FoodSaver
March 19th, 2009
If you’ve read my blog much at all, you know I love my FoodSaver. I use it way more than I ever thought I would. Earlier this month when making Vince’s cake, I had leftover pecans and coconut and I sealed the bags – the same bags they came in. How often do you open one of these plastic bags and only use a portion of it. I am sometimes lazy and twist the top shut and leave it at that or I’ll use a twist tie but even then, it surely isn’t air tight.
Because I love my FoodSaver, and thanks to Foodsaver, I’m going to give away one just like it . . a model 2440.
To be eligible to win, all you have to do is leave me a comment between now and midnight Friday, March 20, and tell me how you think a FoodSaver would be most useful to you. The winner will be chosen by a random number generator and will be announced on Saturday, March 21.
I see that everyone has come out of the woodwork.
Oh my. 133 comments. I’ll make it 134.
I have been thinking of getting a FoodSaver for a while. I have been trying to make meals ahead on the weekends so I spend less time cooking during the week. It would be great to make pizzas and other meals to freeze and take out later in the week.
Now that my family has gone from five to 2.5 (last child is only home part time) I am still having a hard time cutting my recipes. I would use it to freeze all of my leftovers. Then I would use it seal my large packages of foods I buy at Costco or Sams. I hate to buy the small packages at the grocery store, it is just too expensive.
I would love to win a foodsaver! There are many foods I could preserve. I’m thinking of all the produce from this year’s garden, plus the walnuts and berries and fruits that need saving! Two of our newest crops are marionberries and rhubarb. Oh how I’d love to save every morsel! Thanks, Judy, for offering such a great prize!
Betty
I’m a neat-nic so I can imagine a million uses. Left overs, quilt blocks, sorted scraps etc. You get the picture.
Marge
ow that sure is a must have item,to be able to seal the product in it’s original bags is great-I use clothes pegs to seal my bags and dang they get knocked off when pulling other items out of the freezer and then tend to get freezer bite and have to be discarded .would enable me to securely seal my packages knowing they will remain usable till I need them…
I would love to have this because there are just the two of us to cook for. With this I could make full recipes and stash the extras in the freezer. They food would be much fresh from having been sealed!
Wow I would just love one of those food savers. I didn’t even know they exsisted.
I would love to win this food saver. I buy a lot in bulk and this would help tremendously in keeping stuff fresher, longer. Spices and such. I’ve wanted
one for years, just never have gotten around to buying one. And to be able
to seal up the original pkg. is better yet! With just the two of us, this would
be great. What a neat idea.
Two days ago my sister and I were talking about how wonderful this would be to use. She is an avid gardener and I love to make bread and was complaining about how hard it is to store whole wheat flours. Also, it would be fun to buy more bulk and secure it well. I’d love this food saver.!!!
I keep looking at the food savers but haven’t jumped yet. However, I am the queen of the zip loc bags. I just packed Liams socks in ziplocs for his camping trip.
I would like to have a FoodSaver to freeze meals in advance. There are days when I come home from work that preparing a meal is the last thing I want to do! Sounds like a great time saver!
My food saver is one of the original ones. Saves money by buying in quanity on sale items. The holidays make it work overtime and sometimes the seal strip decides to take a rest. Thanks Judy. Rosetta
I had a foodsaver a zillion years ago… in another life. In this life I’m making things simpler, and saving leftovers and home made/grown food is a priority. Thanks for the chance.
A FoodSaver would allow me to freeze left-overs and take them to my Dad (90 years old and still independent) who lives about an hour away from me.
This would be wonderful for my grandchildren visits (like this weekend!) when I always have leftover bags of their snacks and are not used again until they come back. I am sure they would appreciate me having one! I have seen so many uses for them I had not thought of, namely resealing bags as many have mentioned on the comments. And cooking for two now means usually having to buy a larger quantity than needed, so the Food Saver would fit right into this kitchen! And I am gonna get that Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day….gotta try that. Sounds too good to be true!
Most helpful would be never having green cheese in my fridge again
The kids have flown the coop but I still haven’t learned to cook for just two people. This would be so great for parceling up leftovers and bulk items for the freezer. In these economic times, having the food properly stored for later use is a wonderful idea.
I think a food saver would be a great addition to my kitchen. Since there are only 2 of us home (my daughter & I), it would save me a ton of money. I could package opened products into smaller portions as well as leftovers. I wouldn’t have to search anymore for all the small packages of meat – I could make my own. Thanks for this oportunity to be a part of your giveaway
My hubby is a dear and takes leftovers for lunch every day, but some meals I cook in such large quantities that he literally eats them every meal except breakfast for a week because I hate plastic containers and can only freeze a couple of portions. This would be great for him!
Oh I’d love to have a food saver! What a great idea for a giveaway Judy! Besides the many uses in the kitchen~ I make freezer meals often~ imagine how fresh they could stay!? I think it would be great in my sewing room too!
I send a lot of overseas packages and wouldn’t it be cool to seal everything up and save a little packaging space? Make kits of my stash and projects… and boy! I’d be sealing everything in sight when it was time to move again! Movers can really mess up a stash. 
We buy alot of things in bulk when they are on sale. Our main freezer is a regular one, but the fridge one is a auto-de frost. I believe that the defrost causes alot more freezer burn then the reg. one. I think that the Food Saver would help this problem. We bought one, and it died, and hadn’t used it that much to get a good feel for it. A food dehydrator is on the list too. Although, our “burned” food gets cooked up for the dogs (3), so it doenst go to waste, and saves on some dog food, but you hate to see it go to that too. Please add me to the list. Thanks. This is REALLY generous.
Gee, you mean I could seal up my opened brown sugar and it would still be fresh when I went to use it again. What a great idea. I will have to look into getting a food saver. Thanks!
Judy, I am learning so many money-saving ideas from you. The Food Saver is another one of them. I am always opening 1 lb. bags of pecans and using just part of them for my chess squares recipe. I usually just pop the leftovers (bag and all) into a freezer bag and put it in the freezer, but this would be a terrific spacesaver for my freezer. I love reading about your daily life. You are so warm and friendly.
Norma
I would LOVE to get a foodsaver as my husband is always deployed. It would be awesome to send him cookies and sweets without them going stale. thanks again for a great idea!
Loved my food saver too, but it died. We used it for everything. Since extended family live with us, two adult children and two grandchildren, and all the other people coming through, a food saver would be great. Love your blog. Just sent my picture in for the quilt along.
Jill
I would love a better food saver then the one we have. It is one of the early models and it’s just about dead! I’ve been having lots of problems with it. I would love to win a newer one. We use ours for wild game and really anything! Thanks for the chance!!
I have TONS of odds and ends in little bags that the ends are just turned over, not big enough to bother getting a tupperware type container out but too big to just throw out. I suspect that the more it was used, the more I would find to use it!
After years of cooking for family, six kids, we are down to the two of us. It was really hard to make the cooking transition but more so, it was the waste when I could not use the whole amount. I think it is brilliant to use the bags they came in and I would use it just about everyday!!!
I’ve been coveting your Foodsaver since I started reading your blog. I am building new vegetable garden beds this spring and would use it to store my garden’s bounty once it starts producing!!
I would use a Foodsaver to portion out purchases from Costco. With two teenage boys in the house I need to buy in bulk! It would be great to freeze things without the freezer burn. Thanks for the chance to win one Judy.
A Foodsaver would be great to put up produce from the farmers’ marker this spring & summer. We have too many deer in our yard to try to grow anything ourselves-except for my husband’s hot pepper plants. The deer don’t seem to like hot peppers much!
Wow, oh, Wow!!! Since we live 1 hr 45 min away from a decent store I would love, love, love, love, this fantastic baby! I can see how I could save money by taking care of my food in such a wonderful air tight procedure. I get so tired of retrieving a bag of pecans and realizing they are past their prime. Coconut gets very dry quickly and I never thought of what you did. You are extremely creative, practical, thrifty, and talented. Not to mention tons of other foods like my crackers –I can only eat Akman and Nutthins. They go stale so quickly.
I would LOVE to have a FoodSaver! Didn’t know they could be used to re-seal the original bags products come in, and think that’s great! There’s only two of us living in my house, so sealing leftovers to freeze for later would be nice, and I love the idea of being able to keep things fresh and add shelf life to half used packages… I will find lots of uses for it!
This would be awesome as a single person I could put both my and my son’s make ahead meals in the freezer. Would be great for planning the diet meals as well.
I love to put up corn on the cob for the grandkids but freezer burn rears its ugly
head in just a couple of months. I would think it would keep much longer with this.
We have an older model foodsaver and have used it a lot! We noticed that it doesn’t always seal anymore and have been thinking about getting a new one. The one we have doesn’t seal any bags except the foodsaver bags. We use ours mostly for packaging venison. My husband and son both hunt during bow, gun, and muzzleloader seasons. You are so generous to be giving one away! It sure would be nice to win it!. I look forward to reading your blog every day! Thanks. Linda
The food saver would become the best gift I ever gave my mother!
I think the foodsaver is a great idea, especially in these economic times that we are in. I can imagine buying in bulk and freezing up enough for a month or more. That sounds great to me. Love your blog Judy.
I love to buy my meat by the case at Sam’s Club. A Foodsaver would make it so much easier to put up 80 pounds of ground beef at a time. We also hunt, so come fall we put venison in the freezer. I really enjoy reading your blog, thanks!
Terri S.
Judy, thanks for offering such a useful item for giveaway! We have an older foodsaver that we use all the time to store the meat from my husband’s hunting trips as well as meat and other items bought in bulk. Like you, we like to keep our freezers full and really stock up when there is a good sale. Our current Foodsaver does not seal anything but the foodsaver bags, so I would love to have the newer version that seals all types of bags.
Laura in AZ
I’d use it to reseal my bags too. I have twist ties on everything and if it’s to big for a twist tie I use rubberbands.
Judy, I never thought that I would use a foodsaver, but now that it’s just the two of us, I need a foodsaver, especially since you said you sealed products in their own sack.
I like to freeze a lot of vegetables during the summer for use in the winter, and just using ziplock bags, I have a lot of freezer burn.
I’m glad you ‘got away’ for a few. I enjoy reading your blog! Thanks for all your input and reminders, also your recipes are great!
Joyce in AR