You Only Need These 6 Frozen Foods to Survive Hard Times (All Under $5 at Walmart)

📖 My mother's whole way of running a house is written down in one book, The Old Mexican Way: https://oldmexicanway.com And before anybody feels bad: none of this is your fault. Most of us were taught the freezer is for ice cream and a frozen brick nobody remembers buying. Nobody told you it is a second cupboard. The 6, counting down: 6. Las calabacitas: the zucchini, 83 cents. One minute in boiling water first, or it comes back a wet sponge 5. Las manzanas: a 3 lb bag, about $3. Freeze them as kits with piloncillo and canela, and in December they are two dozen empanadas 4. Los huevos: $1.67 a dozen. Never in the shell. The muffin tin method, and the January egg price stops being your problem 3. Los pimientos y la cebolla: the frozen pepper and onion blend, $2.84. The answer to the tired night 2. El queso: the block, $1.87, never the bag. Grate it on Sunday and freeze it flat 1. La mantequilla: the butter, $3.06. Not the healthiest thing on the list. It wins for a different reason One of each is about $13.50 at Walmart this week. The four words that make all six work: press the air out. Flat bags, stacked like books, with the date on every one, because the freezer has no memory, and neither do we. Safety, said plainly: thaw in the refrigerator, never on the counter. Frozen eggs get cooked all the way through. Keep the freezer at zero degrees. If the power went out and you do not know for how long, when in doubt, it goes. Prices are what Walmart showed this week, and some were on rollback. Your store may be a little different. The four words do not change.