Why You Should Fill Your Freezer With Frozen Veggies

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Frozen veggies sometimes get a bad rep and for no good reason. Inexpensive, convenient, and packed with goodness, eating frozen veggies is a fantastic way to up your intake of essential nutrients. From spinach to sprouts and broad beans to bell peppers, fill your freezer with frozen veggies and your meals will be bursting with color, flavor, and nourishing yumminess every day.

Nutrients

Veggies are flash-frozen just hours after being harvested at the peak of ripeness (and nutrient density). This effectively preserves their nutritional profile, locking in all of those delicious vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients. In fact, “fresh” veggies in the supermarket lose a bunch of nutrients in transit and when sitting on the shelf, so some frozen veggies contain even MORE goodness than their fresh counterparts!

Convenience

Having a well-stocked stash of frozen veggies means your meals will never lack color or goodness, even if you haven’t managed to make a trip to the grocery store. Plus, you don’t have to worry about using them up before they go bad, or spending hours chopping! We love adding frozen spinach to soups, frozen edamame or sweetcorn to stir-fries, or serving peas as a pop of green alongside a pot roast or pie.

Variety

Fresh veggies taste best when they’re in season. Eating seasonally is wonderful but it’s not always doable. Frozen veggies are always harvested and frozen when in season so you can enjoy them all year round. This means you don’t need to rely on unsustainable foreign imports when your favorite veggies are out of season.