Our freezer is in a pretty appalling state right now - full to the brim....but of what?
There never seems to be anything useful for a quick meal, it's full of fruit, bread, greens, bones....
Where are the chicken pieces, packs of ground meats?
They are at the store because I have no room for them.
With the dawn of a new year I've decided that enough is enough and I'm getting my freezer cleaned up, along with the rest of my life (ha!)
Last Saturday -
I was working on a menu plan for a busy week and went to the freezer hoping to find some stew meat and some chicken. I found the stew meat - no chicken, and also unearthed some yeast, which I added to my container in the fridge freezer, and some corn tortillas and homemade enchilada sauce, which I also moved to the upstairs freezer in anticipation of making a version of these green chile enchiladas.
I also brought up a bag of home frozen spinach, half a bag of frozen blueberries and a nearly full bag of mixed frozen berries.
I turned the spinach, the blueberries, and some of the mixed berries into a smoothie for me and the kids, along with a banana that was heading south and some almost expired coconut yogurt.
Delicious!
The beef stew meat was turned into Instant Pot Korean Beef, but the tortillas and sauce were not used. The Mister pulled a box of mini sausage rolls out for a dinner/snack one night but the kids refused to eat them. We tried to reason with them - you like sausage, you like pastry! No go.
This morning -
I can see improvement in the amount of space at the top of the freezer!!!!! Progress is being made.
I found some frozen chicken cutlets that will get cooked for tomorrows dinner. I also grabbed a bag of turkey bones to make some soup, a bag of roasted garlic heads to move to the freezer upstairs so I will remember to use them, a bag of cheese buns, MORE blueberries, some swiss chard - maybe for the soup?, 2 Korean kebabs from Superstore that I will cook up for The Mister and I to eat for lunch or dinner. I also found a bag of pierogis and some bacon, which will be an easy and tasty dinner too. Grabbed a package of sausages too - if I can find a crock pot recipe or something easy for them, my week is practically set.
I am not above tossing out anything that really needs to go, although my goal is to eat as much of this as we can - I found a glass jar of homemade jam that was thankfully in a freezer bag; it had cracked or leaked so that got thrown out, along with a truly unidentifiable bag of something pretty scary looking that I didn't want to thaw to find out what it was. Ew.
