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Crumble for the freezer, sized for your family

It’s 6pm, the kids are hungry, and tonight’s dinner is already made. You cooked the apple crumble in one big batch and froze it in containers, one dinner to each. Move a container to the fridge the night before, and that’s dinner.

Makes
8 portions
On the night
Nothing to cook
A portion
About 515 kcal
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Crumble

How to make it

Make it all ahead for the freezer.

Apple crumble

Make ahead and freeze

Ingredients for 8 portions

Method

Filling

  1. Peel, quarter and core bramley apple, then slice 5 mm thick.
  2. Spread the apples in your containers, one meal to each, and press them down flat.
  3. Sprinkle over golden caster sugar.

Crumble

  1. Mix plain flour and golden caster sugar in a large bowl.
  2. Dice salted butter and rub it into the flour with your fingertips until it looks like breadcrumbs.
  3. Scatter the crumble evenly over the apples.

To eat now

  1. Preheat the oven to 170°C fan.
  2. Bake for 40 minutes until the top is golden brown and the apples are bubbling at the edges.
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Nutrition

Per portion, apple crumble
Energy
515 kcal
Fat
21.3g
Carbohydrate
74.9g
Protein
4.7g
Nutrition details
Energy
515 kcal
Fat
21.3g
of which saturates
13.3g
Carbohydrate
74.9g
of which sugars
45.9g
Fibre
3.4g
Protein
4.7g
Salt
0.49g

Estimated from ingredient data.

How we’d cook it, not advice. We don’t check recipes for allergens, and ingredients vary by brand, so check the label on everything you use. Prepare and cook food the way the Food Standards Agency says. Allergens and food safety

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Make ahead and freeze

How it comes together

Ready for the freezer

  1. Make the apple crumble

  2. Let it cool.

    “cool any warm dishes before putting them in your freezer”, says the Food Standards Agency.

  3. Apple crumble. Put the lid on the container.

  4. Label each container with the dish and the date.

No special kit. The apple crumble works best in foil trays with lids. Any freezer-safe container does the job too.

Ready to eat

  1. The night before, move the apple crumble to the fridge.

    “the safest way to defrost food is in the fridge overnight”, says the Food Standards Agency.

  2. Apple crumble. Heat it in the oven until it’s steaming hot all the way through and golden.

    “it is important that food is cooked to steaming hot throughout, rather than warmed”, says the Food Standards Agency.

Nomstash plans the rest

  • Everything from one shop

    The food and the foil trays with lids on one shopping list, with an estimated cost before you go.

  • Sized for your family

    Say who’s eating and every container holds the right amount, growing as the children do.

  • No more UFOs

    Unidentified Frozen Objects, as the Food Standards Agency calls them. Each container says what’s inside and the day you made it.

  • A reminder the night before

    Nomstash tells you which container to move to the fridge for tomorrow’s dinner.

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Make it a cook day

Add two or three more dishes to the same afternoon, and one shop covers the lot.

Batch cooking: cook once, eat all month

Freezing and defrosting safely

The rest of the Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words, is in our freezing and defrosting guide.

Sources

  1. Food Standards Agency How to chill, freeze and defrost food safely gov.uk
  2. Food Standards Agency Cooking your food gov.uk

Last checked . Each quotation on this page was read against the page it links to.

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