Is it worth having a second freezer

purple_82

OMG! why did he do that?!

*moggins*

He's a chef! He reckons that I cannot cook (I can, just not to his standards) and that he was taking over the cooking and he would not use most of the cr*p (his words not mine) that was in there.

Oh and all my yellow stickered meat was the work of the devil and must go, that if it isn't fresh and top quality it's not fit to be used

harley1

No, you are definitely not the only one op.

My freezer is crammed. I made far too much chicken in hoi sin tonight and had to throw out some pizza suffering from freezer burn and not v nice yorkshire puds to make room for it.

I have promised myself that this month I will eat something from the freezer every day. Tonights chicken was from earlier in the week when I spotted a lovely cornfed chicken and decided I absolutely had to have it that night, so my plan isn't working yet, but I will try... honest

Harley x

freyasmum

My mum has three!

She has a chest freezer of her own, my chest freezer and my tall freezer and she has every single on of them ram-packed full with food - and don't get me started on the cupboards :eek:

I don't know why she does it, but she keeps buying and buying. She'll have a grocery delivery one minute and then be out at the shops the next! I've lost count of the amount of times I've suggested that she goes through the cupboards and freezers, but it all falls on deaf ears :rolleyes:

Gingernutmeg

I really think that the 'emptying of cupboards/freezers' habit must be a man thing, along with not understanding a woman's need to have the making for at least a few meals in the house. My OH is the same, although I have finally got him round to seeing yellow stickers as a good thing (I beamed when I saw hime head straight to the 'whoops' section at Asda the other day:)), but I was horrified when we moved to find out that he'd 'tidied' the cupboards and loads of my sauces, vinegars and spices had gone, along with flour, lentils etc. It's nice to be buying fresh, but it's so frustrating when you go to make something with something you're sure you had and it's all gone

geordie_joe

*moggins* wrote: »

He's a chef!

I don't like chefs, they are just cooks with over inflated egos. You can't chef food, you can only cook it!

Give me a woman who can cook over a man who calls himself a chef any day. Chefs are like modern artists, they like to think what they create is something special. They even make up phrases to make what the cook sound clever, like pan fried steak. What else can you fry steak in?

They present stuff "drizzled with oil", get over your self, it's just stuff you poured oil on!

A woman will put a meal in front of you, but a chef will put something he thinks is a work of art in front of you. And you'll sit there thinking, it looks pretty, but when is he going to bring the rest?

Tell him to keep out of your kitchen, and if he criticises anything you cook he'll be wearing it.

Fozz

Yes, I have 2 freezers and often feel I am shopping to feed the freezer rather than the family! Because of my tiny kitchen I have one out in the garage which I use and a smaller one in the conservatory next to the kitchen which my DDs use for snack type food as they generally can't be bothered to go out to the garage, so I feel I've got to keep them both stocked up.

julie2710

I have a full freezer - stocked up prior to giving birth, then husband left so now have loads of food for me a 3 year old and a baby!!! Cupboards are also full. Anyone looking would think there was a family of 6 living here!! Still shop every week though. Also have enough toilet roll and kitchen roll to last probably for the next year as usage has more than halved since the departure of husband:rotfl:
Think I have hoarding bug from my mum - she always has a stock of at least 6 bags of sugar and there's only my brother who has 2 spoons in his tea and he only visits on a Saturday!! Always remember her having about 30 packets of tea (leaf!) when I was a kid as well!!:D
Can you use food with freezer burn? I'd never heard of this until recently and think I have probably used stuff in the past that had it?

*moggins*

geordie_joe wrote: »

A woman will put a meal in front of you, but a chef will put something he thinks is a work of art in front of you. And you'll sit there thinking, it looks pretty, but when is he going to bring the rest?

My thoughts exactly!! My cooking might not look like a work of art but it tastes pretty good and I've never had any complaints before, in fact my exhusband once said the only thing he missed about me was my cooking

I have only cooked three times for him, one omlette that he said wasn't fluffy enough and was underseasoned, Gyros which he couldn't criticise because he didn't know how it should look or taste, and gammon chips and peas. The next week he did gammon, chips and peas the 'chef' way and stuck it in front of me telling that was how it was supposed to look!! After that I refused to ever cook for him again. In fact tonight he will get home from work at 11.30pm and have to cook himself something because I won't!!

katholicos

I have a real fear (that might come true actually) that one day soon we might have very, very little to live on and so i am beginning to stock up. I have enough to make meals for say about 10 days or so, but i would like to dig my old upright chest freezer out of the junk room and get it going so that i can start making larger purchases of meat and chicken when i see them on offer. Also I would like to start batch cooking, my current fridge/freezer doesn't allow enough room to accomodate any extra storage, just the standard storage of an upright fridge/freezer. I'm wondering how economical my old chest freezer will be to run though.