In the past weeks, I was very happy I could just pull something out of the freezer because I was so busy.
My freezer does contain some things I bought: peas, for example, are best bought frozen. They have a very short season, if they're available fresh at all. I generally keep some frozen berries as well for a quick dessert. But mostly, the freezer is a leftover repository.
I've noticed that if I put leftovers just into the fridge, it only delays their being thrown out for a few days. I simply don't eat them before they perish, nor does my family. So I have made a habit of partitioning off any leftovers into portions and freezing them the day they were cooked. I can then pull them out on days when I don't have time to cook.
There is one exception, though: intentional leftovers. Sometimes, it saves time to cook larger portions of something and use them the next day or one day later for something else.
Exemples:
- rice that was a side dish one day become part of a filling for vegetables, or a stir-fry dish, or a burger patty
- boiled potatoes, depending on their type, can be the base of a salad, or get mashed and become gnocchi
- pasta can become the base of a salad, too. And there is a German classic: leftover pasta in the pan with ham and egg scrambled with the whole.
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