What's in your Freezer??

Ever since I inherited my love, dated, magnificent freezer, all I can seem to do is dream about all the wonderful items I can put in there to feed my little peeps. Every single time a food is mentioned, smelled or considered it’s followed up either out loud or on the inside ‘Ooooooo…can you freeze it!?’ With excitement and glee.

Then that is followed by a trip to the computer to google (or search wonderful blogs) about other’s experiences with freezing certain items.

So I find myself watching for meat sales. Meat is the thing in the Brunner house. They want meat every single meal. It’s weird but they’re growing and work hard and beefy people so I guess I should not be surprised. Over Memorial day weekend there was a plethora of meat sales. I found Ground Round for 1.87/lb so bought 12 lbs of that and chicken was also cheap….so I missed and diced and hamburgered a lot over Memorial Day and it was wonderful. 

Except now I’m overrun with baggies of frozen stuff and am having trouble with organization. How do you keep your freezers organized? I do menu plan so build my menu around the items in my freezer but as far as organization, what’s a girl to do!?!?

Here’s what I have (and I am going from memory):

 

Meat: 1 chili, 3 taco meat, 3 sloppy joes, 1 pack (8 each) cheddar ranch burgers, 1 pack (8 each) Plain hamburgers 1 small container of Beef Stew, 1 Bakes Ziti, 3 lasagnas, 35 pigs in a blanket, Honey Dijon

 

Chicken x2, Hawaiian Chicken x2, 1 Chicken with Herb and Lemon, 24 taco corn fritters, 8 lbs frozen ground beef, 3 lbs random chicken breasts and thighs. 

Other: 1 chicken and rice Casserole, 1 veggie mac-n-cheeze, 1 beef and rice (this was not such a good meal..so it’s gonna sit while I ponder).

Breads: 1 loaf applesauce bread, 36 strawberry banana muffins, the mother-load of waffles

I know there is more but I am drawing a blank. How on earth do you organize this mayhem!! Ideals girls!! Let me have ‘em!

Karen