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Part if the reason food gets freezer burn is due to melting and refreezing and too much head space. Snowy is right about proper wrapping this will reduce your head space . My parents used to buy the giant blocks from Costco and they would last just fine for months at a time. They also stored them in the big freezer in the garage, the kind that lock. They would keep mostly long term freezer items in there. This helped with the other cause of freezer burn, the thawing and re-freezing. The more you open a freezer the more likely you are to get freezer burn due to this.
Every time you open the door to get ice, chicken for tonights dinner, etc, you are raising the temp inside the ice box causing things to warm up. You would be surprised how much this will affect food.
We look for sales on berries and freeze those to use later for, well anything. Overly ripened bananas get saved for banana bread. Frozen bread can also be used to make croutons since freezing will draw out more moisture. We buy two things of bagels from Costco and freeze one and thaw it when we need it.
Loads of stuff can be frozen, some of it will just determine what you can make with it once its thawed.
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