I don't post that often, but had some time to read tonight. Read what some of you do when you buy in bulk and freeze in individual ziplocs or packaging machines.
We Individually Quick Freeze stuff (IQF). If you've ever bought those big bags of chicken at Costco, for example, it's the same idea. Take a large cookie sheet (preferably one that has slightly raised sides). Spray the bottom lightly with cooking spray (butter, olive, whatever is appropriate for the type of food you are freezing). Wash your chicken pieces, or prepare meatballs or steaks or whatever and lay them out across the cookie sheet, sides not touching if you can avoid it.
Put the tray in the freezer for as long as it takes to freeze the pieces. I usually put mine in overnight. In the morning I take them off the tray frozen (sometimes I have to bang the tray to loosen them) and put as many of them as I can fit in a single one gallon ziploc.
Then you can take out as many pieces as you want on an as needed basis.
Have fun!
