I am trying to get more organized in my freezers again. It seems that I have been so busy over the past few months that things have just gotten thrown in them wherever they fit instead of being really organized with a good plan.
So this past week in between appointments and other things, I have been tackling my two freezer drawers in my refrigerator. First thing I did was make a plan. I decided that all frozen vegetables and fruits, potato items like French Fries, quick prepared meal items(any purchased from the market or homemade leftovers), breakfast meats, ( bacon, sausage, ham, Steakums), ice cream, homemade preserves, and the meat I would be using in the next two weeks for dinner would go in these drawers. That will save me from running downstairs so often and opening the chest freezer.
The jars are the preserves and leftover homemade soups. Things that we can grab quickly for brunch.
We always keep a bag of frozen potpies because they are my guilty pleasure, some tortellini which I use in soup, avocados to go with my bacon and eggs once in a while.
I just went to B’J’s on Thursday. Hubby had his physical therapy that day. So I dropped him off and went to the warehouse club to pick up one item. B’J’s was only 2 and 1/2 blocks away. I had a free coupon for a 56 oz. Ling Lings Potstickers that was expiring this coming Tuesday. It was free because we have no tax on food here. By going with him I didn’t have to spend any more for gasoline doing a second trip.
You will see in these drawers that I have two plastic bags with white things in them. Sorry about the pictures but I am still having trouble with my phone. The white things are the potstickers. I repackaged them so that we could get 4 meals out of them and be able to fit them in these freezer drawers. I have a bulletin board on my refrigerator where I put directions from packages so I have them when needed.
I think this plan is going to work well for us. Time will tell. If it doesn’t, I will tweak it.
It took me a long time to do this with the short period of time I had because I had to go through my chest freezer to pull out the things that I wanted upstairs. Then I had to bring things from upstairs downstairs to make room for all of the things. Now my downstairs freezer needs major attention so I will work on that this week in between two medical appointments for me. That is going to take a lot of the rest of my time.
My son and West came for breakfast this morning. Afterwards I planned on going to our town’s electronics recycling with the frame that died the other day. My son said he would take it to his college’s recycling. That saved me a trip. I made eggs, bacon, and French toast for breakfast today. Everyone was happy!
We have been eating chicken for the past few days. We should finish it tonight.
I think I have a sinus infection and possible ear infection. I doubt that I will be able to get an appointment quickly with my doctor. So I may make a trip to urgent care in the morning.
That’s it for now.
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Oh no, I hope you feel better!
I do the same thing with my side freezer vs the other 2 freezers
The one in the kitchen gets opened pkgs, leftovers and quick meals, the side one in the loft gets lunch meat, bread and tv dinners and the upright gets everything I actually have to prepare.
Made the 4 hour RT to Costco yesterday, I haven’t been in a Costco in a couple years and boy have they changed. Spent 450.00 but some it was non food. I price compared some of the stuff with Amazon and Walmart and Costco still cheaper. I noticed eggs at the grocery store went down from 6.80/dz to 5.60/dz but Costco was 4.50, sadly I didn’t need any right now. We may start going every 6-8 weeks like we used to since the weather will be better but it does make for a really long day and we were exhausted by the time we had it all put away.
Hi Patti,
Thanks. I just got to urgent care yesterday. I have a sinus infection and two ear infections so the PA prescribed two drugs to clear them up. Hopefully in a week or so it will be gone.
Nice plan you have for the freezers.
That is a long trip! Our closest Costco is in the city East of us so it would be a 3 hour round trip. We haven’t joined because it is so far. But they are building on that will be closer to me and will open this year.