freezing extra food safely

My wide range of plastic boxes is in an even bigger plastic box on a shelf just above my head - so they don't all fall out when I open the cupboard door.

[smug icon] that's why mine are in a bottom cupboard. I have recycled Chinese takeaway containers for freezing food ever since I can remember, with no ill effects.

Off now to re-dye my hair, the blue is starting to show through again !

The main problem with the plastic boxes is that they all fall out on top of your head when you open the cupboard door.

Grannyknot - it's been mentioned before that we could have a get together where we marry lids and boxes.

I make and freeze stuff for DS1 and NEVER get the boxes back until I've bought a new load then it all goes winging it's way home. Ive been using Tupperware since I got married but I'm not sure that any of it survived this long. I hate those poly bags with a passion - they seem so wasteful - but I do like the pyrex dishes with lids although they take up even more room!

Yes I agree re glass. Water expands when frozen. Most food is a high % water. Glass does not expand - it cracks.
There is a lot of alarmist nonsense about plastic containers etc on the Internet. It stems from a school project some years ago in which a girl boiled cling film in oil for some time and showed that some chemicals were released. She won a prize and many people picked up the story and a panic was born.
I just freeze stuff in any cheap plastic containers with lids that I have in the cupboard.

The cheap packs of plastic boxes from somewhere like Wilkos are good and cheap enough to throw out if you are concerned. (In the recycling bin I should add of course!!)

Perhaps glass shatters if the contents expand when freezing (like my bottle of elderflower presse which I tried to chill quickly in the freezer and forgot)

I have re-used the plastic containers more than once but never re-heat in them. I do like the Pyrex square dishes with plastic lids (again, remove the lids before heating)

I would be more concerned about microwaving the plastic containers than freezing food in them.

Oh my Tupperware type containers are all new anyway, because I'm forever losing them, or someone carries them off, or I can't find the lid!!

judi I have been wondering about my old Tupperware too, which dates back to the 70s and 80s.

The worry concerns Bisphenol A, or BPA, a constituent of some plastics.
All Tupperware made since 2010 is BPA-free, ie older Tupperware isn't.
Whether it presents a real risk to health is another matter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects

I'm not going to chuck out stuff in my freezer, but I think I might replace the Tupperware.

Don't chuck out stuff you've already frozen, but when next you cook extra just use freezer bags as Grannyknot suggests.

Judi, welcome if you're new.

I freeze in glass, and in plastic (or whatever it is made of, but think Tupperware) and have done all my life and so far no one in my family has been poisoned. I can't work out why glass would be bad.

However if you're worried, why don't you only use the freezer bags you can buy from the supermarkets?