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OMG, spent the morning sorting out and defrosting the freezer!! How many times have you just popped something in a bag or tub and stuck it in the freezer thinking I will remember what that is?
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Too many.......
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden porn -
me too. and also jam; its always a surprize when i open a jar! but at least i know i will like it.Comment
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I can remember my Grandmother serving up a lovely apple pie and cutting it open to find out it was steak! Good job she hadn't poured on the custard!Comment
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I've come up with a good trick when using old ready meal dishes to store freezer fodder.
Wrap in the usual way with cling film and just scribble contents on a small piece of paper and lodge between the last wrap-around of the film. No sticky bits required!
I do realise this means you have to 'remember' - but its quite easy to grab even a slip of newspaper/pen or the like if a proper label not to hand - but it does save the problem to decide whether what you want out the freezer is a chicken casserole or chicken curry as both look near identical until defrosted/eaten.Comment
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we have freezer surprise quite often. Sometimes, it ends up with us ordering a takeaway as what I thought was a main is stewed fruit :OComment
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Suck it and taste it. If it's sweet use custard if it meaty use gravy. Always works for me. Many a calamity sorted.
I do agree that unless you have named freezer drawers cockups can occur.Comment
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My problem is that the main freezer is a chest freezer (only a smallish one cos there's only me). I start off with the best of intentions (meat on one side, fruit on the other, veg in it's own pile etc) but it somehow always gets mixed up. I did think of putting all the "like" things in a binbag or something but that doesn't always make the best use of space and it's when you're trying to slot things in that the problems seem to occur.Originally posted by Brengirl View PostComment
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I once took out of the freezer what I thought was chicken soup but NO! it was stewed apple!
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
Brian CloughComment
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Tell me about it. I have tried so hard to be orderly in the main chest freezer. I even had a contents board listed left and right etc. My dearly beloved oh would mix and match to make room and confusion resulted.Comment
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Lol! 'Freezer suprise' is as exciting as my life gets some days
We also had great fun once when #1 son 'helpfully' recycled all the labels on our tins
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" he said "Grab your things
I've come to take you home."Comment
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Also remember to sort out your chest freezer now & again.
A few years ago my late father "discovered" a couple of chickens that had been there for over two years he had bought them "cheap"
off the market & had forgot all about them them.
But they were still OK.
PS we have some plums that have been in our freezer for three years.
Must do a plum crumble or a strawberry surprise.Last edited by bubblewrap; 26-06-2010, 05:10 PM.The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
Brian CloughComment
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I was already chuckling at the opening post as OH has been suffering from freezer surprise syndrome recently but this made me laugh out loud. Thanks SeahorseOriginally posted by Seahorse View PostLol! 'Freezer suprise' is as exciting as my life gets some days
We also had great fun once when #1 son 'helpfully' recycled all the labels on our tins
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My wife does a strange thing..
Any left overs, are placed in a tuperware box - and topped up with whatever left overs are present the day after, and so on for a month. At the end of the month, she makes a soup out of it all, sometimes it's alright, othertimes I flush it (she doesn't know this of course) - but it's a free lunch for a day or two out of what would have been waste.Comment
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