*Making Mo Space In Your Freezer*

By Jaden

14 February 2004

We have a small 7.0 cu/ft freezer. It’s actually a lot bigger that it sounds. Anyway, when we go shopping we try to get the most for less. Today we did some grocery shopping and picked up a bunch of meats. Instead of just throwing it all in the freezer here’s what we do.

Most of the meats are removed from their original packing and divided up into Ziplock bags.

We’re a small family and won’t eat a big tray of chicken in during one meal. It only makes sense to lessen the portion. That way none of it’s wasted.

For example:

Here are 3 nice juicy steaks. They were in a Styrofoam tray that is about 2 sizes too BIG. Why waste valuable freezer space with a ½ empty package?

I easily fit those into 1 1qt Ziplock.

Whenever you remove something from it’s packaging make sure you stick a date on the new package. If you’re not good at telling the difference in frozen meats, also write the contents on the bag.

Got a good deal on a 5lb bag of hot dogs. I figured that we’d eat 8 per meal so that’s what each bag contains.

You can fit a lot more Ziplocks in a freezer than you can those big trays.

The freezer is literally almost stuffed. These bags fit into small areas right nice too.

Jaden