If you happen to grow a lot of your own produce with your own fruit, vegetable, or herbal garden there is often a plethora of extra’s at the peak end of grow season.
When it comes to fruits and using them fresh it’s often quite enjoyable to use them right away after they’re picked for the fresh taste. If you want to experience and taste more produce throughout the year, it’s a good idea to flash-freeze some of your fruits from local farmer’s markets or your own garden as a way to preserve nutrients and vitamins.
The best way to follow through with this process is to use a baking sheet or tray and place your fruits on this tray inside a freezer and space the fruits apart away from each other. Afterwards you should have frozen fruits that could be stored in a container or placed in freezer bags.
Use a marker and label the fruits and the date they were picked or frozen in the freezer. As a result you should have flash frozen fruits that you can use during the upcoming year for nutritious smoothie recipe’s.
Some key things to remember are as follows:
- Wash your fruits and peel the skin off
- Cut out any bruises or ugly spots
- If you have large fruits cut it up smaller so it is more bite sized, so it will blend and break down easier after freezing
- Make sure to space fruits apart when first placing in the freezer on a tray
- Same protocol can be taken with garden herbs
Remember you don’t have to waste extra fruits or keep them in the refrigerator for an extensive amount of time. You can use the strategy of flash-freezing and make yourself high-quality nutritious fruit based smoothies or dessert type recipe’s.
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