Do you know what's in your freezer?

[mouse4702]

Frankly, I don't.  (That's my freezer of course: I really don't know what's in yours.)

Occasionally I have a clear-out and all sorts of stuff appears - not labelled or dated.  Stuff I've put in thinking "well this will be coming out again within the week" and that's been that for a year.

Is it just me who's a freezer slob?

[ilove2patch]

Yes I know as it's only small so there is no room for lost food! lol

[mouse4702]

That sounds sensible!

I have now instigated a system - everything is noted on a sheet when it goes in, and not only is it labelled, but each month has a different colour sticker on it!

[ed_blackadder_1]

That's very organised Mouse, I know roughly whats in them and when it went in, every now and again I have a sort through but don't normally throw anything away.

[chickengrandma-2008]

In a 6' chest freezer and a tall larder freezer I think I have half the contents of Tesco!!  off the top of my head I have..............

 about 40 pints of milk, 6 loaves, a leg of lamb. 2 or 3 ham joints, loads of packs of home cooked and sliced ham, and beef, a whole turkey, lots of cod and salmon, processed stuff like fish fingers and cod in breadcrumbs, oven chips, loads of foil containers of home made lentil soup, lasagne, fish pie, chicken stew, beef and kidney stew, sponge squares, stewed fruit from the garden last year, about 20 chicken breasts, 15 packs of spare ribs, various bought deserts, meat stock for future soups, ice cream, lollies, and of course frozen peas. 

That's probably about half of it that I can remember!

[bitsnknots]

We have a fridge freezer and I've a good idea what's in.  We never waste food and it all gets used.  Anything that needs a label has one along with the date that we froze it.

[merc1_clocks]

If the mood ever takes me, I sometimes have a rootle to the bottom...then I just can't be buttocked to go any further...I'm a procrastinator 

[cookiecookuk]

stuff goes into my freezer never to be seen again and its worse now as i have a frost free one so i do not have to empty it to defrost it

.i n only use it for bread garlic bread frozen cod in batter, peas chips and onion rings .

thats what i use regularly  and then i put in random stuff to use later and that is the last time is gets seen.

the last time i sorted it out about 6 months ago there was stuff in there that i thought lisa might like kept when she lived just down the road.

she has been abroad for nearly  5 years...

[5129frederick]

I too have a chest freezer and clear it out occasionally.  We still buy too many ready meals which I feel is a dreadful waste of money.  If I had my way there'd be at least half a dozen chickens - dead of course,  and perhaps a whole lamb or a pig.  Buying in bulk is what it's all about.  I've still got frozen chicken casserole from when I made it six weeks ago.  I scrape off the excess frost and let it all collect with the chips, frozen peas, broccoli etc. that has spilt out of the bags and, using a spatula, lift it all up and dump it in the food recycling bin.  I'd love nothing more than to go into a supermarket and spend, say £150.00 purely on freezer food and spend the same amount in a fresh butcher buying a couple of pigs.  This is going back a few years, but where I used to live the butcher would hang up complete lambs for about £20.00 and pigs for about £30.00 to which you'd buy one at a discounted price, and he'd then cut it up and have it ready for you in about ten minutes.

[peteryola]

I know what is in ours, but I can't be bothered to list it all out!

One thing I do, however, is that I put the newest of everything on the bottom so the older ones get eaten first.  I keep stocks of certain items, each in a separate pile - frozen peas, carrots, sweetcorn, green beans, sausages, minced beef, bread for instance with items that experience a short turnaround ( ie that get eaten regulary ) placed on top of these stockpiles.

Therefore as long as nobody moves everything around while looking for something it is very easy to find any specific item quickly.

[cookiecookuk]

years ago friends of mine bought a baby aberdeen angus cow and then call har angie .my daughter small at the time use to help feed her and when ever we visited the farm she would visit angie.they treated her like a pet till she got really big and then they paid to have her burchered.she fill up a huge chest freezer.

they gave me some to put in my freezer and i never had the heart to tell lisa she was eating angie.

[bankhaunter]

I'd love nothing more than to go into a supermarket and spend, say £150.00 purely on freezer food

Back in the 60s we had our first freezer not having a car I asked a friend if they could give us a lift to buy food to fill it. His wife asked if she could come as she'd never seen anyone spend buy that much in one go.

Our purchases came to just £20

I used a small chest freezer for many years the contents of which were often regarded with suspicion by others even after being told to avoid anything which still had it's eyes or fur.

Eventually I bought a nice new 4 drawer one but had only been using it for a month when a storm removed large chunks of bricks and slates from my home so a fast get out was necessary and after a couple of weeks I got a new place which unfortunately had a built in freezer so my nice new one had to go, being smaller I know exactly what's in the one I have now.

[5129frederick]

I've never been one for uprights, because you're pretty limited to what you can get in them, the restriction being the space between the drawers.  A full freezer uses less energy than one that is two-thirds empty, so I used an old trick that seemed to work - I put a few large cardboard boxes into it and then put the stuff on top.  I don't think you save a kings's ransom because I never noticed much of a difference on the electricity bill.  They're quite economical really.

[right-then-petal]

I Got A Upright Freezer And In The Back Is Something Furry Might Be Out Of Date

[5129frederick]

 Something furry - love it.  Alexander Flemming would have loved you!

[chickengrandma-2008]

Remember when you thought the cat had left home......................................................................

[ilove2patch]

That reminds me of a poem I wrote some years ago! lol

The Fridge

I don't know where it came from,

I'm not sure what it is,

But it keeps looking at me

From the bottom of the fridge.

It's green & slightly furry

& has a lumpy skin,

I can't imagine what it was...

I'll throw it in the bin.

You may say "how disgusting"

A fridge with things so grim in.

But it's how Professor Fleming

Discovered penicillin.

[petitecalicocat]

Some interesting meals are concocted when the freezer is being defrosted 

[merc1_clocks]

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@ilove2patch wrote:

That reminds me of a poem I wrote some years ago! lol

The Fridge

I don't know where it came from,

I'm not sure what it is,

But it keeps looking at me

From the bottom of the fridge.

It's green & slightly furry

& has a lumpy skin,

I can't imagine what it was...

I'll throw it in the bin.

You may say "how disgusting"

A fridge with things so grim in.

But it's how Professor Fleming

Discovered penicillin.

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Love it Maggie 

[wskneil]

Just went for a look, and found a couple of wheel bearings for one of my motorbikes!