Feast Your Eyes: Frozen veggies in plastic water bottles

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Jul 1st 2008 @ 8:01AM

frozen onions and corn in plastic water bottles

This picture isn't quite as delectable as some of the other images I regularly post in this space. However, it's such a great idea that when I saw it, I thought to myself, "That's just the sort of thing I have to share with the world of Slashfood readers."

From Biggie of Lunch in a Box, her image shows how she uses plastic water bottles to store frozen veggies like corn, peas and chopped onions. It makes it really easy to pour out a small amount, which is perfect for those times when you are pulling together meals for one. This not only works well for the prepacked frozen veggies that you buy, also for the veggies you freeze yourself. I imagine that the wider mouth bottles would work really well for frozen berries (great for when you make smoothies).

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Filed Under: Feast Your Eyes
Tags: biggie, Feast Your Eyes, FeastYourEyes, food storage, FoodStorage, lunch in a box, LunchInABox, reusing water bottles, ReusingWaterBottles

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7-01-2008 @8:17AM Big John said... Neat way to recycle and keep your fridge organized!
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7-01-2008 @8:17AM Big John said... Neat way to recycle and keep your fridge organized!
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7-01-2008 @9:25AM Jaimie said... It's cool... but, it should have been a 'tip of the day' or something. This is clearly NOT something you can 'feast your eyes' on. What's the point of organizing posts under different features unless it's consistent?
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7-01-2008 @9:59AM Linda said... I remember when my parents first got electricity and a freezer, in the latter part of the seventies..my Mom used to freeze her cherries in the large pop bottles..she was always recycling stuff...
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7-01-2008 @11:46AM Alex Falk said... Before someone comments on BPA exposure, let me just say that testing has determined that you would need to eat or drink 1300 pounds of food of drink EVERY DAY for the rest of your life just to get close to the harmful levels.

As for the storage part, the mouth is too small, especially when you get a slight thaw/refreeze cycle and it turns into a brick of frozen veggies.
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7-01-2008 @2:21PM Misca said... I think this is going right up there with my stolen "put unused egg whites into ice cube trays for later egg white needs" from Alto brown.

And leading to some fast and yummy omelets.
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7-01-2008 @3:43PM Karen said... This is a dumb idea. What is wrong with just dispensing from the original container? And they would all stick together and you'd never get them out.

Pfft!
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7-03-2008 @5:45AM Berkana said... If you plan on using this method for dispensing berries, make sure you freeze the berries on a sheet of wax paper, separated from every other berry, before putting them into the bottles. If you just load the bottle with berries and freeze them, they'll stick together into one unusable frozen mass.

As for BPA exposure, the plastic to worry about is polycarbonate/Lexan, the kind in Nalgene bottles, not the bottles shown in the picture, which are PET bottles.
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7-09-2008 @1:17PM kim said... Seems inefficient to me. When you use the bag veggies come in, you can roll it up as you use them so it takes up less space in the freezer. Can't do that with bottles.
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