You can eat the chips right out of the freezer, crunchy and taste great. I never freeze an open bag though, they might get soggy.

I freeze almost anything as well. Lots of single portion servings, which are a nice timesaver.

We don't have a dedicated freezer, so there never is sufficient room to keep many things in there for too long a term. I freeze broth and pasta sauces, lasagna, meats, vegetables, lemon & lime juice, orange zest, and the some pulp of various formerly dried chili peppers to quickly zip up foods. And a few pieces of candy and some cookies, because IMO those taste better "stiff', as Thumper would say.

I've never thought about freezing cheese, milk or juice! I guess I should when it goes on sale.

I freeze basic stuff like meats, breads (including naan & flatbreads), muffins, cookies, etc.

I have the usual dinner-type items in the freezer. The only homemade things are chili, soups and spaghetti sauce. Oh yeah, There is an entire freezer with a whole bison in it.

My FoodSaver is about the 3-4th one I've had... each from a yard sale or thrift store and each an up-grade from the one before. Most days, cooking for ONE... not the easiest thing to do. Short of buying shrimp or scallops by the number instead of lb (or part of lb), chicken/beef/pork, etc. all come in packages WAY to big for 1-2 servings. When I find a good deal, I just repackage and vac seal. Sure it takes a little time, but once PROPERLY sealed, freezer burn becomes non-existent. I have the attachment that lets you seal dry items in mason jars. NOT for things that would need to be canned/frozen for storage... dry stuff like rice, lentils, beans, etc. You don't need the ring; just the lid. Jars can be gently opened and resealed with same lid... as long as not bent. Have found many of the FS canisters... NOT impressed... they don't keep a seal very well at all.

Our freezer is relatively small, so I freeze very little. Because we don't use A/C, I keep items that might go rancid from summer heat, like nuts, in the freezer. I also keep small containers of herbs, chopped garlic, chicken broth and mascarpone in the freezer. I use the small containers made for home-made baby food to portion things like the mascarpone and chicken broth. They thaw quickly and hold just the right amount for some of the recipes I make.

I don't freeze much that doesn't come from the store already frozen. Except bananas. I like waiting for a banana to get maybe 1/2 covered with brown spots, then I stick it in the freezer. To make banana muffins, I microwave the frozen banana and it squishes out of the skin practically pre-mashed -- very handy! Oh, I also make alot of chicken stock from the bones of chickens we roast. That's nice to have in the freezer. Oh, and butter. When it's on sale, I stock up.

I don't have a dedicated freezer either... and I don't freeze staples. But I freeze almost all left overs... but quit freezing cooked potatoes. Really don't like them heated back up.

Moni

lol..we make mashed out of a box....but we too, are planned leftover eaters... right now have a raw frozen turkey bought on sale, after Christmas, and my normal whole pork loin (raw) will cook it whole then portion out and freeze the cooked meat. same for burger, ect...oh we have a small chest freezer and of course the fridge (bottom and love it)

LOL Years and years ago I froze the chips too mainly to keep me out of them, now just don't buy.....I cook ahead and freeze in portions for two. I freeze lots, pie crusts disks for a two crust pie, cookies, summer fruits, breads lots of bread, sale items, meats wrapped portions for two, bacon wrapped in pound pkgs. We have two freezers a large one for meats and vegetables, a smaller one for the sweets, baked goods and summer fresh fruits. Vacuum Sealer is our saver.

I can usually go to freezer put a decent meal together in 45 minutes plus. We usually eat at home. Eating out is special, restaurant where we go in they sit us, and wait on me.

Left over stuff for future meals, spaghetti sauce, and soup.

Homemade soups, chili, spaghitti sauce, sloppy joe, ham bbq, waffles. Stuff I usually make a lot of so I have it for the freezer. I only have one small chest freezer now since one died and the one on the frig. with 5 of us I dont have much left overs on a normal day. LOL. I do like to have things I can pull out for a quick meal since I never know what will unexpectedly happen around here.

We have 3 freezers. One is just for items made with grains. Flour cornbread mix, cornmeal, cake mixes, breads, pastas, etc. Another is fruits and veggies, We grow some of our own berries and veggies, and food saver bag them. A lot we get from local farmers, and a community garden here next to our little farm.The other is for meats and fish.. What doesn't come pressure wrapped, we food saver it. We freeze homemade chili, pasta sauce, tomatoes, sliced green tomatoes for frying, and whatever we happen to get an abundance of. We were given over 100 lbs of potatoes one year, an so I cooked and mashed them using just half of the milk I normally do. When I defrosted each container, I whipped them up with butter an some more milk, and voila, just like fresh.

I bake ahead and freeze cake layers, muffins, quick breads and cookies. I also fry up ground beef with various seasonings etc. and freeze for adding to sauces or casseroles for quick meals. I make ground beef patties for the freezer and freeze hot dogs and sausage. I will freeze pork and chicken but other than ground beef, flank steak or blade roasts I don't like to freeze red meat.

I freeze very little -- mostly commercial frozen meat, vegetables and fruit because I don't think a home freezer freezes food as well and the taste is "off". I do freeze bread because it takes us a long time to go through a loaf and I've thrown away a lot of bread.

We have a standalone freezer in the kitchen but it's half empty. There's nothing in it but purchased frozen food and the occasional remainder of a loaf of bread on hand if we're leaving on a trip. We don't bake much, cook ahead or cook quantities beyond a reasonable amount to eat while still fresh.

Commercially fast frozen food is okay for some things but to me, home frozen foods lose both texture and flavor. A good selection of grocery stores are nearby, I always prefer to make a trip to have something fresh and, often, seasonal.

Bread, frozen veggies, Suster Schubert rolls, left over parts of roast chicken, and nuts to keep them fresh. I prefer to shop more often and gave fresh food, but did find a great buy on flash frozen sea scallops and bought a bag. Cooked 3 tonight fir dinner -sautéed with a sauce of capers, shallots, lemon juice, browned butter, deglazed with dry vermouth. Fabulous with fresh asparagus and took about 15 minutes to make!

Would never occur to me to freeze crackers or chips. The use by date is always months ahead so really no need to. Freezing cheese is a bit problematic because freezing makes the cheese crumbly. If you want the cheese to keep for a while and be sliceable, wipe it with a little vinegar once a week and keep it in the refrigerator.

In addition to what others have mentioned, I also freeze leftover cooked rice and noodles that I serve with chilies and chicken noodle soup. This makes a quick meal even quicker! Also, tomato paste is also freezable -I usually separate in 1 T dollops.

Leftover anything if I get tired of eating it. All flour goes in the freezer until ready for use. Cornmeal lives in the freezer. Milk. We don't use milk except for cooking, so I divide a gallon up into 2-cup portions and freeze. Coffee when it's on super sale. Right now my chest freezer has a couple of turkeys. My friend loves turkey and buys it when it's on sale at the holidays. She stores them in my freezer, which is fine since it helps fill it up. Shredded cheese, since it gets used in cooking the texture doesn't matter. I don't freeze block cheese.

It occurred to me the other day that our chest freezer was purchased with wedding money, which will be 30 years in a couple of months. Not bad, I think it was a few hundred dollars then.

I don't buy chips or crackers so there'd be no point in freezing them. I don't freeze any veggie that is better crunchy, as veggies will go soft in there. I do freeze the few loaves of bread I buy. Since I would never get through one before it gets stale. Leftover meals and soups will get frozen. Meats and seafoods, too. Most block cheese, no, Most of the types turn crumbly. Other than ice cream (which would go there anyways) I don't tend to purchase desserts, so no need to freeze those either.

When I haven't canned home made tomato sauce, I've frozen it.

My 17 cu. ft.chest freezer was purchased 58 years ago, when I had seven kids at home! It sits out in my unheated garage and just keeps ticking along. I keep left overs of soup, vacuum wrapped cheese, in season fruit. Right now I have stuffed peppers calling to me. Love opening a container of soup to enjoy again. I only freeze things that were very good freshly cooked, so I can love them again. Lots of empty space in it, of course, but that's OK....... have a large bottom freezer on my fridge, so that is usually over-crowded until I decide to move some out to the big freezer.

Lots of empty space in it, of course,

Just a little hint. When our freezers get empty space in them, but not enough to combine into another freezer, we freeze milk jugs filled with water, It keeps it from running so much thus saving a bit of power, plus in a power outage, stuff stays frozen longer.

I tend to stock up on things if I find a great sale (I watch ads pretty closely, so I know what a "regular" sale price is and if it occurs frequently enough to not need to buy more than a few). Shredded cheese, for example, or butter or frozen vegetables or crescent rolls or post holiday turkey. Sometimes items that the local store is discontinuing and has marked down (like the Spanish potato omelets from the "Taste of Spain" promotion). I freeze all kinds of meat & poultry (I buy my fish frozen too); like so many of you do, I repackage it into single serving or single meal portions. Pine nuts, ginger root, half a recipe of cake batter left over. And several pumpkins, roasted, cubed and packed into freezer bags to last me all year.

I don't do that much vegetable gardening but this year I had a great crop of roma tomatoes and froze them whole. In fact I got some out tonight and roasted it to eat with spaghetti squash.

Right now in my freezer: blueberries, brown sugar, 2 loafs of black Forest bread, 1 lb hamburger, 1 lb sausage, 6 croissant egg 'a muffins, Grated cheese, popsicles, limes, lemons, wheat flour, walnuts

Limes and lemons? Do you freeze them whole? What happens to the texture as they thaw?

I am a freezer convert for unusual things. Seems with Google you can freeze anything! We shop once a month and then each week we buy produce. I like it and we freeze a lot

No dedicated freezer here, either. I freeze rhubarb (from the garden) in portions for rhubarb crisp, pumpkin puree for the pets ( soup & pumpkin loaf for me), pesto in individual servings. Dishes such as baked beans, chili & stew (that are nice made in larger quantities) for convenience..

If I had a freezer, I would keep bird seed and pet food in it.