It hit me as I tried to close my freezer yesterday that all the food I had carefully stored up this summer for the winter hadn't been eaten yet. I had dipped into my stock of chicken breasts (scored when they were $1.99 a pound) and some of my pesto cubes, but other than that, nothing had been eaten. So this week is all about cleaning out the freezer, as well as the pantry and refrigerator.
Are you planning a freezer clean out any time soon? What do you have that needs to be used up?
I really do wish you could see my freezer. So we could geek out over it together.
I also have a very full freezer. Unfortunately, when I take something out to cook it — say 1 pound of hamburger which I turn into a pot of chili — I wind up with more to add to the freezer!
Tonight's meal was a potato & spinach casserole using up 1/2 a bag of frozen hash browns and most of a bag of baby spinach that needed to be cooked or blanched & frozen. Recipe makes 4 servings, so there are two servings left over for either a lunch this weekend or to be tossed into the freezer.