Frozen Bananas

Ever wonder what to do with overripe bananas besides making banana bread? Don't get me wrong, banana bread tastes wonderful. But what do you do when you're heading out of town and at the last minute find some bananas that need tending to before you leave?

If you don't know me by now, there's one thing I hate. It's letting good food go to waste. Food is getting expensive so I like to get my money's worth.

We were headed out of town for the weekend and had a few ripe bananas so I peeled them, put them in a resealable freezer bag and placed them in the freezer.

I wasn't sure what I was going to use them for until I wanted to make my breakfast smoothie and was out of bananas. I pulled one out of the bag and used it in my smoothie.

The smoothie results were great, but because it took a little work getting my old blender to chop the frozen banana up, I decided to try freezing future bananas into smaller pieces.

The next time I needed to use up some ripe bananas, I peeled them and sliced them into 1/2" chunks. Then I layered the bananas in a cake pan, covered them and froze them overnight. In the morning, I broke the pieces apart and put them in a resealable freezer bag and placed them back into the freezer until I need them.

I prefer the fresh bananas, but when I'm out and I want a smoothie, these smaller chunks of frozen bananas will come in handy and also be a lot easier on my blender.

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