What's in your freezer?

[cjsmith]

Serious question.

If I am ever going to cook, I'm going to cook for one, which is pessimal from a purchasing and storage point of view. My freezer is perennially full.

Friends ask "Full of WHAT?" They have a point. Food! But it's not that simple.

What have I got in there? Seven servings of bean soup (and that's after I've eaten three), one serving of lentil soup, some meatballs, two servings of beef stew, four servings of meatloaf, one ancient serving of Dijon chicken I should really pitch, a couple of pounds of lean ground turkey, two frozen chicken breasts, a big honkin' pile of chopped onion, some chopped bell peppers, a bowl of walnuts, lots of frozen veggies of the Bird's Eye sort of genre, a handful of frozen taquitos, several ice packs, and a tiny Godiva chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream container I'd forgotten about.

I had to look in there to write that paragraph, and truth to tell, I'm surprised by some of it. I didn't remember the meatloaf, the Dijon chicken, or the ice cream. Some of these things were seriously buried, of course.

What would I like to put in there? Multiple kinds of flour. The half a lemon I didn't squeeze into a recipe or the half a can of tomato paste I didn't use. Most importantly, a large variety of finished products, so that I have a big choice of what to pull out of there.

So there's my question. What's in your freezer?

More later.

Comments

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

Lessee, I have 4 packages of frozen ravioli (we just took out 2 and are making them for dinner), 6 bottles of frozen lemon juice (it's all from the tree at my old house - had to stock up since I won't have access any more!), half a loaf of bread, half a pint of ice-cream, some ground coffee, and some sort of random frozen dinner (I think it's thai chicken or something).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*lemon juice envy* :-) :-)

Mmm, bread. Yeah. I'd put bread in, too, if there were more room.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

Well it sorta helps that we just moved recently and I spent the month of moving doing my best to use up frozen stuff so I wouldn't have to move it :) I also moved out of a house where I shared the fridge with 3 people to one where I effectively share it with 1 (roomate #2 doesn't really keep food here). So there's still room to add stuff!