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When I clean the fridge I usually put together a robust soup. My husband keeps buying steak which I’m not keen on. I think one will end up in a stew As we dig down in the freezer.
 
This is a problem we don't have. There's no freezer in this house.

We need to be mindful of how we use the space in the freezer component of the fridge. We seldom accumulate mystery containers or forgotten packages of meat.
 
paradox3 said:
This is a problem we don't have. There's no freezer in this house.

We need to be mindful of how we use the space in the freezer component of the fridge. We seldom accumulate mystery containers or forgotten packages of meat.
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Ditto. We sometimes adjust our shopping to keep from overstuffing the freezer. At the same time, we have never had more than three people in our household, and its just two now, so a freezer would be overkill.
 
Mendalla said:
Ditto. We sometimes adjust our shopping to keep from overstuffing the freezer. At the same time, we have never had more than three people in our household, and its just two now, so a freezer would be overkill.
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Same. We adjust our shopping too when necessary. We did fine without a freezer when there were four of us living here.
 
paradox3 said:
Same. We adjust our shopping too when necessary. We did fine without a freezer when there were four of us living here.
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My parents had five and never had more than the fridge freezer. But Mom wasn't working from my birth until the mid-eighties so was cooking most days and leftovers rarely lasted long enough to bother freezing them given the number of people.
 
My mom never froze leftovers. She got busy cooking something with the leftovers from the Sunday roast (beef, pork or ham) or used them up the same week.
 
paradox3 said:
My mom never froze leftovers. She got busy cooking something with the leftovers from the Sunday roast (beef, pork or ham) or used them up the same week.
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Same. A roast usually got us through a couple meals and then anything left got used in other ways. She had a meatgrinder so leftover beef could end up in a beef pie. Pork or ham might end up in something else. Chicken or turkey might end up in sandwiches or something.
 
Mendalla said:
Same. A roast usually got us through a couple meals and then anything left got used in other ways. She had a meatgrinder so leftover beef could end up in a beef pie. Pork or ham might end up in something else. Chicken or turkey might end up in sandwiches or something.
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Did you grow up in my house? :D
 
Nancy said:
I like my freezer for freezing berries and vegetables and even fruit pies from the summer. Those tastes of summer are wonderful around now!
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How many berries and vegetables do you freeze?

My Mom used to freeze some of the produce from our backyard garden. But the freezer component of the fridge handled it all.

It's never been my thing. Homemade pickles are delicious but I have never made them either.
 
We grow raspberries, and usually pick strawberries and blueberries in the summer, so I like to freeze those. I also make fruit pies (peach in season, rhubarb, raspberry, apple) and freeze them to pull out in the winter. We had peach pie as dessert at our Christmas dinner. I often serve raspberry or strawberry shortcake to guests. And I freeze beans, kale, corn, peas. The rest of the freezer is meat, cookies, bread, and some of the stuff my grandkids like so I have them on hand (cappellettis, chicken nuggets, pizza pockets). When we cooked the turkey at Christmas, we froze some of it to pull out for a quick meal at some point. We use our freezer a lot. But...(don't tell the energy police) I think the freezer is older than I am. It came with the house we bought in Fort Frances almost 40 years ago! And the original owners had had it for a very long time too.
 
We have two freezers.
One a small-mid sized chest freezer. It is filled in the summer and fall with fruit in season, freezer jams. It is then consumed as the winter wears on: apple pies, raspberries, etc. It also holds the nuts used in baking, and the whole wheat flour. It sometimes holds things that I find that i will need in baking: pound cakes, dried up bread. It holds excess bread that i buy when I see it 50% off. It is newer (2 years old?) and is efficient.
The 2nd is a standup freezer which contains things used for dinners / meals / appetizers. One shelf holds the ice cream and treats, and appetizers, etc
Next shelf holds "quick meals". Next is meat. I tend to buy meat at 50% off and then freeze it. It also holds specialty meats that I buy from Oakridge Acres already frozen: grass fed beef, bison, pork, elk, etc. Butter is in the freezer as well, purchased at lowest price i can get when i see it on sale. Lots of stock is in the freezer: beef, turkey, chicken. (I often run out). it's older and likely not as efficient as a new one would be.

Our fridge does not have a freezer.
 
lol, well, i didn't name the cigars that have been there for 10+ years (moved from our old house) or the slab of dark chocolate. those are my hubbies. I figure they take little space.
Defrosting does help, as everything has to be "yup, i want it", or "we should eat that soon" before it goes back in.
 
JayneWonders said:
lol, well, i didn't name the cigars that have been there for 10+ years (moved from our old house) or the slab of dark chocolate. those are my hubbies. I figure they take little space.
Defrosting does help, as everything has to be "yup, i want it", or "we should eat that soon" before it goes back in.
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Eating all meals from a small chest freezer and a fridge freezer, I am grateful for German visual org skills. He can always tell me what we have and where it's at, and when my freezer org skills run out, as they do, he can do the job.
 
As part of decluttering, I have been able to get rid of
A) dv receiver and remote for bell satellite
B) splitter and two cables for bell dvr
C) cable running from wall to tv for bell satellite
D) modem and ethernet cables for bell rural wireless
E) old cable for xplore satellite

In the spring, can get rid of 3 dishes from side of house and down hill.

I am so pleased.
 
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