Have never frozen tomatoes for further processing later, but do it with fruits and other veggies all the time.  Just measure the volume before freezing!  It makes life sooooo much easier when you do get around to canning them.  At least with everything I've processed that way – so figure the same would apply to 'maters.

Was gifted a huge box of cukes last night, so will do B&B pickles until we run out of jars!  Well, these are semi rejects from our produce guy, so the flock has already gotten some of the worst culls.  What remains is a HUGE pile of cucumbers!  And here I was fearing that we wouldn't have enough additional cukes to make more B&B pickles, and we would end up keeping what we have now for ourselves!

Ya reckon the fact that B&B pickles are our produce guy's faves and he wanted more than one little jar of them might have had something to do with his giving me all these cukes?  

Now we need more onions!  This batch may not have many onions.  Oh, well…

Finally got 11 pints of Bread & Butter pickles processed today.  They've been iced down and brined for two days!

These 11 pints were from 2 gallons of brined cuke chips, with some onions thrown in for good measure.  (This pic is of an earlier batch.  Today's batch didn't have as much onion simply because I ran out!)  Not really sure if the rest of the cukes will become chicken food or more pickles.  I've had about enough slicing cukes!  At least for a few days, and these cukes will not hold much longer.