Freezer Clean Out

One of the chores that I got to today was cleaning out our storage freezer. Earlier this week I brought home my "good-buy" ice cream at $3.00 off per and could barely fit it into the freezer. Since I have such a hard time finding anything to cook in my house I figured it was about time to find out what I was actually storing. It stunned me the amount of food I have squirrled away. I shouldn't be too surprised, as this tends to be one of my habits. When I find something we eat on sale for a good price I tend to overbuy. You never know, they may not ever put food on sale again, right :).

I cleaned out and inventoried what we had. And we will not be going to the grocery store for anything more than milk and cheese this month.

2 bgs shrimp, 5 lbs bacon, 9 bkfst sausage links, 2 baggies diced ham, 2 ham bones, 1 lb grd turkey, 1lb cube steak, 8 chicken thighs, 9 pork chops, 1 bag flounder fillets, 4lbs grd beef, 1 lb round steak, 5 lbs italian sweet sausage, 1 box fried popcorn shrimp, 1 bag breaded fish fillets, 3 pkgs turkey hot dogs, 1 box hamburger patties, 4 lbs chicken breasts, 2 boxes corn dogs, 1 lrg bag fish sticks, 5 1/2gal ice cream, 1 container homemade ice cream, 3 boxes popsicles, 1 box ice cream sandwhiches, 3 baggies diced green peppers, 4 baggies of assorted sweet peppers, 2 baggies yellow squash, 2 bags stir fry veggies, 1 bag grated zuchinni, 2 bags broccoli, 1 bag strawberries, 2 bags of 'fresh' picked blueberries, 1 bag stuffed shells, 1 bag cheese tortellinis, 1/2 box waffles, 3 frozen lasagnas, 1 chicken tetrazinni, 4 containers ham&bean soup, 4 pizzas, 5 pie crusts.

I really and truly am embarrased by this amount of food that I have on a whole just forgotten about. This list doesn't include the food I did have to trash because it was so old and had already turned.

Then there is our pantry, I have not done an inventory there yet, but considering how much falls on my head when I open it, I figure we are good there also. So our goal this month is to live entirely on what we have in the house already and see how much $ we can save this month.

Peace,

Amy