Frozen Food

What can I say about frozen food? Why even talk about frozen food? I mean, there's plenty of other, much more interesting things to talk about right? Well, wrong! Frozen food is incredible and if you've read this far, you may as well keep reading. I know, you probably read the description under "Random" and thought to yourself "yeah, this guy sounds like some kind of weirdo, this is the place for me" and I don't blame you. But you're wrong again... for now.

So let's see, frozen food. Well, as I said before, frozen food is incredible, and do you know why? Outside of having something fantastically cold to put your nuts, or your noggin, when they suffer trauma, frozen food is surprisingly cheap, easy to prepare, lasts a long time without going off and is surprisingly nutritious (if you buy the right ones). That's right! I've mainly come to notice this over the last year, not just because my money fluctuates from living like a king to practically licking nutrients from used McDonalds sauce sachets, but because of the availability of stores like Iceland and Picard that only Europe seems to provide. Now can't exactly remember if we have them back in Australia (I like to think we don't as it would be silly trying to keep things so cold with the heat we get and all), but over here these stores are basically isle, after isle, of freezers dedicated to just about any meal or ingredient you want in frozen form. Before I moved, I thought frozen food was just limited to peas and fish fingers! (although I do slightly recall my mum once telling me to improve my diet with other frozen veg) Frozen food is perfect if you're lazy, and money is tight, and you don't feel like slicing and dicing and cooking, etc. Someone also once told me, that due to some laws or something, food, particularly vegetables, has to be frozen within a certain amount of time from when it was obtained in order to maintain dietary value and minimise contamination. Thanks to this bit of information (as if the cheapness and ease of prep wasn't enough) I now shop at Picard all the time and practically look like a popsicle because a frozen goods store is the perfect place to hang out when it only just gets above zero degrees outside during the day. Yesterday night, for dinner, I ate a delicious shrimp and pesto pasta, with calamari rings on the side, and I can do it again tonight with what I've got left over. I wouldn't even have thought of making something like that back home as I'm more of a check-what's-in-the-cupboard-and-add-it-to-pasta kind of guy (ok, I realise that one of the main ingredients in shrimp and pesto pasta is pasta, but come on, who has shrimp just sitting around?). On top of this, back in London I was buying kilos of frozen capsicum (or "peppers" as they call them, the fools) to add some health to my, at times, interesting and random pasta dishes, all for the low price of about a pound. In conclusion, if this post hasn't opened your mind to the prospect of including more frozen stuff on your shopping list, I don't know what will. I'm a professional, you should totally heed my advice!

P.S. I'm not sure if it's just a general rule (*salutes* "General Rule") that everything sold in a frozen goods store has to be cheap, but it certainly seems to appear that way. In Iceland, they even sell lots of non-frozen stuff for ludicrously low prices! I once bought a kilo of Coco Pops, a five-pack of two-minute noodles, washing detergent, milk, bread and a four-pack of Carlsburg pint cans, and it barely even cracked the ten pound mark. What a way to live!