Freezer Clean Out

[Halex]

Today i decided to tackle the freezers in the garage. I had done the drawers in the kitchen earlier in the week

Biggest challenge chest freezer. I bought some plastic containers from the reject shop and now have all my meat in the chest freezer (apart from sausages) so i have a tub for beef, lamb, chicken & pork. Each package is now dated and in tub correctly. I originally wanted a separate mince tub but just not enough room. Its great, i can see my menu plan and know i need diced steak, find it straight away. JD put me on to this type of organisation, she really is a superhero. No JD  i  didn't list everything in the tubs but easy to see.

Well i found some rather old bits and pieces, 2 which went to meat heaven and number 3 which is defrosting now. I had more sausages than i thought, we like the British sausage company so i seem to just grab some everytime i shop, just for a quick easy meal, well DS will be taking sausage sandwiches to school for a while!!LOL - he wont be laughing!LOL

Plus i have bread, bread to fill a small bakery, i just love to make it and then we freeze what we dont eat, so after today no bread baking until its all gone.

Not too many surprises, just shocked as to how much meat I have as well. Now No-one ask me about cooked meals, thy now have their own freezer, well they share  with the sausages. I have 7kgs of meat on order, wont be picking that up  until the end of the month.

Well i am a hoarder, would hate to run out of food, but must get all my stocks  down

Hally

[Amanda]

Oh, you're making me feel a bit guilty, Hally.
Quite a lot of things go into my freezer, never to be seen again.  I sometimes manage to deal with whatever is on the top, but I've very little idea about what lurks down in the shadowy depths of my chest freezer.
I like the idea of tubs for each kind of meat, though.
I think I can see that one working for me.

[Halex]

Hi amanda,

You  feel so much better knowing what is in there and where it is.

The tubs seem a good idea, will let yiu know how it goes. I am hoping with ths new organisaton i wont end up tbrowing meat out that i s too old. Will also look at menu planning around what i have in the freezer. I have 2 lamb roasts, so lamb will be our next roast i do. The mystery ,meat once defroted  was a pork loin, roasted that last night, will slice it up anf freeze it into portions to have later ths week, also good for a few sandwiches.

Hopeyou get to yiur freezer soon.

Dont know how but i locked this thread, silly me, well typical me.

Thursday went to  the dentist with my yoga pants on back to front, how embarassing........

Hally

[judydawn]

  I'm sure he didn't even notice Hally. 

[Amanda]

When I do manage to tackle the freezer the family shudders as they all know what that means - 'freezer surprise' dinners.
Whatever I pull out of the freezer is what we have for dinner, and it is often unidentifiable in it's frozen state.
Occasionally these days end up with take-away. 

[Halex]

Jd, not sure nice shiny bucke....mmm.....

Amanda, once its done and freezer surprise dinner are over life will be easy, use up first before you buy more. Sounds good in theory.LOL

H

[dede]

That reminds me, I better get into my Freezer this week as we have half a cow going in there next weekend. Better write myself a note or I am sure to forget till its too late.

[Halex]

Is that from your farm. 1/2 a cow, gosh how many kgs of meat there.

H

[dede]

Um Um, I don't know how many KG, I think its a 350kg Cow (Live weight) So at a guess about 80kg per side of meat. The cow has come from the Father-in-laws farm and my DH is cutting it up. We are going halves with a friend.

[Halex]

Omgoodness, how many freezers do you need?!?!?!?!

How long will that last.
H

[Cornish Cream]

Um Um, I don't know how many KG, I think its a 350kg Cow (Live weight) So at a guess about 80kg per side of meat. The cow has come from the Father-in-laws farm and my DH is cutting it up. We are going halves with a friend.

Just out of interest Dede, do you say how you want it portioned?

[dede]

We used to own a butcher shop several years ago and when we left we kept the big freezer, so there is no problem with freezer size.
And it should last us around 6 months I hope.

As my DH was/is a butcher then He cuts it up to exactly what I want (as I'm the cook). We will also have heaps of mince.
My favorite cut is porterhouse steak, DH loves T-bone steak. so we have to compromise a little there as a porterhouse is cut out of a T-bone.

[Halex]

Do yiu get wagyu. I love wagyu
 
H

[Cornish Cream]

Do yiu get wagyu. I love wagyu
 
H

Sorry just can't work this one out 

[dede]

?? Lost me