I thought I had a gazillion tomatoes to deal with until I got them all prepped and into the freezer bags. Or bag. Turns out that I have about half of a gallon sized Ziploc filled up. There are still a lot of those green ‘maters in the garden, but as or right now…I have a half a bag filled.
But I am super excited for that day in December that I am making soup and need a SINGLE CAN of tomatoes. I won’t even have to go to the grocery store. I’ll just reach into the back of my freezer, thankyouverymuch.
Eighty-nine cents saved.
Boom.
Oh man, I bet homemade tomato soup from the Unger house will be amazing this winter!!
Hahahah! Dude, I need to do that with my lil’ cherry babies.
Katie, if you ever have the chance to join a CSA farm, you’ll hopefully get a chance to do a pick-your-own day for tomatoes like I did – in a mere 40 minutes I had over 100 pounds of tomatoes! I froze 2/3 of them (67 pints of tomatoes which is like 67 of the smaller sized cans!), and I made sauce from the 1/3 that were plum tomatoes. I should be set for the full winter without ever having to buy, and since I picked them myself at the farm, there was no additional charge.
Wow Michele! Which one do you belong to? I need to look into it FOR sure.
Awesome idea for those extra tomatoes. Although in our house we’re so tomato crazy that extra rarely happens.
Funny thing is, I don’t even like tomatoes. Except in soup. Or sun dried.
Thanks for sharing this tip! I was wondering about this because I like to make my own marinara sauce, and I would like to get some tomatoes from the farmers market while they’re still cheap and freeze them.
You will be happy you saved that $1 in December! Just call yourself the Pioneer Woman:)
Haha, seriously. Meeker and I were laughing about it all day yesterday. I’m pretty much a homesteader.
Good idea. Actually, I don’t know what to do with too many of tomatoes I had from my CSA farmer !
Haha, kind of related story: My parents’ garden was overflowing with tomatoes, so I went over and set out to make tomato sauce. I went to town on like a dozen tomatoes…. They produced 2 cups of sauce. Womp womp.
Right on! Unfortunately my one tomato plant barely yields any tomatoes, but this makes me want to stock up at the farmers market without worrying that any will spoil if I don’t use them fast enough.
My friend did a guest post on my blog last month about “canning” tomatoes and how simple it is- but even then…. I don’t see myself doing it. Freezing is probably easier.
boom!
Love the pics! I wish I had a garen full of tomatoes….maybe next year.
Hahaha – I just love you. Put that 89 cents away – we need to save it for our communal house purchase!
Great idea. What do you do with bell peppers?
Good question! Hah. My guess would be to roast them, peel the skins off, and freeze them like that.
Thanks! I may have to try it. I’m up to my eyeballs in peppers of every shape, size and color.
I am totally thinking to myself…is all that trouble with 89 cents…
But I’m canning tomatoes next week, so apparently, yes.
I was laughing at myself the entire way though…just saying this is SO not worth it. But it was fun and I hope to have more before winter!
That is fantastic. Lordy, I want a garden (although I’m not sure how green my thumb is…).
happy Friday, friend!
Why didn’t I think of that?! Such a smart idea. I’ll have to remember that for next tomato season!