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?

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[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Plastic bags - sharpie marker with date made/purchased and contents

Reusable containers - Dymo labler (purchased for somethng else but comes in handy for this

I buy meat in largish (for us) quantities, divide it into meal sizes, wrap it in deli wrap paper, then foil, then place into a plastic bag labled with the date purchased and what it is.

As long as I can remember we have had a freezer and I learned a long time ago to make sure everything is labled and dated. Freezer burn sucks.