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You can freeze diced bell peppers, too! When I find them on sale, I buy a bunch and dice and freeze them, along with onions. Since half of what I cook has one or both, this works very well! Tech tip...place them on a baking sheet and freeze, THEN put into the bags. They are less likely to stick together that way!
me too!!! i like meatloaf hot, but i absolutely love cold meatloaf sandwiches!
another tip: it can be hard to use up a 3 lb bag of onions, just cooking for one or two people. when i buy onions, i buy the 3 lb bag, dice all the onions up, then portion them into snack size zipper bags, and freeze them. when i need onions, i just pull out what i need. no need to thaw them, just pop them in the pan or into the slow cooker, etc. if you need them thawed, put the frozen onions in a microwave dish with lid and nuke them until thawed/softened. you can also 'break in half' the solid chunk of frozen diced onions in the zipper bag relatively easily.
related tip (not mine, but thanks to the tv show Castle for this one): if you're sensitive to raw onions, like i am -- eyes watering like niagara falls, sinuses running, and even sometimes nausea (from the smell of them)......wear swimming goggles to chop onions. it works, i swear!