What are you making for dinner?

C_J

Maybe!  (and heartfelt thanks for all you do as a fridge volunteer, I know how much work is involved).

Cheesy vegetable bake to finish up for us tonight, followed by an apple crumble (apples and oats from the community fridge!)

I have realised why my freezers are so daunting to sort and inventory - the majority of the items in there are ingredients, rather than actual meals or meats. There are some batch cooked meals of course, but most of the boxes and bags contain home-harvested veg/sliced peppers/chillies/random bread rolls and bits of leftovers. No wonder I can never seem to run it down properly.  I need to attack it with new enthusiasm, and stop using it as a dumping ground for things too good to throw away.

One drawer at a time .......

worrywart_3

C_J said:

Maybe!  (and heartfelt thanks for all you do as a fridge volunteer, I know how much work is involved).

Cheesy vegetable bake to finish up for us tonight, followed by an apple crumble (apples and oats from the community fridge!)

I have realised why my freezers are so daunting to sort and inventory - the majority of the items in there are ingredients, rather than actual meals or meats. There are some batch cooked meals of course, but most of the boxes and bags contain home-harvested veg/sliced peppers/chillies/random bread rolls and bits of leftovers. No wonder I can never seem to run it down properly.  I need to attack it with new enthusiasm, and stop using it as a dumping ground for things too good to throw away.

One drawer at a time .......

Does it start with a h? 🤣

kerri_gt

@C_J i know exactly what you mean about trying to use the 'ingredients' being more challenging.
I don't know what your freezer is like but mine is (loosely atm due to xmas tetris) orgnsised by shelf. Top shelf being OH veggie stuff (so he doesn't need to man look elsewhere) second shelf desserts, ice lollies / cream and seemingly bread from Olio.
Next down is ready meals or bung in the oven stuff (like fish fingers) and then meats and ingredients.
The drawers tend to be stock or stock ingredients (I cook Mog roast chickens so i make quite a lot of stock) and bottom drawer is frozen fruits. 
Naturally things get jiggled in between when it's full but that's the jist of it...and how i plan to return it when i get time / inclination to risk frostbite (and it pinging at me when the door is open for too long as i sort it)

Dinner tonight was pasta with some chopped sausage (banger feeezer liberated). Have a bit of a throat infection atm (one gland like a golf ball - thankfully it's so far only on one side) so lots of things taste a little off atm. Except cheese, and the medicinal ice cream that followed my pasta 😂

C_J

@worrywart_3 - no, not an H 🤣

@kerri_gt: I have two freezers, a big American style fridge freezer in the kitchen (with two large slide out drawers) and a tall upright with seven drawers in the garage. My original plan was to organise the garage freezer by shelf, similar to your arrangement, and then decant things to the inside freezer as I needed them, plus that would be the space for storing frequently used ingredients. It hasn’t really worked out like that though, and I have ended up shoehorning things into every spare inch of space, completely higgeldy piggeldy. 

I do know more or less what is in there, but I just can’t stand the chaos! 🤣

worrywart_3

Sounds like my freezer! I allways think I will run it down but it never works, probably the community fridge fault! 

kerri_gt

worrywart_3 said:

Sounds like my freezer! I allways think I will run it down but it never works, probably the community fridge fault! 

Nothing like a good game of freezer tetris 😂
My downfall is Olio. I have just made bread and butter pudding with three croissants out of the freezer from Olio, plus have a few rolls in there but really must get a grip on stuff.
Have just found there's a community fridge in the next town to me too. Not really worth a trip unless I'm going there for something else....but that isn't entirely unheard of.

C_J

Cod fillets for us tonight, poached in coconut milk and served with lots of stir fried greens. The last of the apple crumble for pud.

Islandmaid

Hubby had HM bread, meats cheeses etc - I’m fasting

Frith

Had 3 leeks to use up so made macaroni cheese. 

kerri_gt

Breaded haddock, petit pois and boiled potatoes.

Making a bigger than expected pot of carrot and swede mash for the freezer ready for Burns Night.
Also failed at nothing going in the freezer today as got a loaf from Olio (actually got two but one was mouldy) and some veg from Lidl.