Why dont i label things aaarrrgggggggg

zippychick

im jealous of your dinner! :O

ive merged this with a similar thread on not labelling food!

Zip

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I took out what I thought was a pork chop today for dinner tonight and it was ,but more of a shoulder chop and I ate it but didn't really enjoy it .I have a tendancy to take things out of there wrappers and rewrap in cling film than forget what it was in the first place .But it does make life 'interesting' to say the least
I took out what I thought was chicken kiev before Christmas and it was in foil.After it had defrosted I was going to put it into the remoska.Good job I opened it up, it was a roll of bicuit cookie dough that I had left over from halloween when I made the grandchildren Halloween cookies ,oops

lostinrates

Masking tape! Genius, pure genius.. will get some next time I see it.

Our most common UFO...apple juice...because I put it in cleaned milk bottles...next to the milk in the freezer.

bluebag

I got round the labeling thing by using any old scrap of paper, torn cereal box, bit of kitchen roll... whatever and scribbled on it what the stuff was. I then double bag the item with the paper in between the two freezer bags.

I usually freeze stuff in a bag placed in a container and then just lift the bag out when it's frozen so I don't have to have a world class supply of freezer containers. Scribble and double bag, easy.

joolsybools

pounds_and_pensive wrote: »

I'm reminded of a woman I'd read about years ago who opened a tub of ice-cream, thought it looked like it had melted and been re-frozen, and so returned it to the supermarket and got her money back. It wasn't until afterwards that she found another tub of ice-cream in the freezer in perfect condition and realised the supermarket had just given her a refund for a tub of her home-made chicken soup

that's the sort of thing I would do :rotfl:

JulieGeorgiana

I freeze things in tubs and when I run out of tubs (every 2/3 weeks) i pop them all out into cheap freezer bags.

I found my sharpe pen writes VERY well on the freezer bags and then they get poped into a HUGE legoland bag of odds and ends meals!

We call it the pot luck bag!

I got fed up of not eating something because I wasn't actually sure what it was! So it would get freezer burn and be thrown!

Not I keep a list... which works... most the time

Trazy

thanks for the masking tape tip, I usually play freezer lottery

rosie383

I thought I was sending my dh to work one day with some lovely soup for his work lunch. He said it wasn't very nice and I realised it was the remains of a cous cous sauce with no meat or veg...... more like a stock really.
Haven't done that one since! Now I label, unless it's something obvious. Another one here off to look for masking tape.

Jolaaled

Whoever recommended using Masking Tape to label....THANK YOU!!:T

I now have a roll hanging up on my kitchen roll gizmo, with pen handy. Have quickly labelled lots of freezer bits and my newly made marmalade too.

You're such a fab crowd on here!:beer:

BUXTONRABBIT

I am glad I am not the only one. I got fed up with mystery meat and made it my New year Resolution to label everything. I got a roll of sticky labels from the post office shop in the summer, for my jam. 500 for £1 and they stick equally well on frozen stuff.