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Kitchen Freezer Inventory & Menu Plan
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- Today I am tackling the kitchen freezer. Time to go through them, organize, inventory and make adjustments. I'm also menu planning for the week based on what I've found in that freezer.
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For those hot dogs, cut up about 6, put in the bottom of a 9x9 pan, top with chili beans, then top that with cornbread batter. Bake in a 350 oven for about 25 minutes. One pot meal..YUM!
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This actually sounds delicious. When my oldest was young he even remembers we used to slice hot dogs diagonal and that's what we put on pizza when we didn't have other meat we wanted to use. My son said he was talking to a coworker the other day and apparently this coworker grew up was sliced hot dogs on their Pizza as well. I thought I was the only one trying to do it in a Frugal way. But your dish sounds amazing
I do that with hotdogs I put them in my iron skillet instead and I Coll it poor man corn dogs
I try and make meal planning so complicated… by coming up with crazy recipes and extra ingredients then I just don’t cook at all and order out! Thank you for showing me just picking the main protein and veg and putting it on paper gives me the bones to make a good home cooked meal and leaving the new recipes to a couple times a month
I have played that game too! 😂
Leisa I am just so glad you are showing us how you do it because the inventory idea has been super intimidating to me. Somehow I thought I would have to do it all at once. And I now know I can do a bit at a time. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
Tip: peel and smash your bananas in a ziplock before freezing (mark how many are in your bag). It’s easier and faster to defrost and use and you don’t have to peel a frozen banana!
I do that and I also if I have a whole bunch of bananas I will freeze them in the allotments needed for recipes.
Can't you make dog food from the freezer burnt stuff? Your local animal shelter might be interested - when my MIL passed I got to clean out her freezer - 4 large turkeys, bought on sale, not premium quality to start with, but the animal shelter was VERY grateful to get them. Let's face it, they are not well funded to start with, and these days it's just going to get worse. Sadly, one man's ceiling is another man's floor.
I do just that with any freezer burned chicken I have, it goes to our 4 dogs. Any badly freezer burned veggies or fruits I have go to my chickens and turkeys! 😊
Yep..I can dog food up by cutting off the freezer burned stuff. Any old foodstuffs that I can’t use in dog food goes to my chickens or if it’s produce that chickens won’t eat ( I freeze white pine needles and herbs sometimes) then I compost it.
@@pattijomcgrath6783 this is a great idea thank you for sharing this
Great Idea. Never thought of that
It was like heaven to get my freezers cleaned and organized. I feel so accomplished. Put a bunch of veggies in the dehydrator....next is all the frozen fruit that's been in there since summer.
Thanking my friend Krista Chapman Snelling for informing me of this exciting informative Channel!!! So much to learn, so little time to learn it all!
Thanks everyone for the ideas!
I've used freezer burned shrimp in gumbo & it turned out fine, don't abandon all hope!...lol
I was going to say it's not ruined, just not the best tasting. Some folks wld still eat it. I'd definitely chunk that steak to my dogs as a treat. They wldn't let it last long enough to notice how it tasted.
I was going to suggest cutting that shrimp up and making it into a hot crab dip--only with shrimp instead. Gumbo is a great idea too!
I cleaned out my 2nd prepper closet tonight and came across 5 pounds of steel cut oats that my parents won't eat and gave me. I stuck them in a water cooler this fall and forgot where I had them. I love to cook with a combination of oatmeal flour and white flour, so I just processed all of this free oatmeal onto my oatmeal flour!
Never thought to meal plan AND clean out my fridge freezer at the same time. GENIUS!!
I just inventoried the things I canned, all the herbs, The fridge, and the freezers…. Oh and the cabinets. I found it eye opening! Husband is on board and we are gonna see if we can go the whole month and only buy coffee and Diet Coke lol (don’t judge!) I loved this exercise. Now to plan meals
We came across $4.99/ can coffee at Grocery Outlet (?Martingale out of NY, an old company per the label) and invested the grocery money into enough to "last a year" when combined with what we already had on the shelf. Wee have tp, also found at a good to excellent price then purchased in quantity) and coffee for sure.
If I may, with your pepperonis, you can make a tomato soup and add your pepperonis and other favorite 'pizza' fixings and herbs and spices to make a 'pizza soup'.
It is probably too late now but consider making some shrimp stock out of the shrimp that are probably not freezer burned to the point of being flavor changed. Thaw and smell plus squeeze first to determine if usable.
Take that steak and also thaw it in the fridge. Feel it for stickiness and also smell (especially the fat) before determining it must be tossed. Slow cook it with plenty of flavors be it caramelized inthe oven, crockpot, or stock in a pot. Keep the Temps less than 250 F but ideally between 200 and 225 to keep from further drying it out during cooking.
If freezer burnt veggies haven't begun to actually turn rancid, you can make a crock pot stock/ soup base out of them by cooking on low to draw as much goodness out of them as possible then strain the actual veggies out.
We all have been there throwing out food and feeling guilty. I try to do my freezer inventory every quarter...4 times a year. I don't worry about my can goods as much. Love your channel. 💕
This is awesome. Needed this bably . So much food waste being sick last 3 weeks. Sent to my oldest ., been trying to get back in to meal planning . She had first successful week in a while. This willhelp her stay motivated
I just found a TON of walnuts when doing one of my freezers. I turned it into the maple walnut syrup in the Ball book 😋 its so yummy! I'm watching this while cleaning out my own freezers tonight! Glad it's not just me spending the last days of the year doing inventory on "all the things"! ❤ I just recently found a rack of ribs from the beginning of 2020. There was not a bit of freezer burn on them. I cooked them up for my son's birthday, and they were delicious! The quality of some foods can change over time the longer it sits in the freezer but USDA claims anything frozen is safe to eat indefinitely. Loving these videos. They are motivational!
Great job with the inventory. I learned the hard way several years ago with rib eyes. Thankfully, they were *much cheaper than they are now and bought on sale. Since then, NOTHING goes in the freezer unless it has been vacuumed sealed. Those tuna steaks look good! Hoping you will make a video of how you fix them.
I dont know how that one slipped by me...lol
It is also super nice to see that losing a little isn’t like losing it all! Thank you for being real!!
Oh we’ve all done it 😩 no judgement here! Vacuum sealing everything these days so I don’t loose anymore valuable meat unless it’s a small stockpile I’m building of clearance meats to make up a full canners worth ☺️
Love discovering what is in the back of my freezer that I have forgotten about 🤪
My refrigerator freezer is much more of an in-out, quicker use storage. It is also where spills of one type or another are much more likely to occur; sometimes Mr Nobody visits more often. Items coming out of the remote freezers often move into the fridge freezer before being used; especially the "use first" items. Often items to be put in a remote freezer end up in the refrigerator freezer before being trundled off. The fridge freezer is where ill put the about to go bad produce I dice, slice, mash, and shred to hold then use quickly. Its where the small portions of or portioned left overs go to for short term storage, the dry goods beans I cook then freeze for use, and anything else ill be using in the short term of 0 to 3 months. I also use it to freeze cubed mellons to extend the value of a sale into an additional week(s, but it seems despite how much gets frozen it often doesn't last weeks in the fridge freezer). Between using it for short term storage and spills, the refrigerator freezer gets emptied and cleaned at least twice a year and I am NOT a happy camper if a cleaning doesn't last a month or two. - I use bread bags to help coral smaller units of items in the freezers.
You could chop up some of those nuts really fine, and dredge, your fish, or chicken with it. Then sautee and finish in the oven,, its really good.
That's what mine is like. I really need to clean that out. I'm scared to look. Hahaha. But you give me hope. I will figure it all out.
You've got this ❤️
Those kitchen freezers are blackholes! I have recently tacked it by doing the following.... Smoothie ingredients and ice pops in one drawer; opened things in the other- like parts of veg bags, frozen garlic, tomato paste blobs, frozen herb butter, frozen herbs blobs, frozen chic broth blobs, frozen orange and lemon blob, etc. - anything that I would use as an addition to a recipe, soup, etc while cooking. This has acutally made the freezer much more useable since it saves me time going to the big freezers.
i loved this video and series - THANKS SO MUICH!!! 😀
Ideas for the little smoked sausages, chop it up and put it in scalloped potatoes or soups or make a sauce with cranberry sauce and ketchup. Pepperoni is great in pasta sauce.
I inventoried/cleaned my freezer today, too. It was great and also frustrating. I had two packs of macadamia nuts from 2016. Many packages of freezer burned chicken, ham, flank steak, garlic breads, etc... Not again, I told myself. So much energy/money/resources sunk into buying them and then just not using them, makes me disappointed with myself. However, I will grant myself grace, because there is nothing I can do about it now, but do better in the future. I really appreciate the pantry challenges on youtube, for this very reason. Just keeping up with things and doing what I need to with them.
use the bananas and blueberries for smoothies for lunch.
I had that on my planner for a week, and got to it today. I have 2 freezers, besides the regular house fridge/freeze. I cleaned the upright and organized it. Over the last 3 months it has gotten out of hand. I am putting my list into an inventory sheet now as I listen to you tube. Tomorrow, I hope to do the chest freezer. That one has boxes of fish and bacon so I know it isn't bad. We bought a 1/4 cow in Oct and that is in tote bags. I won't be loosing money this time. I threw away some food in at the beginning of the year so I try to FoodSave anything that goes into the chest. Thanks for all your help!
Walnuts have some nutrient in it that helps with the absorption of vitamin D3, and help you liver reduce fat stored there. I eat a small amount of walnuts every day.
We have two refrigerators( w/ bottom freezers) and one upright freezer. Last year I put only meats in one of the fridge freezers. Sometimes the meat spills over to one of the others, but for the most part it is working.
My fridge freezer is what I pull from first, when I am meal prepping for the month - I check here first, than go to the other freezers and shop. I need to be taken inventory of the other freezers. You are the ultimate reminder for me. Thank you as always for sharing - Happy New Year 🥂
My chickens love freezer food
Handy hints- make stir fry with calivegs&Cali rice with the tuna. Nuts & fruit use in oatmeal & cereal (if y'all eat those) pasta bake with pepperoni, (can be keto) so many options..
I use the top drawer of my freezer as a 'staging' area for what needs used in the next 10 days or so.
Lil smokies wrap in bacon bake till cooked then dip in la choy sweat n sour sauce rebake until heated through can serve or toss in crockpot for parties..m so yum
I use that top drawer for mostly canning jars full of toasted nuts, toasted oatmeal, SAF yeast, raw cashews, raw almonds, almond flour, backup seasonings, etc. I put a plastic grid-sided bin in the right third of that drawer for things like bacon and sausage and hotdogs and small bags of veg so that I can find it all. Does your top drawer fit quart canning jars? So handy for storying stuff. If the food doesn't come up to the top, or as I use it, I crumple up wax paper or plastic wrap to fill up the air space. Oh, and I put cold packs in the top drawer because the kind I have fits exactly standing up behind the bin.
With all the nuts, blueberries, and banana I have came up with banana nut bread, muffins, cookies, pancakes, smoothie,. For the meat, roast, cabbage rolls, stir fry etc.... enough for a week of food. You made me hungry.
pepperoni stuffed chicken breast with cheese spinach etc (fillet lengthwise and pound thin not too thin) then lay pepperoni on each breast piece little cheese spinach(optional} roll and a tiny bit of sauce(tomato or lighter) and panko sprinkle on top bake YUM
Ok now that just sounds delicious
I have never done this 😮. This has inspired me to do this and see what is happening in my 3 freezers and what I can make. Thank you for the inspiration!
We have three chest freezer, one standup freezer a extra refrigerator with freezer in garage and lastly the kitchen fridge freezer like yours. We are hunters so we have venison and hog in two chest along with cow we processed. Im dreading this chore with the others. It has to be done so I can start canning. It is a job. I know this seems like a lot of meat, we actually feed 8 adults and 6 kids.
I am printing my planner and putting it into a notebook. I have been inventorying my canned jars and preps. So I just need to add my working pantry and fridge/freezers. Big job just one step at a time. Thanks for showing us how you do it.
Thank you Leisa, I have been wanting to do something like this, just needed some inspiration.
You’re welcome 😊
I’m just learning how to can and found you from watching That 1870’s Homestead
I say cook it and see. I had a very old roast in the bottom of the freezer. I was going to dump it but tried to cook it first....it was totally fine.
Appreciate seeing how you use planner with inventory. I just cleaned out our freezer .
I estimate I wasted $10 in partial bags of frozen veggies, $5 in leftover burger in small leftover containers. Now to inventory.
I am gonna have to make several sheets. I have several freezers I have forgotten to go thru for 2 years. Will be spending the next few weeks doing 1 a week. Thank you for the planner idea
What you call backstrap we've always referred to as loin. A rose by any other name, right? So, my favorite venison recipe came from a guy at a game dinner years ago. Venison in Currant Jelly: Slice the meat about 1/4", dredge in flour with salt and pepper. As it cooks in a large, deep pan in a bit of butter, (deep pan, you'll need to stir this later on), keep removing pieces to a plate as they are done cooking. When all are cooked through, scrape all of that good stuff on the bottom up and add red currant jelly and red cooking wine. This is off of the top of my head...it's about a third to a half cup of the wine, and the small jar of currant jelly. Jelly melts, mixes with the wine and scrapings and makes a sauce. Put meat back in until warmed through again. Serve with mashed potatoes - very good. Family favorite. I can't remember the ratio of jelly to wine, but you're experienced, you'll feel it out for a nice thick sauce. :) I've doubled the wine and jelly before because this is so good on mashed potatoes. :)
That sounds delicious
Love watching how you organize.
CRANBERRIES….make juice…. So so easy. Rinse and pick any stems Fill jars about 1/3 full. Make a simple syrup or you can add sugar to jar. Water bath or steam can.
I actually ordered the steam canner you showed on your channel but haven’t tried it yet. We didn’t see many cranberries here before thanksgiving so finding any marked down after Christmas was a no go.
Thankfully a friend has a restaurant and is ordering me some from his supplier. We like it just as much as our homemade Concord grape juice. Usually the cranberry cocktail juice is less than 14% juice. The thru cranberry juice only here is about $15 a qt.
Even folks who don’t like cranberries have loved my juice. Promise it’s worth a try
I have a ton that I've juiced already, so good!
Good idea that I never thought of. I just used some 2 year old frozen cranberries, some apples that were getting soft and some overly dried raisins to make a fruit crisp. Food salvaged.
dogs can eat shrimp. doctor it up with stock and rice. dependding on size of dog will termine how much shrimp the dog can eat
My kitchen freezer is my staging freezer. Things we use frequently from the freezer - liquor, flour, cornmeal, rice, frozen veg that I use for dinner, chicken and hamburger that I use from frozen, and my extra sammich meat. We don't have a walmart here so once a month I make a run and buy a months worth of meat for our lunches and freeze all but 1 weeks worth. And the freezer packs for our lunches. My deep freezes are what I need to go through the most. I discovered 3 bags, 1 is labeled chicken bones for broth but the other two, I'm guessing were pork... but may end up in trashcan camp. I forgot abt a bag of dehydrated cherries I'd made for my husband last yr and found them under a bag of catfish today. I got a vacuum sealer for Christmas so I'm going to thaw them and bag them up in smaller portions for hubs to take to work. He LOVES dehydrated cherries to snack on.
I just cleaned out my freezer because I had to in order to fit a meat delivery for my pets. I did not think I was going to be able to get it in but I did. I was forced to ditch some frozen food, that probably was not so healthful, and it had freezer burn too. I hate to throw away food! I always say "Im sure I can use it in something". But..eventually it has to go. That freezer burned shrimp and beef, the dogs would love! Anything the animals at my house can eat, freezer burned or not, they get it.
Lil Smokie idea: my husband made/canned beanie weenies using lil smokies this year. He took them for his lunches and said the homemade bw's were much better than the ones from the store (and much cheaper to make too!)
Your bottom freezer looks so much better than mine. I probably have frozen stuff in that pull out shelf that is probably 5 years old.
Make pigs in a blanket with canned biscuits and lil smokies. Use cranberries for cranberry jello using walnuts.
Thank you for showing that now I’m afraid to even show what’s in my freezer on my first refrigerator. My second refrigerator is even worse. Oh man here I go cleaning out my freezer.
Yes! That darn top drawer hides so much food. Fortuneately, we can give the burnt items to the chickens and recoup (I use the term re-coop 😉) some of the money. Or at the very least it makes me feel better. Lol
I definitely need to do a freezer inventory as I forget what I have and it just stays in there full to the brim. Lots of meal planning to do with this.
OMG - We are fully defrosting, cleaning, and repacking our small chest freezer. Even though its small, it is deeper than an arm's reach and things do get lost down there. I knew we had some butter at the bottom, we've gone sparingly with the butter on top for some time now, and we resisted buying more at almost $4 to almost $5 per pound. There was a whole CASE of 18 pounds total at the bottom of that freezer; no wonder there was a nice flat spot to pack things on top of! This was butter we came across at $2/ lb and as the sell by date drew near it dropped to $1/ lb. We are in butter heaven right now.
Your freezers are in really good shape. Just recently took inventory of ours. Thanks for sharing with us
Well I did both of my freezers. I bet I could go through February and eat out of them plus can turkey breaststroke and pork butter and still eat dinner for 3 from pantry and freezer. This has been a great experience for canuary
Well done! You have inspired me to clean out both freezers! Thank you!
Hubby has woken up every day this past week to find "stuff" all over what he considers his eating-devotional counter. I thought I had a good knowledge of what was in my cupboards, but I found all sorts of things, including a few out-of-date that I will now use first. Best of all, I noted down where and what and used my new Sharpie to write dates on various items to make those more visible. It was a very satisfying experience. Now this morning I've thrown lettuce, Swiss chard, spinach, beet, chives, and other seeds into a part of the garden that hubby prepared yesterday. We have rain forecast, and that awful cold is gone, so I think we're ready to start the New Year. Freezer was done last week. THANK you for this encouragement.
You did it!
You're a brave soul Leisa! I'm afraid to check mine out 😏🥴😋
Great ideas for inventorying.
I need to do my kitchen freezer! I do really good with my chest freezer but my kitchen freezer is just a mess. Thanks for the inspiration! Blessings!
Thank you for sharing your freezer shrimp fail. You prompted me tom take all my shrimp out of the freezer and vacuumed sealed them into meal size portions. I'll be doing that from now on. And now, on to my own kitchen freezer and meal plan for next week.
I just did this the other day. Now I’m really trying to use everything.
Thank you, you have inspired me to tackle my 5 freezers ( I know it's crazy to have that many)
No it isn't... its a dream
I made smoothie ice cubes and bouillon ice cubes with all the freezer bits
Leisa do you have a recipe/video for blueberry lemon bread? Sounds delightful ❤
I'll bring you along next week
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get the little bins at dollar tree to organize cupboards and refrigerator/freezer space.
I also set ire to 10 .00 to shrimp
With the little smokies, wrap in 1/2 or 1/4 trip of bacon(depending on bacon size) and bake at 400 for 20-30 minutes as a low carb option that is yummy. Sprinkle a little brown sugar or swerve brown sugar for a candy meat option. 🤤,
lol, i get the wrong lil' smokies all the time too! we like them cooked with baked beans or put ing the crock pot with calico beans, yum! i have also used freezer-burned shrimp in jumbolia and it was fine
I went through my kitchen freezer! Thanks for inspiring me!
Great job!
Freezers are graveyards where food goes to die. Constant vigilance is key to freezers.
busy day, i inventoried 3 freezers!! woo-hoo me!
I wish my fridge freezer looked like your before lol. I need to get out a couple of big coolers and get on organizing them. I know what's in them for the most part because we are creatures of habit. but far to often lately I end up changing dinner plans because I can't easily put my hands on what I want to set out to thaw. I learned a long time ago to never put un vac sealed meat in the freezer, not even if it was for later in the week.
smokey links with bbq and grape jelly for New Years.'.
Don't feel so bad. I find refrigerator freezers don't keep food as well as full freezers. Maybe because the refrigerators are opened often..
Last year I bought my girls Food Savers for Xmas. They r still thanking me. Last week I went thru my frig freezer - to my surprise it only needed re-adjusting. NOW I MUST do my chest freezer. I know there are "pitchable unknowns" at the bottom. I only want too do this on garbage night, because most of my freezer stuff are meats. Thanx Leisa for taking us on this "reminder" journey. Great video, as usual...
So glad your freezer looks like mine. Lol'ed when I saw the Wholleys Scallops, I'm originally from Pittsburgh and shopped there often 😄
Love your fridge
You can make canned pie filling from the pecans. Great for a gift or quick pie
We just replaced our fridge/freezer which was similar to yours, it also had a chest type freezer. We got a new good ol" side by side. Too much gets buried and forgotten in the chest freezers, I'll never have one again!
Leisa! I thought I was the only one who had “deceased” bananas in my freezer!😂
I always gave dead nanners haha
I have a bunch in mine too
You're not alone. I can see a bunch of black bananas in my bottom freezer drawer. I've no idea why I put them in there, but banana bread sounds good 😂😂
@@earthmagic1 banana bread always sounds good...lol
Banana scones, yum
Those are the best hotdogs in the world I have eaten them since I was a child and I am 76 now those were the only kind that my mom and dad bought also
Your freezer looks just like mine minus the freezer pops.
The shrimp are fine in scampi or Alfredo! Dogs would love the meat
freezer burn doesn't hurt it, does it? once its cooked? or feed it to the pets/critters in the woods. But just vacuum seal them to prevent the burn
Didn't realize I could store yeast in freezer. Will do so in future with my pandemic backup.
Mr Sutton has excellent taste in hot dogs! I used to have to go back home to Michigan to get Koegel hot dogs. Now I can sometimes get them down here in Indiana at Meijer. I love the “skin” on them!
I bought a garden kneeler to help with the lower part of kitchen. It might be more comfortable than a bucket.
I use my dogs bed to get to my bottom freezer!
Some very good ideas.
Omg.. we are in Tawas, MI yearly to visit my in laws in Oscoda. I didn't know about the blueberry farm.
Think I am going to do this in the new year. Going to do the meal plan also
Excellent!! I hate setting fire to anything also!!❤xxoo
Good motivation to do it
Those Lil smokies are good in the crackpot with a barbecue / grape jelly sauce. I've made mini pigs and blankets with them. My husband used to love them cooked in saukraut over mashed potatoes or with fried potatoes, green peppers and onions. I like them with fried cabbage best I think.