Like some kind of twisted foodie I take pictures of veggies and fruit in all sorts of states, from naked to streaking and now empty. Then I expoit them by writing about them and giving them funny names. I’m sorry. I’m weak. Bananas are not immune when I’m around, either.
I love to discover new ways to save money esspecially on food. Today it’s banana specific, but works with peaches too. Back when I was a nanny baking these yummy kid pleasing waffles, I learned you could freeze bananas. That was just after I opened their frig and a frozen banana fell out. I screamed, said ewwwwwe and was heading for the trash can when I was stopped by Lynn, the lady of the house. Turned out when their bananas got over ripe she would throw them into the freezer. Just like that, no baggie, no nothing; just naked freezing to be saved for baking banana bread.
On the day you bake banana bread just set them out to thaw (it doesn’t take long.) Or you can throw them into the microwave for a couple minutes and your ready to make them empty. Just cut off the end and the bananas slip out like a theif in the night. What is surprising about this is, they aren’t brown, they’re perfect, and that funny tasting thingy on the end stays in the peel, leaving you with an empty banana.
Currently I have 32 bananas in my freezer, leftovers from banana sales and poor little fruit that just didn’t get eaten up. I could make enough banana bread to feed a small army. Or give everyone I know a some banana bread for Christmas. Don’t you know, it’s the new fruit cake?
How do you save money buying fresh fruit?
Simply,
Sis
Tags: freezing bananas, freezing fruit, saving money by buying fresh fruit, Simple Eats
I LOVE that last pic of the frozen bananas on the table. Seems like nearly everything is in focus, all at once. That’s really cool. Oh, and I love a good banana bread recipe. Applesauce…that’s a really good idea. Can’t wait to try it. Nana’s don’t last long enough in my house to get brown, but I do have 3-4, I think.
You know this is such a great idea. I never thought about freezing bananas. I have a bunch that either need to be eaten or made into bread or something before they go bad and I am just way too tired to bake anything today so into the freezer they go. Thanks for the tip!
Would it be ok if I threw each banana into one of those small paper bags? It doesn’t seem sanitary the other way.