Mind set food hoarder, has to stop!!!

[cookie1]

I have been having a good laugh reading all this. I tend to put leftovers into the freezer and when we were away DD used most of them up when she didn't get home until quite late. Usually I try to get rid of them but having 'choose your meal' nights over the weekend.
Speaking of buying cheaply, DH went down to see his Mum on Saturday and she gave him 2 coconuts she had bought cheaply. When we opened them they were so off the house literally stunk.
When we cleaned out MIL's house when she went to the nursing home we found frozen food from over 10 years ago (use by date) and tins that had either exploded or were really bulgy. MIL actually has a problem it is callled Diogenes Syndrome. She buys/steals/begs/takes and collects everything she sees. Even though it is a diagnosed problem it is incredibly frustrating when you have to clean up and she is crying begging you to leave her things alone and shouting at you. We do get cross too.

The moral ladies....................keep adding to the freezer and pantry for that rainy day. You don't have a problem.
Sorry. Here endeth the lesson. 

[judydawn]

That would be so frustrating Cookie and yes, our bulging freezers are a completely different problem.  I like JulieO's idea of having a freezer clean out every 3 months - I'd like to think I could work my way towards that and Hally certainly has inspired me and others to use up what we have in there so that we can start cooking again. I've taken 5 things out in the past 2 days and cannot see where they came from so I think I have a long way to go.

[Halex]

Ooh Cookie that really is a problem. 10 year old meat, OMG!! you would have to throw that out on rubbish day, gosh the stench alone would put me in hospitalLOL

Yes queen of freezer meals Judy.

Well i think by the weekend my freezer meals will be very low on left overs,  my plan is to leave 1 large lasagna, 1 mm bol sauce, my curry pastes, a few odds & ends, and all my recently purchased meat and nothing else. Its looking good. Very very happy.

I still have a couple of items like chicken kievs that we need to use up too. Not planning on buying much until after our holiday, mainly milk and not much else.

I hope to be organised like julieO in future.

Happy with my freezer clean out.

Hally

[leesmac78]

A freezer clean out every three months?  Rotate the mattress?  Clean the windows?  Pyrolytic clean the oven?  Descale the kettle, iron and coffee machine??  Dry clean the duvet?  Spring clean the linen cupboard?

Yes, these are all jobs I should do on the weekend, yet I seemed to find myself reading posts on the website and Thermomixing myself into a stupor.  I would love to be the perfect wife but I'm just not!!!

Keep Thermomixing, let those freezers grown!!!!!!!!!

xxx

 

[Halex]

Lee

What a crack up !LOL
Hally

[cookie1]

I agree, it's much more fun on the forum.

[obbie]

  So yesterday, in stead of spending $170 for groceries, I spent $80 for the week, which included $40 for 2 lots of olive oil on special.
I have 3 freezers full, and heaps of veges in the vege garden, So saved $140

Robyn

[Yvette]

I was the same Obbie all we needed this week was milk and surface spray I think around $10 for the weekly shopping bill not bad.

[Halex]

Snap milk & finish dish washing tablets. Same next week, maybe a few veggies and milk
YAY more money for holidays

Happy Hally

[obbie]

 Hally you are so fun.
i wish I havd more shops here, to shop in.

Robyn

[Halex]

Yes Obbie cant wait to start shopping in Hawaii.

H

[shanmac]

When do you go to Hawaii Hally?

[Sim]

I just started reading this thread and had to laugh. I don't have a home at the moment. (It's my own choice. Don't worry! I'm not living on the streets ) All of my big stuff is in storage but I have 6/7 weeks to use up as much of my food as possible before I palm it off to a friend or family member. So, I have just a back-packer style bag of cloths & a pair of boots to clothe me but the rest our 4WD completely loaded with my pantry items! I even threw half of it out before we left our house. Ha ha!

I'm currently driving around with:
• a milk crate of spices
• a crate of various soy sauces, vinegars, liquids
• and two big square basket things of things in containers like flour, grains, pasta, legumes.

The thing that did my head in was that I have a MILK CRATE of spices and I'm attached to every single one of them. Hmmm...

[nazar]

sim
  why dont you use the spices to make chookies KFC spice mix
cookie told us in the thread that she used it while travelling
and it great on lots of stuff like steak,wedges,chicken
read the kfc thread
sorry l not shore how to post the link
happy travelling  hope you have lots of fun
where r you going and for how long

[Halex]

Shanmac we go next wednesday

Yay, sooooo excited.

Sadly freezer not quite as empty as i hoped, but we still have until tuesday nights diner to empty it a bit more.

Making chookies kfc today, so looking forward to that.
H