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greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Cooking ahead and freezing.

Suasoria · Chanel

I'm not a big one for freezing. When I cook a mess of something, like soup or chili, if it's good, we keep eating it happily as long as it holds out. When it's not so good, and we don't want to finish it, freezing it doesn't seem all that fruitful. It won't improve in the freezer.

That said, I generally use plastic containers that I've saved from things like salsa or hummus or margarine. Sometimes even the takeout places give you decent containers that will do fine in the freezer.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

Depending on what it is, I use tupperware or even just put it in a freezer bag! If you freeze stuff flat in a freezer bag (kind of spread out), once its frozen you can tip it up vertically and it takes up less space too. Either can be washed and reused. Chinese coup containers work pretty well too.