A lot of lower fat dishes don t freeze well just because they are lower in fat. Breakfast casseroles seem to be an exception to the rule. We have frozen, thawed and baked them with good results. Freezer Burn Freezer burn comes as a result of moisture loss in your food through evaporation.
Water slowly passes out of the food to appear as fuzzy, grayish ice crystals on the surface.
It's not harmful to eat freezer burnt food, but the freezer burn dries it out and toughens it, and can give the food a strange taste. Freezer burn can be reduced by freezing the food faster. This produces smaller ice crystals, which do less damage to the food. New Resource Nutrition News would like to help you make healthier eating decisions, so this month we are adding a new resource to our site, the Guide to Heart Healthy Eating, from The Jewish Hospital Cholesterol Center. The guide was designed to help you follow a low fat, low cholesterol diet.