Your freezer contents may rotate in and out seamlessly. Most of our freezers don't work that way. We have it stuffed full of items unrecognizable because of ice or freezer burn. Many of us have an additional chest or upright freezer which is also stuffed.
Some suggestions I've come across through the years:
1. Organize the freezer foods into like groups: vegetables, frozen dinners, pre-made meals, breads, meat portions. This makes it easier to locate items and then use them in a timely way.
2. Freeze meat into meal portions. It's a hard lesson when you've frozen the on-sale six chicken breasts together and only need two for a meal. They do not separate easily!!
3. Label and date what you place in the freezer. That way, you use the foods frozen earlier and don't allow them to languish until freezer burn sets in.
4. Have a wipe off board near the freezer that lists what items currently reside there. This makes meal planning easier and cuts down on waste. Look over that list before you go shopping.
5. If your family aren't leftover lovers, freeze the leftovers into individual lunches or for when only one person is home.
My challenge is for us to look through our freezers this week and simplify that space by tossing too old or unrecognizable items, sorting the food into categories, and making a list of contents to keep by the freezer.
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