Clearing the freezer for Christmas

tootallulah

I am hoping to be a better reduced shopper next year with more fish and much less meat. Taken from the freezer today: 2 x tea cakes for breakfast tomorrow, some cheese for lunches tomorrow.

Gigervamp

tomtombeanie wrote: »

Or give to the ducks if all else fails?

Please don't feed bread to ducks, it's not good for them.

PasturesNew

For breadcrumbs you can make stuffing, or add it to meatballs/meatloaf, or chop it up as croutons and oven-bake it with other ingredients into what they call a Panzanella,

butterfly72

I've just had a sort out of my freezer and found a gammon joint. The use by date was June and it says on pack if frozen it should be used within one month. Obviously its way past that! Do you think it will be ok to use?




Ps. I did post this on another freezer thread this morning but haven't had a reply so trying again here!

kathrynha

I'm trying to empty out my freezer too. For lunch I had a container of something I didn't recognise when I took it out of the freezer. Thankfully it was savoury, and also rather tasty chicken and mushroom casserole.

Hoping to be able to do a big meat shop either this friday or next, which will do us till the end of January, but need to make sure there is space for a loaf of bread in there too. Don't normally freeze bread as we go through it quite quickly, but need to over Christmas

Gigervamp

butterfly72 wrote: »

I've just had a sort out of my freezer and found a gammon joint. The use by date was June and it says on pack if frozen it should be used within one month. Obviously its way past that! Do you think it will be ok to use?

It will be fine.

AlwaysAllie

lucyw88 wrote: »

Me and my husband will be. Some of the casseroles and unmarked bags (my own foolish mistake) we have no idea what they are or when they're from...it should be interesting!
Our biggest problem is that we freeze bread and I won't eat the crusts (not very MSE) so we have plenty of frozen bread crusts but no idea how to use them!:(

Yep I know this problem, finished up with two lamb steaks and one beef yesterday cos of no labels!

AA

tootallulah

Out of the freezer: beef in red wine I hope.

Florenceem

I have more going in to the freezers than out at the moment.
Out today - bread + tub of HM Apple Crumble + cheese.
In - 4 tubs of HM Cauli/Cheese.

tootallulah

Hiya Florence, nice to see you. Into the fridge: 2 X helpings of chicken curry, 1 X helping of rice. Out four slices of bread. 2 X blocks of cheese.