Questions about freezing canned goods

[Elizabeth]

Can you freeze canned goods? Like buy a very large can of something (like
tomato paste, sauce and diced or applesauce) and separate it into portions
and refreeze them? I am tightwadding and I was wondering if I can buy my
veggies and stuff that way and refreeze them.

Liz

[zxcvbob]

Elizabeth wrote:
>
> Can you freeze canned goods?

Yes.

> Like buy a very large can of something (like
> tomato paste, sauce and diced or applesauce) and separate it into portions
> and refreeze them? I am tightwadding and I was wondering if I can buy my
> veggies and stuff that way and refreeze them.

Especially tomato paste, spaghetti sauce, and stuff like that. I dunno
about canned green beans, etc. Try it and see; it won't hurt anything,
but the quality may suffer.

I have a *big* can of Chinese hoisin sauce in my freezer with a coffee
can lid on it. I've been working on that can for about 5 years now...

Best regards,
Bob

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In article <YT4da.41451$fb5....@fe03.atl2.webusenet.com>, "Elizabeth"
<eliza...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Sure -- especially the tomato saucey things. I don't think I'd do
previously-canned veggies. No reason other than it doesn't sound very
appealing to me. MAYBE if they were absolutely thawed before heating,
so no breaking up of a frozen brick was required in the heating.
They're mushy to start with and I wouldn't want to mess around with them
in a pan any more than necessary. JMO.
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