Today it was time to get to grips with sorting out the freezers and my spare fridge, last week Angela of
Tracing Rainbows did an excellent post about organising your freezer, it put mine to shame! Thank you Angela for inspiring me to get off my bum and sort it, the thing is it didn't take that long!!
First we have my spare fridge/freezer, I bought this when I was baking for our Country/Farmers markets to keep things seperate and chilled ready for market. I gave this up about 4 years ago and the fridge came in handy for storing extra milk etc.
This is the messy before!!
All tipped out onto the worktop to organise and make a list of what is in there.
All tidy now, the curry on the top will be used tomorrow for tea with a portion of frozen rice and some of the Bhaji dippers.
And the top bit with the easy to grab cake portions if hubby fancy's a quick pudding and custard and some tomato & herb bread for next weeks frozen soup... reheated of course :-)
This is the top fridge, not too untidy but I know there are 2 things to throw out...oops.. 2x1/3rd jars of mouldy looking jam!!
There, thats better. We dont have any shops near us so we stock up with the filtered milk which has a longer shelf life and it keeps me out of the shops during the week.
Here we have the chest freezer in the garage, not much tidying to do as it was done after Christmas and a full inventory taken.
Don't be fooled into thinking we have lots of Ice Cream and butter because I re use those tubs for casseroles and stewed fruits lol. What on earth possesed me to buy those WW pies I don't know, we will have to eat them sometime but can't face it yet!! one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time because they were cheap....
Mixed peppers are a must in my freezer, they are so much cheaper than using fresh and you can't taste the difference when cooked in bolognaise or chilli, also in there are a couple of bags of ready sliced mushrooms, great for those bulk cooking moments.
Thats all folks, just the main fridge to clean when its empty. You might be thinking to yourself thats an awful lot of food but I can assure you that over the summer months it dwindles down so we can use spare money for holidays in our caravan, lots of the food comes with us too usually in the form of homemade ready meals.
So.... how tidy are your fridge and freezer and do you have anything lurking at the bottom that needs using up?
Have a good day and enjoy the mild weather while it lasts.
You might want to pop over to Angelas blog and read
this post from today..... all excellent ideas.
Karen xxx
0 Yorumlar