Labeling food units

[cjsmith]

For all you folks out there who make large batches of stuff and then divide it up for storage, to eat later:

How do you label the containers?

Me, I'm freezing and refrigerating big piles of soup, and I'm sticking masking tape on the lids of the containers and then writing the contents and date on the tape. When I eat the stuff, I peel off the tape before washing the container. This masking tape thing seems like a pain in the butt, but I'm not sure I can come up with anything better. Grease pencil? Writing directly on disposable bags (vacuum-sealed or whatever)? What do you folks do?

Comments

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

If you actually find a grease pencil, let me know. I've been searching everywhere for them and can't find one.


I use ziploc freezer bags mostly. But for soup like items I've got some quart freezer containers that have a space to write on them. Ball point seems to come off okay...but I still want that damn grease pencil!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I really want a grease pencil. With one of those, I can write an end time on the side of the crock pot, too. Handy when you're running two of them or when you haven't slept properly since May and can't remember what you did.

I will totally let you know if I find one. I haven't yet been to an art supply store.

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Art supply or hardware should have them.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a true hardware store, the kind that used to be on the corner when we were kids. (Of course, when we were kids, the corner drugstore would have had grease pencils too.) I know where one of those wonderful little old hardware stores can be found, but it's in Louisville. :-) Perhaps the big chain stores like Home Depot would have something like that. I'm not often near one these days.

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

You might try Rural Supply in Los Gatos. That's where I go for chicken feed. It's a proper hardware store of the old school.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Have you tried a hardware store? That's usually where I find them.