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Foods to freeze you never knew you could

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I saved hundreds of dollars on groceries by freezing these foods.

Unfortunately, Rona has the most of us coupon clipping, only buying sale foods, or buying in bulk from Costco only to be eating the same things over and over again. I did some research and played around with freezing various food items and came up with a list of food items you never knew you could freeze. These items tasted just as good as the day I put them in the freezer. Also, side note, pre-corona we ate mostly organic non-GMO in our house so this was definitely a challenge. 
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Stay At Home & Brunch

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Don’t let being stuck at home stop you from your brunch needs. Brunch is a very important food group to us New Yorkers and we just won’t give it up. I hosted a stay at home brunch for my family with all of our favorites and it was eggcellent.

From our local bagel store we ordered two dozen assorted bagel flavors. From Costco, you can purchase a ton of lox for $17.00 and it is delicious. We love to spread a bagel with cream cheese, add the lox and top it with tomatoes, onions and capers. Trust me, its everything.

We also had a fruit spread, deviled eggs, banana bread and of course my famous Bloody Mary bar.

This time for my Bloody Mary bar, we had mini peppers that we cut the bottoms of and hung them over the glass, lemons and lime (one of each in your drink makes a difference, small sweet pickles (cuts the spice), celery, red chili flakes and of course bacon. I mixed this in with some Tito’s vodka and our favorite Bloody Mary mix. You can make your own Bloody Mary Mix but this is honestly easier and cheaper. We like the 5 Pepper mix because its spicy and we like our Mary’s with extra heat.

Cheers!

Stay safe everyone!

Hugs and Quiches,

The Hammer’s

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