My freezer Inventory

Sadly I find myself joining the ranks of those no longer able to get anything into their freezers.... all 3 of them need reorganising.

So I've started by making an inventory of the contents of the deep freeze and freezer section of the fridge freezer in the garage.

In no order (all portions are doubles, except for the pesto which are 4-6 servings)
Deep freezer:
  • Sweet & sour beetroot cabbage soup: 4½
  • Gazpacho: 8
  • Stewed Rhubarb: 4 tubs
  • Carrot & lentil soup: 1
  • Curried cauliflower & dill soup: 4½
  • Coconut cream: 3
  • Warrigal greens & sorrel pesto: 6
  • Hummus: 2 pots
  • Homemade Tomato sauce: 3 pots
  • Rocket & Pistachio Pesto: 2
  • Vegan "butter" masala sauce: 3 pots
  • Chickpea, something illegible bake: 1
  • Vegan Cheese Sauce: 1 pot
  • Courgette & pea soup: 1
  • High protein carrot soup: 1
  • Stewed Plums: 2
  • Baked almond feta: 8 wedges
  • Palestinian upside down rice cake: 2
  • Sorrel & almond pesto: 2
  • Home-grown apple juice: 5 × 250ml pots
  • Sorrel & macadamia nut pesto: 1
  • Spiced breadcrumb mix: 1
  • Sweet potatoes & tomatoes sauce: ½ (single portion)
  • Creamy courgette soup: 1
  • Baked potato soup: 1
  • Garam masala butternut squash soup: ½
  • Pear chutney: 6 bags
  • Plum chutney: 4 bags
  • Apricot jam: 3½kg
  • Frozen cooked tomatoes: 1 big bag
  • Chopped onions: 8
  • Superfoods split pea & lentil curry: 2 (singles)
  • Supernature Wellness Chickpea Curry: 1 (single)
  • Puff pastry sheets: 12
  • Filo pastry: 1 unopened packet
In the small freezer in the garage
  • Pana Chocolate icecream: 1
  • Shop bought Ruby red fruit 500g: 1
  • Shop bought raspberries 500g: 1
  • Shop bought passionfruit 500g: 2
  • Shop bought dark fruit blend 500g: 1
  • Shop bought Mango 500g: 1
  • Shop bought mango 1kg: 2
  • Home grown raspberries: 2½kg
  • Shop bought sweetcorn 500g: 1
  • Shop bought Sweetcorn 1kg: 1
  • Shop bought spinach 250g: 2
  • Shop bought Unpodded Edamame beans: 1
  • Shop bought podded Edamame 200g: 1
  • Sliced Light Rye bread: 1
  • Thai Green Curry Tempeh: 1
  • Plain Tempeh: 1
  • Extra firm tofu: 2
  • "Roast Duck": 3
  • Fry's nuggets: 4
  • V2 British classic sausages: 1

I've yet to inventory the freezer in the house!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Sadly I find myself joining the ranks of those no longer able to get anything into their freezers.
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MY GOODNESS, SatNavSaysStraightOn, you have developed "Weasel Syndrome". Weaseling away everything into the freezer for a "rainy day" - just like my wife:laugh::laugh::laugh:
When that happens, I enter "Grizzly Bear Mode". I get stuck into the freezer and start pulling things out, sacking and looting:laugh: and don't cook anything for 4 or 5 days. Then I get questions like
" Oh, that carrot soup was delicious! When did you make that?"
" February 2022..."
 
Right now my freezer has:

- 1,4kg pork cubes
- 500g pork chops
- 2 turkey tenderloins
- 3 whole chickens
- 4 turkey skewers
- 894g pork shoulder steaks
- 876g beef for stewing
- 550g turkey steaks
- 4 chicken legs
- 1kg chicken breasts
- 1kg sardines
- 6 red fish steaks
- 2 sea breams
- 4 codfish steaks
- 700g hake fish
- 1kg Nile perch
- 1 bread
- 1 corn bread
- 3 chilis
- homemade vegetable cubes
- curry sauce
- 2 serving pizza dough
- 5 pieces of ginger
- 4 egg whites
- 1 serving white beans
- 1000ml homemade chicken stock
- 3 serving roasted pork loin
- sugar cookies dough
- 2 serving pasta fagioli
- 3 cheeses

Most stuff has been there for 2 months. The outlier is the sardines that have been there since last summer lol

EDIT: Forgot to add I have a drawer full of vegetables too, I never count them because I usually go through them in 1 - 2 weeks and I keep restocking. I also have a container with vegetable scraps and once it's full I'll make vegetable stock with them.
 
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You seriously know that you have 894 gram pork shoulder and 876 gram stewing beef?
I just know that I possibly have 3 or 4 chickens amongst everything else :)
 
karadekoolaid said:
MY GOODNESS, @SatNavSaysStraightOn, you have developed "Weasel Syndrome". Weaseling away everything into the freezer for a "rainy day" - just like my wife:laugh::laugh::laugh:
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What usually happens is that I'll get a glut of something from the veg plot, or I'll make a larger batch and instead of eating the same thing 4 nights in a row, we'll eat it for 3 nights in a row and I'll freeze the 4th portion.

And sometimes we'll have purchased everything for a meal but plans go a rye and I'll end up making it and freezing it all simply because I refuse to throw away good food...
 
We need to make room in our freezers. 2 x 12 cu ft and 2 fridge freezers. I know I have at least 1 1'/2 lambs 2x hams (1 now. 1 defrosting) 16 litres pasta sauce 30 vege samosas 30 meat samosas 1/2 batch of croquettes. Plus shitloads of other stuff. Wife is going to do before going back to work.

Russ
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I like the sound of these - Tru Fru chocolate-covered raspberries.
But not so much the sound of these -
Bratwurst - beer
Stank Pork Stew 😆
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Beer bratwurst are standard here:

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Walmart


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ALDI

I’ll frequently simmer them in beer, before slapping them under/on the grill/barbecue to crisp up!

The stanky stew is a pork stew I made that included a fair amount of anchovies - I found it inedible, MrsT loved it, so I had to label it in such a way that I don’t mistakenly eat it again. 🤮
 
Time for an updated freezer report:

Fresh cranberries - 1/2 bag
Prime rib bones - 2 bones
Prime rib (cooked) - 1 pound
Chicken - legs - 8
Chicken thighs - 2
Chicken legs/thighs - 2 & 1
Pork chops - boneless - 2
Chorizo - 4
Smoked sausage patties - 2
Hungarian sausages - 3
Pork ribs - 1 rack
Chicken wings - 1.5 pound
Breakfast sausage - 1 pound
Bacon - 1 pack
Hash browns - 1 bag
Pearl onions - 1 bag
Fresh parsnip - 7oz x 2
Fresh butternut squash - 10oz x 2
Frozen corn - 1 bag
Frozen peas - 1 bag
Crinkle-cut fries - 1 bag
Hash brown patties - 2 patties
BS chicken breasts - 2 breasts
Ground pork - 1/2 pound
Irish bangers - 2 packs
Bean & SPAM soup - 2 servings
Beer battered fish - 1 box
Frozen cod - 1 bag

Cornbread - 1/4 round
Pita - 6
Dinner rolls - 1 bag (partial)
Stollen - 1
Butter - 6 sticks
Fudge bars - 1
Tru Fru - 1 bag
Garlic-Provolone sausages - 1.25 pound
Bratwurst - beer - 3
Stank Pork Stew - 4 servings
Nutmeg - 1 jar
Hash brown patties - 1 bag
Doughnuts - 7
Peanut butter fudge - 5" x 5" square
Tourtiere - 1/4 pie


I've also taken to keeping track of some recipe ideas in the same spreadsheet, so I'm thinking beef-barley soup for the prime rib bits, cornbread stuffing for the cornbread, sausage sandwiches, pasta, and pizza with the garlic-provolone sausages, meatloaf or meatballs for the ground pork, and barbecue chicken for the chicken legs.
 
Interesting how different people eat, isn't it?
Of all that stuff you've got, I can only match THREE items: the butter, the chicken breasts and the frozen peas!
I'll have a look in a while and we can compare.
 
I still haven't gotten to the deep freeze, really dreading that. But, the 2 refrigerator freezers are cleaned out and organized so I actually know what's in them.
 
Earwig ho, then.
2 chicken breasts and a bag of chicken tenders. 1 kg skirt of beef ( we use this to make carne mechada - pulled beef). 1/2 kg peeled shrimp. 1 pkt smoked salmon. 1 pkt smoked catfish. 2 bags coconut meat, blitzed in the processor. 1 pkt home made ravioli and 1 pkt home made mezza luna. 1 pkt tequeños (you'll have to look that one up!). 4 frozen spring rolls. 1 pkt spring roll wrappers. 1 pkt wonton wrappers. 1 pkt phyllo pastry. 1 bag finger chiles. 1 pkt frozen peas. 1 pkt dried yeast. 1 container cardamom & pistachio ice cream. 1 tupperware of something completely indistinguishable. 1 bag ice. 1 bag dog bones. 4 ice packs (for bruising).1 mink stole.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I'm curious.

If the corn and the peas are "frozen" in the freezer, how come the parsnip and butternut squash are "fresh"?
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That’s just a way for me to distinguish between what I bought fresh and then froze (parsnips and squash), and what I bought already frozen from the grocer’s (peas and corn).
 
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