Writing yesterday’s post got me thinking about another tool that I find useful for food storage: white plastic lids for canning jars. I love these lids. For one thing, they are much more convenient for capping jars than the two-part canning lids. I know that that system is necessary for canning, but I mostly use my glass jars to store non-canned foods so I don’t like having to deal with the two-part lids.

Secondly, unlike most two-part canning lids, these white plastic lids do not contain BPA. I go out of my way to avoid BPA in the foods that we buy so it makes no sense to me to store my foods in something that may leech BPA.…

Frozen taco beef

On nights that I don’t have the time or the inclination to make a more involved dinner, I really enjoy the convenience of being able to pull pre-made foods out of the freezer. One of my favorite things to have in the freezer is cooked ground beef. Cooking two pounds of beef is nearly as easy as cooking just one pound or less, so I often cook a lot of meat at once to stock up for future meals. Since we are only a family of two, however, I have to make sure that I freeze the beef in such a way that it’s easy to defrost only 1/3 to 1/2 pound at a time for meals.…