One portion freezer draw...do you have one?

toffee65 · 29 October 2008 at 11:51PM

I don't know if anyone else does this but I thought it may be an idea to pass it along.

When I cook a meal I try to keep one portion back, if I can, or if there just happens to be a bit left over. I then place it in plastic pots from chinese takeaway (these could be donated to you

) and put in the particular freezer draw and use these at times when we need a quick one person meal.

I also see them now as our individual ready meals you could buy from a supermarket and what I see as costing nothing as before I would have binned that little bit of left over.

Olliebeak · 30 October 2008 at 12:25AM

What a great idea, toffee65!

At the moment I have a drawer with fishy stuff in, one with veggies, one with soups, one with some joints of meat, one with little parcels of meat in portions for two (ie minced beef, diced turkey, sausages, liver etc), one with bread products (naan breads, barm cakes, crumpets, pitta breads etc), one with potato products (oven chips, waffles, croquets, roast spuds etc).

When I've worked my way down though the freezer, I think I'll try to separate a drawer out for single servings

.

jimjams_mommy · 30 October 2008 at 12:41AM

My freeze is like ollibeak, with veg in one and main bits in others i.e veggie mince, pie's and fish.

But have started to freeze any extra I make like the lental cottage pie enough for DH and DS with a load of veg. My DS is 20 months so any left overs veg are used for the following day lunch ( having hot lunch due to the cold )

I get my veg frozen so I have a selection and a big bag of spuds from a local farm. I do get the discount end of the night veg from Mr T and just learnt how to freeze fresh veg. 44p for twp big bags freezed them and they lasted ages!

The take away tubs are great as it just enough and go in the mirco wave too!

toffee65 · 30 October 2008 at 12:45AM

Olliebeak...I just got fed up of wasting food that beign left in the pot.

At the moment I have...

2 pots of beef borginone (sp)
1 pot of tagliatelle
1 pot of veggies
1 pot of lasagne
1 pot of chicken curry
1 pot of bolognese sauce
3 pots of apple and raspberry crumble

and

1 reduced price (30p) Ginsters pastie...I do it too with the odd single reduced buys

We had a home made chinese one night and had a pot each of rice/noodles/stir fried veg left...OH came home late one night and we'd eaten so he added a few fresh mushrooms and enjoyed and chinese meal at 10pm

Kaz2904 · 30 October 2008 at 5:10AM

I don't have a specific drawer for this but I do have single portions of stuff scattered throughout my freezer.
Every so often I will end up with a drawer full but it soon gets used. Every time I go on a whoopsie hunt I pull every drawer out of my freezer to check what's in there and to fit the rest in.

[Deleted User] · 30 October 2008 at 8:12AM

Excellent idea I am working my freezer down at the moment as its in need of a defrost, but I will have a go at that when I start to re-stock I live alone anyway, so a drawer of single portions sounds great. I have a friend who seems to exist on chinese and I use her spare empty boxes to store my craft stuff in as they stack so well.I shall scrounge some extra for my freezer I think .

Olliebeak · 30 October 2008 at 8:46AM

I do have some single/double portions of left-overs (but only when I can rescue them from the SC before OH gets in there to sabotage my attempts at portion control).

Those extra portions come in really handy for lunches or jacket spud toppings - especially casseroles where all the meat has been used up but there's sauce and veggies left over.

I've also got very small portions of 'scouse' frozen for my dgd2 (aged 1) who has a milk/lactose allergy - we have to be very careful about what she can/can't eat.

I just haven't got around to keeping all this stuff in one drawer - it's a brilliant idea

.

suzywoozy_3 · 30 October 2008 at 9:21AM

We keep single portions in the top drawer of the freezer. I also put slices of cake etc there in single portions. Hubby then takes them for work. It's nice and easy, he doesn't have to open up and check if it's a tub of cheese sauce or something, he can just grab something on his way out.

When things are working well I then have separate drawers for veggies, meat and cooked food. The trouble is when I have an imbalance of stuff and then I just shove it in wherever there's room.

andrinaperry · 30 October 2008 at 10:09AM

What a fantastic idea, the best ideas are always the most obvious one, thank you off to have a sort out,

Andrina

debbiemc_2 · 30 October 2008 at 10:41AM

Hi :wave:

I have one of these drawers! My portions are for 1 and a bit - for me and my toddler. I work full time and its great to have a home-cooked meal in the evening that's come out the freezer. After my big monthly shop I spend the weekend with the slow cooker on the go, and make up batches of chilli, spag bol, shepherds pie, soup, chicken casserole, sweet and sour chicken and the like, and pop them into individual portions in containers and put them in the freezer. I then make up a meal plan for the month based on what I've made up. The night before I pull a tub of something out the freezer and out it in the fridge. Then for the next night's tea, in 20 mins or so we have a yummy meal with not much effort.

Other things I freeze which also come in handy - leftover sandwich ham - I chop this up and freeze in little portions for one, to add to omelettes or pasta. I also grate the cheese once I've had it open for a while, and freeze in food bags in portions-for-one, and use when making macaroni cheese. I also fry onions and freeze in portions-for-one, again for adding to omelettes. Also, I only buy carrots once a month, peel them all, chop some of them up and freeze in bags (again, portions for one!) and grate the rest, bag them up in small portions, to be added to bulk out mince dishes. Phew!

HTH.

Debbie. x

HypnoNu · 30 October 2008 at 10:42AM

I do this too! I currently have:

3 portions Jamie Oliver Beef Stew (h/m)
3 portions Spag Bol (h/m)
1 portion Chilli (h/m)
I Pork Stir fried Rice (h/m)
4 Lamb Curry (h/m)
3 Chicken Curry (h/m)
2 ramekins Apple crumble (h/m)
1 cottage pie (h/m)
2 portions Tomato & marscapone Sauce (h/m)

I'm sure there's more but i can't remember then off the top of my head! These keep OH fed while I'm away with work or back home late, if these aren't there he is totally incapable of feeding himself and will either get a takeaway or chocolate and feel sorry for himself!

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