Ziploc® and Chef Molly Yeh Debut the "World's First Frozen Cookbook," Combining Food Preservation Solutions with Flavorful Recipes
Families can now maximize their time, budget and ingredients with ease thanks to this first-of-its-kind collaboration
Chef and author Molly Yeh partners with Ziploc® to launch the 'World's First Frozen Cookbook.' Featuring creative recipes and bonus Ziploc® Freezer Bags, it helps home chefs effortlessly store and repurpose ingredients.
RACINE, Wis., Feb. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- An estimated 145 billion meals are wasted1 each year in the U.S., costing the average family of four about $1,5002. With each fridge cleanout, families may feel like they are wasting food while losing money in the process. Freezing can be an easy way to help preserve food and stretch every dollar, but many might find it challenging to repurpose frozen ingredients creatively. Now, with at least 10 percent more bags in new bonus boxes at no extra cost, Ziploc® is bringing home chefs the tools needed to help save money, reduce food waste and preserve freshness, all while turning the freezer into a source of inspiration.
Transform Your Freezer with Ziploc®
In partnership with cookbook author, mom, renowned chef and fellow food lover Molly Yeh, Ziploc® is on a mission to help families make the most of these bonus bags while preserving the food they love. To celebrate, Ziploc® is introducing the "World's First Frozen Cookbook by Ziploc®," which features recipes by Yeh and is a new tool to inspire delicious and convenient meals, help save money and turn the freezer into a food-saving hero.
This first-of-its-kind cookbook features three exclusive recipes from Molly Yeh that showcase her creative and flavorful ways to reuse food scraps and other ingredients with Ziploc® brand bags that would otherwise end up in the trash. The functional and innovative design serves as a hybrid between a cookbook and an organizer, specially crafted to securely hold up to three filled Ziploc® Freezer Gallon Bags. The cookbook also includes a bonus pack of Ziploc® Freezer Gallon Bags. Simply slide a gallon bag with ingredients into one of the clear pages, where it's protected by a strap, helping to keep leftovers organized and the ingredients preserved until ready to repurpose them.
"Cooking is all about creativity, and I've found that keeping my leftovers and food scraps from ending up in the trash really challenges me to think outside the box. It's been so creatively fulfilling to come up with new delicious ideas that puts these scraps to use." said Yeh. "Together with Ziploc®, the 'World's First Frozen Cookbook' is such a fun, spunky way of sparking creativity and, helping families preserve the food we all love while inspiring them to turn leftovers into exciting, delicious meals."
The "World's First Frozen Cookbook by Ziploc®" will be available exclusively on Amazon.com, with a limited number of cookbooks released each day this week, priced at just $10, including a bonus pack of Ziploc® Brand Freezer Bags. For those who aren't able to get their hands on the World's First Frozen Cookbook by Ziploc®, Molly Yeh's exclusive recipes will be released on Ziploc.com to recreate at home.
Molly Yeh's Three Tips for Helping Reduce Food Waste
Get the most out of every ingredient in the kitchen with Yeh's top three tips for helping minimize food waste, making mealtimes easier with creative fridge-clearing meals and practical freezer solutions:
- Save Your Scraps: Avoiding food waste goes beyond just saving ingredients that might spoil; it's about making the most of everything in the kitchen. Yeh always keeps a Ziploc® bag in her freezer to collect scraps like chicken scraps (even carefully placed bones), veggies and herbs. Once the bag is full, she dumps everything into a pot with water to create a homemade chicken stock.
- Use What You Have: Have a few go-to "clear-the-fridge" meals that use any produce, protein and leftovers before they go bad. These recipes help cut back on food waste and ensure nothing gets forgotten, especially fresh herbs and veggies. The "World's First Frozen Cookbook by Ziploc®" serves as great inspiration if you don't have recipes in mind already. The dishes inside – Ginger Scallion Veggie Fried Rice, Crunchy Parmesan, Salami and Kale Crumble, and Rose Berry Cookie Salad – all feature ingredients people often don't realize can be frozen, such as rice, bread, and berries, which might otherwise go to waste.
- Prep Batch Freezer Meals: Busy schedules can make family mealtime hard. To make things easier and more accessible throughout the week, Yeh suggests prepping meals ahead of time and storing them in Ziploc® Freezer Bags to help keep food fresh and fight freezer burn, ensuring our meals taste great. Her family absolutely loves whipping up big batches of potstickers, pita, bagels, muffins, cookies and granola bars – just to name a few! This routine simplifies dinner prep, reduces food waste and keeps meals tasting delicious!
Revolutionize Freezing with Ziploc® Freezer Bags
Ziploc® Freezer Bags are BPA-free and designed to help protect food against freezer burn for up to 12 weeks3, helping extend the life of your food. With Ziploc® exclusive 9 Points of Protection4 home chefs can freeze fearlessly.
With 50+ years of expertise in the bag, Ziploc® redefines what it means to help protect every ingredient, snack or dish by continually innovating products. Now, Ziploc® Brand Bags come with 10 percent more bags in every bonus box at no additional cost. This means more opportunities to save money, savor more delicious meals and more bags to help preserve freshness and waste less food. The bags are widely available in stores and online at major retailers, including Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Kroger.
For more information on the "World's First Frozen Cookbook by Ziploc®" and the exclusive recipes, visit Ziploc.com.
1Feeding America
2 USDA Report: The Estimated Amount, Value, and Calories of Postharvest Food Losses at the Retail and Consumer Levels in the United States, 2014
3 Tested on ground beef
4 Based on November 2024 e-commerce category audit of Amazon, Walmart and Target searching freezer bag with this combination of features
ABOUT ZIPLOC®
Ziploc® brand bags and containers provide smart, quality solutions that help you maximize your resources, and ultimately get more out of your everyday. From helping keep food fresh, to organizing knickknacks, to protecting bulky items, Ziploc® brand products are the food and home storage solution families trust. The Ziploc® brand offers more than 20 products, available in grocery, mass merchandise and drug stores nationwide, including: Ziploc® Freezer & Storage bags with Easy Open Tabs and Stay Open Design, Slider bags, Sandwich & Snack bags with Easy Guide™ seal, and reusable silicone Ziploc Endurables®.
ABOUT MOLLY YEH
Molly Yeh is the host of Food Network's "Girl Meets Farm" and a bestselling cookbook author known for her creative recipes inspired by her Jewish, Chinese, and Midwest heritage. She lives on a sugar beet and wheat farm in northern Minnesota with her fifth-generation farmer husband and their two daughters and has been featured in The New York Times, Bon Appetit and Food & Wine.
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