Are you a FLOP? Who has the most organised freezer?

wssla00

I am awful! Worst still is if I can't find the bag I have frozen stuff in and just make up a new bag..... I have two freezers fit to bursting and I bet if I looked I could certainly live out of it for a month at least!

lizzyb1812

Never used to keep an inventory but this summer I decided I needed to do one so that I could use stuff up and make room in the freezer for home grown fruit and veg.

I did the list - just once - then a menu plan, putting F after each meal that used something from the freezer. My menu plans are for a week at a time. Couldn't believe how low my shopping bills were when I did this! :T

I had been thinking of getting a second freezer but have no need to now - I have enough room for good special offers, home-grown stuff and batch cooked things. And I've also learned that most special offers aren't special at all - the supermarkets do them all the time so no real need to stock up huge amounts.

Oh - if your freezer has given you a shock - have a look at this:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2632379 :eek:

I've now got a toiletries inventory too...........

Lizzyb

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I sometimes feel that food multiplies in my freezer and I reorganised it this afternoon actually and have found more than enough dinners for at least a month in there,somethings I had forgotten I had.so lots of NSDs for me this coming month

champys

I also did a deep-dive freezer reorganize this morning and was horrified by all the stuff I found I didn't know was in there - for example bags and bags of frozen raspberries, strawberries, cherries from the garden. Obviously thrown in there 'for jamming later' or nice winter puddings that in reality don't get made. A lot of the fruit is now sitting in my steam juice pan and will yield several bottles of nice fruit juice that I do enjoy when I have it. I also found at the bottom some organic veal trotters I have never known what to do with - they are in the slow cooker as we speak trying to become veal stock, and if it doesn't work then bad luck (I got them for free at the time).

To keep things better organized in future I took a hint from another thread on here some time ago: I had bought some of those big, square sturdy polyprop shopping bags and filled one with frozen garden veg, one with meat/fish and one with 'odds and sods' (like baked things, ice cream or whatever does not match previous categories). They are now sitting in the bottom of the chest freezer. The baskets on top are full of batch-cooked food and soups - this is what DH eats when I'm away, so now he can actually find it. There is still far too much in the freezer, so the next couple of weeks I am determined to eat through a lot of it! The maize is nearly ready and will need space to be frozen all at once when we harvest....... determined to never let it get this bad again!

raphanius

doing inventories is one of the best things this forum has taught me to do. i now inventory my freezers and cupboards on a regular basis, its suprising how much stuff i buy and how i keep topping up my stocks. so every now and then we run stuff down and use things up plus its a good excuse to find new recipes to use up odds and ends rather than sticking to the same old same old.

lil_me

Type a list of everything in your freezer. Laminate it (or in poly pocket). Use a wipe clean marker to mark how much of everything you have in, when you add things and when you take things out you can alter it.

misswissy

jaxx46 wrote: »

Lucky you! All I ever find in the bottom of my freezer are bits of sweetcorn and the odd oven chip lol

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: You and me both!

msgnomey

http://organizedhome.com/

for a freezer inventory
http://organizedhome.com/sites/default/files/printable/notebook_food_inventory_freezer.pdf

and some other organising pages!!
http://organizedhome.com/household-notebook/printable-pages

jcr16

lol, my mum is like this. she has two freezer at home full and my nan who lives opposite to mum has 2. and my mum filles them all up with home grown produce , or soft fruits mum has been given. mum is often finding things out ( not that brill at labelling) and planning to make say a plum crumble and it turnes out to be say stewed rhubarb or something ( both her and dad have poor eyesight so that doesn't help). lol. bless her. my mum's freezers always amaze me. i've never seen anyone have so much stuff in there.

D&DD

I did mine the other day..got fed up of opening the flap on the tall one and a frozen lump falling on my foot

I was sure I had a few beef joints left but turned out to have most of a butchers shop,half the north sea fish quota and no beef