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

shellsmithcat

Two weeks ago I said "right i'm not buying anything else for the freezer until its empty". We have a large chest freezer was my parents its' about 25 years old and i've not defrosted it for about 3 years, so way overdue. I have had to be quite ingenious over the last few weeks, mainly just bunging stuff together and making new meals in the slow cooker, some have been good other have been, well lets say only slightly edible. Tomorrow is Defrost Day. Found some Value pizza bases today have some bacon in fridge and have small tin of tom puree in cupboard, found a couple of "bits" of mince for a savoury mince mix in the slow cooker tomorrow. On friday am going shopping to refill it so if anyone has any tips on what's best to restock it with would love to have them.
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Stephen_Leak

moodydonkey wrote: »

Stephen probably has a tracking device that follows food from freezer to sewer!

I shall treat that contempt with the remark it deserves. A quote from Vivian Stanshall's film, "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End".

"Generally speaking, if I've eaten something I don't want to see it again."

It saves having to open the freezer to find out what you've got in it.

missychrissy

Noah'strolly wrote: »

I had a four drawer under the counter freezer and got an amercian one so I could have more space for bargains, home cooking and allotment produce. Although it's capacity is much more I'm finding it a pain to stack and organize. It has shelves and side pockets not drawers so you can't get to the stuff at the back easily, its difficult to find anything thin and high enough to make full use of the pockets and you can't fill right to the front (you know how every inch of a basket can be stuffed with small stuff) because they all fall out when you open the door.
Anyone else got one of these?
Any tips?

i have the same problem as this with my freezer. Things fall out when I open the door - cracked another container as it hit the kitchen floor today and a waste of money to keep replacing them. There are two wire baskets but the fronts are very low, about three inches and two unstable wire shelves. I have tried using cardboard boxes but the back of the freezer is not flat and havn't found anything that fills the space easily.
I acquired this freezer with my house so didn't choose it myself. Very badly designed

Soubrette

LameWolf wrote: »

We have a fridge freezer, the freezer part of which has a flat tray at the top, three full-sixed drawers, and a half-size drawer at the bottom.

What make and model freezer do you have LameWolf?

I've been looking for a fridge freezer with a large freezer/smaller fridge but every single one seems to have a massive fridge attatched which we don't really need.

Thanks

Sou

LameWolf

Soubrette wrote: »

What make and model freezer do you have LameWolf?

I've been looking for a fridge freezer with a large freezer/smaller fridge but every single one seems to have a massive fridge attatched which we don't really need.

Thanks

Sou

It's an AEG OKO_Santo fuzzylogic. That's exactly as written on the front of it, I just went and looked.:o
It's quite old though, probably about 10 years. Mr LW already had it when I moved in with him, way back in May 2002.
It's good in that you can set a temperature you want it to stay at, not just turn a dial for "colder" or "not so cold".
The top fridge part is approximately the same size as the freezer part.

Linda32

My freezer is four drawers and I try to stick to dinners in the top drawer, veg in the second, Bread/Cobs etc in the third and meat in the bottom drawer or anything thats being frozen.

Don't ask why I don't put whatever I'm freezing in the appropriate drawer in the first place

At the moment its abit muddled as we keep on getting allotment produce - fruit and a glut of courgettes so we have those and courgette soup at the moment.

Everything is bagged and labeled though, the date I froze it and what it actually is No UFO's

Swan_2

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

OK, I have an Excel spreadsheet, with the contents of the freezer, their approx. weights or number of portions, and even arranged in their approx. location in the freezer as well.

I have a fridge freezer & a chest freezer & I'm planning to do a spreadsheet when I'm settled in my new flat

mine got so bad at one point a few years ago that I found some ancient fish (at least I think it was fish ) that even the cats I had at the time wouldn't eat :rolleyes:

skintmumof3

hiya,
i have just been given my FIL old chest freezer which works perfectly as our old upright is now knakkered.....
but i am finding stuff is just getting chucked around and to find anything i have pull out loads of food before i find what i want, as it always seems to be right down at the bottom....
so does anyone have a good method for storage etc so i know where stuff is
many thanks
skint
xx

Butterfly_Brain

When I had a chest freezer I had plastic boxes with lids ( the large ones for storage) And I kept meat in one, veg in the other, and so on It worked for me
HTH x

415SanFran

I suppose you could put cardboard boxes in.
1 Veg, 1 for bread and so on.