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So I went to the grocery store and spotted bags of bananas on clearance. In total, the bananas came out to $0.12/lb. that’s awesome but what do I do with them?

I know I need to do something that involves freezing them. They’re ripe but not brown/mushy/gross. I’d say I have 1 more day before they started getting really ripe.

I looked up freezing them on the Reynold’s website, but that article seemed more focused on SEO and promoting their parchment paper and zipper bags.

Do any of you recommend a “best” way to freeze them? Ideally, I’d like to use them on-demand in smoothies and buy some time to find a really good banana recipe like maybe a pudding or pie or something.

So I went to the grocery store and spotted bags of bananas on clearance. In total, the bananas came out to $0.12/lb. that’s awesome but what do I do with them? I know I need to do something that involves freezing them. They’re ripe but not brown/mushy/gross. I’d say I have 1 more day before they started getting really ripe. I looked up freezing them on the Reynold’s website, but that article seemed more focused on SEO and promoting their parchment paper and zipper bags. Do any of you recommend a “best” way to freeze them? Ideally, I’d like to use them on-demand in smoothies and buy some time to find a really good banana recipe like maybe a pudding or pie or something.

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[–] [deleted] • 8 pts

IDK about freezing them but you could make banana bread.

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Best idea here. Make some loads of banana bread and give the extra to neighbors. Everyone loves banana bread, except commies.

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Really? I figured commies would especially love it since A) it's free and B) it'll help with their starvation

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If you peel them before you freeze them it works fine.

I just put them in a food prep container. Yeah you might get frost but really that shouldn't change much

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I recommend peeling before freezing. It's kinda messy / a pain to peel after freezing.

Foezen bananas are good for smoothies, banana bread, etx

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I put them in the freezer without peeling.

You have to cut the skin off later, but you also don't have to do any prep (peeling, bagging) before freezing them. Just toss the fuckers in.

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You animal!

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I had an “automatic” bread maker but the belt broke then I broke it trying to take it apart. Maybe I’ll buy another one. Might be a good weekend to hit the thrift stores.

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Do it the old fashioned way, in a bread tin in the oven. Banana bread is easy. You get more of the delicious caramelized crust on the bottom that way. Banana bread is easily frozen too.

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I’ll need to buy a banana tin. I looked up recipes not for bread machine. Seems easy enough and I don’t mind running the oven on cold days.

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You can make several hours of physical comedy videos. Enjoy.

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Banana chips

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Oh yeah! I have a food dehydrator. I stopped using it after beef prices went through the roof and I can rarely find a clearance roast anymore.

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Controversial opinion, but I definitely like bananas with a little salt and black pepper.

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It wouldn’t hurt to try it on some of them.

Maybe 15 years ago my ex wife was putting peanuts in her Diet Coke. I thought that was something a crazy person would do. In secret, I tried it myself. Damn good!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDtcRnIhzi8 Banana Brandy, Making Ugandan Waragi (Moonshine)

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I was going to suggest this too.

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Peel them and freeze them. Make killer smoothies, cakes- chocolate dipped bananas, you name it. I just put them in a ziploc and freeze them. They will darken however over time but are completely edible.

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I’m going to ask the produce people if this is something they normally do. One hell of a deal. I’ve never seen this store put out something like this, but I’ve only lived here a couple months. This really will come in handy helping my dad get calories in. He doesn’t have much of an appetite but will drink down protein shakes with peanut butter and banana (and a little bit of ice cream).

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Great idea. Also consider egg white powder or other types of high quality easily digestible protein powders that will add good food value and calories. If he likes chocolate you can use those chocolate milk mixes (I use the ghiardelli hot chocolate mix) and make an awesome chocolate shake.

Check your grocery store's frozen food section for frozen fruits. These also can be used to make really good high food quality shakes; some people actually eat them out of hand frozen. Make fruit compotes with them and serve over a piece of cake or yogurts-

Good on you for taking care of your dad, best wishes for his good health.

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If the grocery has a juice or smoothie bar, they will peel, slice and freeze excess ripe bananas to use later for smoothies.

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I was a store manager for a smoothie chain way back in the day. We were peeling dark ass bananas non-stop.

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Cut them up into small pieces and put those into a freezer bag. Once frozen, throw some into a blender and voila: one ingredient ice cream.

I have a Vitamix that cam stamp the food down into the blade, I don't know how well this will work with just a regular old blender.

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Smash them up... Add sugar and water so it is a loose slurry then pitch in strong brewers yeast. Ferment it, press the juice out and let it settle for a few months and drink!

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Slice them 1/8 thick and use a food dehydrator. Over-ripe bananas make the best banana chips. They keep forever and are a great snack, especially for hiking/backpacking (and also for prepping).

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Puree the bananas and make banana ice cream.

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I went at some frozen ones woth a fork and ate them like a slushie. Really good.

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You have 3 choices IMO.

  1. You peel and cut them up and freeze them (easy as hell, use whatever you want from glass to plastic, they last many years).

  2. Banana popsicles. I feed my kids these instead of buying frozen treats and they love them. Just buy popsicle sticks, peel them, shove a stick in, and freeze. When you get them out you can add toppings if preferred (eg. chocolate or whipped cream) or just eat them plain. These also last a long long time.

  3. Just make some sweet banana bread. Add chocolate or nuts if you're into that. You can also freeze the banana bread (it tends to get a little soggy if left too long), and you can also make really nice banana bread french toast with it, straight out of the freezer.

I guess option four is just eat a pure Banana diet until you get awful diarrhea. mmmmm.

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