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My mother in law said frozen veggies beat fresh and she was right
She always told me to keep a bag of frozen mixed vegetables around for cheap meals, but I thought fresh was always better and cheaper if you shopped sales. Last month I tried her trick with a $1.29 bag of frozen peas and carrots in a pasta dish, and honestly it tasted just as good and took way less time. Now I'm wondering if I've been wasting money on fresh stuff that goes bad in 3 days. Has anyone else switched sides on this argument?
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rowan_hunt81mo ago
That goes bad in 3 days" is exactly why I switched too. I used to be one of those people who turned my nose up at frozen veggies and swore fresh was the only way, mostly because my mom raised me that way. Then I started paying attention to how much I was tossing in the trash every week, and it hit me that fresh is only cheaper if you actually eat all of it. Frozen gets picked and frozen fast so it holds onto most of its nutrients, sometimes even more than the fresh stuff that sat on a truck for a week. The texture is the one real trade off, so I still buy fresh for stuff I'm eating raw like salads. For cooking though, soups, stir fry, pasta, casseroles, frozen wins almost every time and I'm not going back.
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