Is it worth having a second freezer

Pitlanepiglet

mardatha wrote: »

Well I live very rural, dont get in for whoopsies but am going to grow more veg this year than last, and I can forage a lot of fruit. I buy meat in Costco so that takes up room. I keep some bread flour in the freezer, and a lot of milk, and make a lot of soup. I think I'm havin one.

This is why we have multiple freezers as well, we do a supermarket shop about once every 6 weeks (great to avoid impulse buying!), we forage and we bulk buy seasonal food to last through the winter.

We buy meat from Costco and bulk buy it from supermarkets when there are good offers as well.

The freezers in the kitchens (ours and Dad's) contain things to be used, portions of home made ready meals, frozen veg etc and the majority of the meat stays in the freezer in the shed.

You have to manage multiple freezers and we're not a great example at the moment but it does mean that if, as this month, we can't get out the lane for 10 days we don't have to worry at all and we get to eat nice fruit and veg all the year around!

mardatha

to do something more fun :T
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Erm. Fun.... I remember the word but not what it MEANS !

ifonlyitwaseasier

mardatha wrote: »

well i live very rural, dont get in for whoopsies but am going to grow more veg this year than last, and i can forage a lot of fruit. I buy meat in costco so that takes up room. I keep some bread flour in the freezer, and a lot of milk, and make a lot of soup. I think i'm havin one. And ioiwe i'm sure i dono what you mean !

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annie123

My MIL got this one in October

http://www.johnlewis.com/230972469/Product.aspx

Its in the garage and used for milk/bread/butter mainly to save her having to go out in the winter months, she lives on the edge of a small rural village, and hasn't she been pleased she got it recently.
Says £20 py to run and worth every penny she said, cheaper than a hip replacement if she were to fall

LJM

i have a seperate freezer only a small normal 3 drawer one which is enough for us i can easily stock it and still have room for a batch bake, we always have something going on so it is nice to have a meal i can just pop in the oven, i cook most things from fresh so it is mainly my fridge i find i need the extra space

jaxx46

Suziebloo:eek: I cannot believe you told Mardatha that sweeties were unneccessary:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

on a more serious note, we have a fridgefreezer & a small chest freezer, usually the cf has ingredients & the ff has meals this usually does for the 4 of us.

apple_mint

We have two freezers and I would love a third. We have an under the counter one in the house and a tall upright one in the garage. There are two of us and we really could do with more freezer space. The freezers save us an absolute fortune.

We shop monthly for the main supplies and then weekly for any fresh fruit, veg, milk etc.

I have a year's supply of rhubarb and other fruit from the garden bagged up and ready for use (stewed fruit to have with yoghurt, the bases for crumbles etc.). (Free food) When we see a good offer on meat, butter, cheese etc. we bulk buy and pop it into the freezer. We pop our flour in the freezer (wrapped in a plastic bag) for 24 hours and then into a second fridge we keep alongside the freezer.

I cook double batches of meals and put the spare meal into the freezer and batch cook using a large slow cooker. OH makes bread rolls, tea cakes etc and pops enough for two people into each little freezer bag. HM bread is sliced and allocated two slices to a bag in the freezer.

I always cook more potatoes than we need for a meal (mash or roasties) and put the excess in the freezer. Great for constructing quick meals when we come home from work.

I make enough soup at the weekend for 5 lunches (with a roll) for the two us to take to work. Batches of muffins are also frozen for our packed lunches.

The problem with our set up is that when I've stocked up on base ingredients (meat, cheese, fish, fruit from the garden etc.) I haven't enough room for all the batch cooked food I want to put in :rotfl:Remember those little sliding tile games where you move blocks around to get them in the right order. Our freezers are like that in 3D :eek:

We plan to grow more veggies this year and to freeze these too.

I haven't done a full shop for weeks have spent just under £5 on extras (cabbage, cream for the trifle etc.) over the Christmas period.

jenster

i too have more than one freezer

and there great my chest freezer lives in the shed and we worked out costs about 35 quid a year to run

and i belive it does mean that instead of a weekly shop and the trip to tesco's for " just bread" that ends up costing 20 pound ( a very expensive loaf LOL)

i can get the bread on whoopsie and the lumps of cheese at a quid or less and cheap 5p bottles of milk and not have to worry also great for those tomatos and strawbs ect from the garden instead of wasting them - and then we can have 2 weeks off shopping every so often and use up what we got

so if u have the room i'd deffinatly go for it

Vaila

we have two freezers, one is attatched to the fridge and the other is an under counter one
the smaller one is usually filled with h.m meals such as soups, pasta bakes and sauces that were batched cooked and meats while the larger is usually stocked with fruits and veg that we have grown and hm baking

kippers

We bought a 2nd freezer at the beginning of 2010 and haven't regretted it....i now have a total of 3 allotments and i have so much fruit and veg in them from there. Woopsies are great as i don't have the worry now of not being able to store them...yes i love our 2nd freezer