supermarket OWN frozen vegetables

i am on my own and use morrisons and iceland, i have a pass for morrisons so i only need to spend £25 pound, i buy frozen veg and fruit and have found they are good, most are frozen in all supermarkets at the peak of freshness, i make a lot of casseroles or slow cooked so it is easier and they sometimes taste better, i have used tesco and found they are good for veg.

Talking about ginger, I buy and freeze root ginger in small pieces. You can take a piece out, grate as much as you want, while still frozen , and tuck it back into the freezer.

Lahlah65

Grr - frozen ginger!!

It's great in stirfries, curries etc.
No more buying and grating pieces of ginger then finding you have to throw half away.
Although I suppose you could grate and freeze your own.

Grr - frozen ginger!!

Thank you Grans - we generally stick to fresh veg (apart from peas and broad beans). But some great ideas here (swede, celeriac, butternut squash) that we’ll definitely try - will save time and my hands. Will look for organic versions though - we do prefer the flavour. And I didn’t even know that organic ginger existed!

I buy frozen sliced mixed peppers, onions, parsnips, chopped ginger, chilli and garlic, and diced sweet potato and butternut squash, because they’re all such a faff to prepare fresh and there’s no peeling, or skin and seeds to dispose of.
I cook peppers and squash for the dogs.

I freeze enough French beans to last the year, dislike frozen broccoli, cauliflower (which doesn’t like me either!), and I don’t like frozen mushrooms or carrots. Petits pois occasionally, potato wedges or chips, and I like frozen mashed potato in easy to portion pieces. I eat far more cooked vegetables this way, and stick to buying fresh salad ingredients.

I mainly shop at Morrison’s with a top-up at Waitrose ( and M&S or Aldi, but not for frozen veg).

Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Petit pois are just as good as Birdseye's but a lot cheaper. Three for two at the moment as well.

Never had any problems with Sainsbury's frozen veg.

I like the Mediterranean veg. which I get from Tesco I also like their broccoli & cauliflower mixed. I find Lidl is very much cheaper with their vegetables and just as good except for these two.

I recommend Waitrose frozen stir-fry veg mix - really useful…

mokryna

I know I am going rogue but the one freeze shop I miss when in the UK is Picard. There are about 900 in France selling top quality food. They also sell some ‘readymade’ food/meals. The difference between them and the UK shops is the variety and choice of fresh frozen fruit/vegetables and not a long line of cabinets full of chips and more chips.

Ocado stock a number of their products mokryna

I always have frozen veg in the freezer and generally buy them from Sainsburys. As it’s my nearest supermarket. They also often have a 3 for two offer. We usually have sweetcorn, spinach, peas and broccoli and sometimes broad beans. I also buy a frozen berry mix. I find them really useful to add to the number of portions of fruit and veg we eat everyday - just by adding them to pasta dishes, soups and so on. The only one of variable quality is their broccoli which sometimes has really thick stalks.

I used to live next to a very large field that grew peas. It was fascinating to watch the huge harvesters and freezer Lorries arrive when it was time. They used to strip the peas and get them frozen in 2 hours!

They must have been full of nutrients as they were preserved so quickly.

They are all much of a muchness.

I buy frozen vege from from a large Sainsbury’s mostly - leeks, soffritto, butternut squash, whole leaf spinach, sweetcorn, broad beans, petit pois mostly.

Silvertwigs

Allira, me too, such a noticeable difference between Birds Eye and even the ‘best supermarket’ ones 🌷

They're all just a bit 'mealy', Silvertwigs.

I know I am going rogue but the one freeze shop I miss when in the UK is Picard. There are about 900 in France selling top quality food. They also sell some ‘readymade’ food/meals. The difference between them and the UK shops is the variety and choice of fresh frozen fruit/vegetables and not a long line of cabinets full of chips and more chips.

Allira, me too, such a noticeable difference between Birds Eye and even the ‘best supermarket’ ones 🌷

Do you have a Co-op near you? Or in Scotland a Scotmid (Co-op) That is another supermarket to choose from.

^I just bought 2xroll out pastry to make flans as they
are typically, flour and (French) butter, from Ocado,
one of the many things we miss about living/shopping
in la Belle France where butter reigns unbeaten^

whyDelilahwhy
Tesco used to do own brand pastry sheets with just flour and Normandy butter and I didn't feel guilty buying them. They stopped selling them and the ones they do now contain palm oil.

woodenspoon thanks, I think you just summed it up really, nothing to choose between them
if I encounter anything really horrid I’ll let you all know

We dont actually buy frozen food apart from frozen veg Mackies ice cream on offer and frozen cherries which are unavailable at the moment
also! turkey drumstick which I use to make winter soup, £2+
at Tesco, a small one to fit the slow cooker, flavour and collagen.

Jaxjacky

These
Allira and ViceVersa

oooohh - good sleuthing Jaxjacky! these are French?
I just bought 2xroll out pastry to make flans as they
are typically, flour and (French) butter, from Ocado,
one of the many things we miss about living/shopping
in la Belle France where butter reigns unbeaten

I’m sure the Tesco? mixed veg packs had little onions in or
was it Morrisons, which always made a casserole seem more authentic somehow, a thoughtful addition anyway.

also,
for pasta lovers,
Ocado have a range of real Italian pastas made with Italian flour, EV olive oils and olives.

Allira we have Ocado maybe once a month and found it to
be head and shoulders above any others, for quality of food especially fresh, packaging, reliability and the lovely pleasant, polite and civilised drivers. They deliver in bags, sorted by content, which are 10p refunded when returned - of course we pay for them initally.
The prices initially made me gasp, but once I was more acclimatised I was able to locate bargains. We have had some lovely items, hard things like kitchen tools, a huge Pyrex roaster/casserole dish Santoku knife, both half price, for eg.
They also deliver for M&S.
I should be on commission.

we have to have deliveries as we do not drive now, nowhere near a choice of supermarket, have no garden or allotment anymore, not even a balcony or window box and
did not realise, how difficult it would be to buy food and goods in a town with a medium Waitrose, small understocked Sainsbury and weekly market, the fruit and vegetable stall is ok but expensive and just one morning a week.
There is a farm shop 5 miles away which sadly does not deliver.

We miss the growing freezing pickling giving away boxes of runner beans/soft fruit in exchange for eggs experience we left behind.
Now we are older, arthritic, we moved to frozen veg, usually from Morrisons, who charge £7 then invariably arrive with half the order so need to change as they are unreliable and expensive!
I’ve read that frozen veg is equally nutritious as fresh and determined to believe this.
Swede, celeriac, especially difficult to cut, spinach not always available fresh, the packs of sweet potato, or carrot and swede already mashed, these are a revelation. Who knew? as they say.

Thank you ladies for your comments and opinions.

We buy them as it is good when you want something ready prepared, saves peeling and chopping. Ours are usually from Waitrose or Tesco and they are all perfectly fine, undistinguisable from each other regarding quality.

We only like Birds Eye peas but I always have frozen beans and cauliflower cheese in and they are Sainsbury's.