What's in your freezer?

[viscousmemories]

This has been my routine for the last six months or so. About once a month I go to Sam's Club (the Costco-esque wholesaler) and buy:


A side of salmon
A big pack of pork loin steaks
A big pack of boneless, skinless chicken breasts
4 lbs. of ground beef
A large pack of sausages.

Then when I get home I cut the salmon into strips about 2" wide, cut the pork loin steaks in half (if they're like 2" thick, which they usually are), and trim the chicken breasts. Then I put all of it (as well as two each of the flavored sausages) in individual ziploc baggies and store them in the freezer.

Then I make a double batch of ragu (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5374#post5374) and have some (with linguini) for dinner that night, put some in the fridge to eat the next day, and put the rest in 4 1.5 cup tupperware containers for freezing. The other two pounds of hamburger I store in two separate baggies in the freezer, for use as hamburgers. But I recently got the idea to make them in to patties before freezing, so I'll probably start doing that.

I also have extra bread, a variety of frozen vegetables, frozen waffles, hot dogs and buns, and Nature's Garden mock sausage patties in there.

[godfry n. glad]

A buncha stuff that ought to be thrown out.

[pescifish]

Similar to vm's, i.e., long term assortment of the stuff I eat on a regular basis.

I go to Costco and buy 6 pounds hamburger
top sirloin
boneless pork loin
chicken breasts or thighs
skirt or flank steak
porterhouse (if they have it)
filet mignon (if they have it)
pork or beef roast (depending on selection)
two whole chicken (for Ron Popeil Rotisserie Grill)
I do the same thing as vm and split all of these jumbo packs into 1-2 portions stored in ziploc freezer bags.

ice maker and ice
loaves of bread
corn and flour tortillas
a ton of frozen veggies of all types (my bird and I eat a lot of vegetables both fresh and frozen)
frozen berries (for my bird, when/if I run out of fresh)
several different types of nuts for salads
millet sprays and bird chow
powdered bird vitamins
coffee (will never be used)
butter
cheese (shredded parmesan, romano, hunk blue, sometimes chedder and/or swiss)
blue ice
frozen pink lemonade, hawaiian punch (leftover from my mom's funeral fall 2001)
girl scout cookies (will never be eaten)
roast beef or turkey I've roasted, stored in 2-3 serving size portions
some frozen dinners, store bought lasagna (jic)

I almost never have ice cream, though I do have 2 pints (choc and pralines & cream) from a midshift run to the on-base 31 flavors a coworker insisted on about 4 weeks ago. Ice cream tends to evaporate because I never really get in the mood for it.

[Ymir's blood]

Three Healthy Choice microwave dinners. They've been in there since last year since I've been trying to actually cook for myself again.

[Godless Wonder]

Way too many Marie Callender's frozen dinners

[livius drusus]

A couple of bags of Cascadian Farm (http://www.cfarm.com/cfarm/products/default.asp) frozen veggies
A box of Quorn (http://www.quorn.us/) patties
A couple of boxes of Boca breakfast patties (http://www.bocaburger.com/main.aspx?m=meatless_breakfast)
Two packages of chicken breasts
A bag of garbage which would rot and stink up the regular trash can (freezing the wet trash was my grandmother's wise idea).

[beyelzu]

-one body minus a head

-one slightly used hacksaw

-one half empty bottle of skyy vodka

-6 miscellaneous fingers

-one human kidney prepped for transport

-a bag of tater tots

[Beth]

Oh the shame. This thread made me look into my freezer and gaze upon my mess. Time to cook a bunch of nearly empty bags of frozen veggies and meat tonight. Besides that, I have a pie shell, about 7 fruit juice popsicles, a frozen turkey, left over ground sirloin that I formed into patties, 10 pound bag of chicken leg quarters, breaded okra, 3- pound bag of field peas with snaps, four pretzels, 2 waffles, perch fillets, salmon.

[lisarea]

We have a whole upright freezer in the garage, and I don't feel like going out to check, so I'm probably forgetting stuff:

Boneless skinless chicken breasts
Probably hamburger, or else we better go get some
Various and sundry meat, usually. Just whatever we got on sale
Chicken stock. I make up a huge batch about once a month, and freeze it in varying quantities for different uses
"Condensed" cream of mushroom soup, which I make periodically. I make it real thick so it not only takes up less space, but so it can be used as a sauce as is or with milk & water added as soup
Roasted Hatch chiles from the bushel I got in season
I think we are out of apple pies, but I had some in there from the bushel of apples I got when they were in season
I don't remember if I actually froze any applesauce from Apple Week, but if I did, that should be there, too
Various and sundry weird things like soft pretzels and those dumb waffles the Little Muffin likes, and I think some store-boughten pumpkin pies for some reason
Almonds and pecans and walnuts
Popsicles and chocolate chip mint ice cream sandwiches

[livius drusus]

What's a bushel?

[lisarea]

What's a bushel?

35.239072 liters

I totally just knew that off the top of my head, too. I swear I didn't even have to look it up or anything!

Actually, I think most places sell bushels by eyeball. Especially the crusty old farmer types I buy perishable foods from. Like the chiles come, I think, in premeasured burlap bags, then you pick one out and they roast it further reducing the volume and slop it all into a big black lawn and leaf type bag. So in my personal vocabulary, a bushel is: Pretty much.

[livius drusus]

35.239072 liters

I totally just knew that off the top of my head, too. I swear I didn't even have to look it up or anything!

Dammit, woman. I done told you a hundred times I'm the most gullible fool you'll ever know. Don't make me hit Google to find out that you were obviously fucking with me and that I continue to be the perfect mark.

Actually, I think most places sell bushels by eyeball. Especially the crusty old farmer types I buy perishable foods from. Like the chiles come, I think, in premeasured burlap bags, then you pick one out and they roast it further reducing the volume and slop it all into a big black lawn and leaf type bag. So in my personal vocabulary, a bushel is: Pretty much.

So a bushel is a big bag of crap? Did the apples come in a big bag too?

[lisarea]

So a bushel is a big bag of crap? Did the apples come in a big bag too?

Box. But now I'm thinking I might have lied, and it was more like some number of pecks or a half a bushel or some other way that farmers trick you into thinking you're getting your money's worth.

A bushel of apples weights about 42 pounds and will yield 20-24 quarts of applesauce.

So I dunno. Maybe it was a bushel or thereabouts. It was a pretty heavy-assed box and I made a thousand tall-assed pies and a big batch of applesauce and I baked a bunch of them and stuff. I am trying to picture if it would have made five or six gallons of applesauce. And: Probably.

Actually, one fact I do remember is that the girl selling them didn't speak English and the best way I can think of to indicate volume would probably be to say something like 'pee-kane-ya' or 'no pee-kane-ya' (phonetically because I can't spell), so I was just buying a big box of apples, which I looked at and decided it was a good amount of apples in a box, and then later called a bushel probably because I was trying to act like a big shot.

And then I got all busted by livius drusus.

[livius drusus]

All the rest of y'all take note: don't even try to make your freezers out to be packed with fabled wonders like some cave in the Arabian Nights because I will find you out, yes I will.

[Dingfod]

Hell, a bushel isn't a bag or a box or even a basket, it is a volume representing a cylindrical container 18.5" inches in diameter and 8 inches high, 8 gallons to be precise and official. There are four pecks to a bushel, or 32 quarts. A bushel of wheat, the U.S. standard of measure, weighs about 60 pounds. Some farm products like dry beans are sold in hundredweights, or 100 pounds, instead of by the bushel.

In the warrenly / inland wave freezer:
Michelina's Lean Gourmet Swedish Meatball Dinner
Michelina's Budget Gourmet Chicken with Fettucine
4 Healthy Choice frozen dinners
1-1/2 lb. broccoli spears
3 lbs. cut broccoli
chicken soup stock
leftover sausage gravy
1/2 lb. mixed vegetables
3 packages of Oscar Mayer Real Bacon Bits
2 packets of Teriyaki flavored sauce
a 5 pound beef brisket
10 lb bag of boneless skinless chicken breasts
4 lb bag of catfish filets
1 lb beef stew meat
1 package Totino's Supreme Pizza Rolls
1 lb beef ribs
2 lbs beef sirloin steak
2 lbs pork tenderloin chops
4 lbs butter
1/2 bag of Tyson popcorn chicken chunks
2 lbs chicken breasts
1 bag Skillet Gourmet Chicken Alfredo
1/2 bag corn
1/2 bag of baker's coconut
1/2 bag of chopped walnuts
4 bean burritos

First one that complains about being hungry around here gets pimp-slapped.

[Dingfod]

So I dunno. Maybe it was a bushel or thereabouts. It was a pretty heavy-assed box...It is thought the word "bushel" evolved in English from the French word for box, "boîte" (bois meaning wood).

[Beth]

We used to buy bushels of produce and freeze them when I was a kid. We traveled up to Georgia once just to pick a trunkful of peaches, drive home, and peel and freeze them. Fun stuff.

[lisarea]

BUSHEL NAZIS, the lot of you!

Fine. I am changing my answer. All I have in my freezer is:


A small brownish pebble with gray striations, which I sometimes suck on to trick myself into thinking I'm eating food.


And yes, I am lying about the striations. It is just a plain and not fancy or interesting pebble. In fact, for all I know, it is just a little desiccated turd or something.

I hope you're proud of yourselves now. Your unstoppable juggernaut of bushel related logic has demolished my carefully constructed internet-based facade, and you have revealed me as the turd-sucking pretender to the "Guy with the Bushels in the Freezer" throne that I am.

[Dingfod]

Hey, at least you have HEARD of a bushel.

[Ex-zombie]

And yes, I am lying about the striations. It is just a plain and not fancy or interesting pebble. In fact, for all I know, it is just a little desiccated turd or something.


:roflmao:


A halfpack of Eggo waffles, a Stouffer's lasagna, the top of a wedding cake, and fudgesicles.

[Dingfod]

I should've made freezer plural because I was counting both of them. We have the side-by-side refrigerator freezer AND a huge chest freezer (big enough for human bodies WITH heads: Beyelzu!).

[beyelzu]

I should've made freezer plural because I was counting both of them. We have the side-by-side refrigerator freezer AND a huge chest freezer (big enough for human bodies WITH heads: Beyelzu!).
looks like I may need to upgrade.


:)

[Beth]

Just to add to the bushel thing. The bushel basket makes great free laundry baskets and waste baskets- that is, if the farmer isn't a cheapskate and insists on keeping the basket. :p

[Bella]

Just to add to the bushel thing. The bushel basket makes great free laundry baskets and waste baskets...

lamb shoulder
two bags of "baby corn blend" from Green Giant
a breakfast Hot Pocket (eek!)
two OXO ice cube trays full of ice
a martini shaker
a martini glass
Cointreau
Grey Goose Vodka
three ice packs for my cooler


Not too exciting - but y'all should invest in an OXO ice cube tray. They're awesome.

[livius drusus]

Everything OXO is great. Every last thing.

[pescifish]

Sheesh, with so little stocked up in your freezers you guys must go to the market every damn day! :bleh:

I hate shopping, especially grocery shopping. I used to do it no more than 4-6 weeks, with a trip to Costco every other month. I was able to keep myself and parrot in fresh fruit and veggies during that whole time, too, because I have an excellent refrigerator and I know which veggies last.

I can't do that anymore because I can't fucking see well enough to focus on all those brightly colored products on shelves for a full hour at a time in the market, so I'm forced to go about 2-3 times a month for less stuff at a time. I still keep my freezer stocked with at least 2 months worth of food, though (i.e., Costco runs are still on the old schedule.)