An End to the Freezer Cleanout

We had not reached the bottom of the freezer when I decided to call a halt! to the proceedings. Oh, we're still eating out of our freezer, but the method that was being used to achieve the goal was not working fast enough. No matter how many meals I fixed it seemed as though we were making very little headway.

It's a very good problem to have. Can you imagine being so blessed with abundant stores of food that even after you've eaten two weeks worth of meals from the freezer's innards you're still pulling more and more and more out of it? There's a Bible lesson in there and our cup was obviously running over!

To get to the end of my cleaning task I utilized our cooler and the upstairs freezer to store all of the frozen meat and bread until the time that I had the chest freezer defrosted and sanitized. This worked well.

Then I took inventory. What I found amazed me! I still had enough meat to make 30 meals for Pastor Dad, The Bear, and me. If I hadn't sped things up a bit the Great Freezer Cleanout would not have been completed for another whole month!

It sure doesn't look like there's any food in this freezer!

Okay, maybe just a little bit of food is in there!

Why, yes!  There really is food in there.  And the contents really is enough to feed this family of three adults for a whole month!

I learned a lot from this. First, as mentioned, we are abundantly blessed!

Second, I can see that meat is really not one of the things that I need to be concerned about buying except when it comes to having enough of something to feed the gang on Sunday. Maybe I should think about replenishing the dismal supply of frozen fruits and vegetables instead.   :)  Just a thought.

Third, it is time to get busy cleaning my pantry shelves. Then I'll have an ideas of the recipes that can be made from combining the pantry items with those in the freezer.

Fourth, my grocery receipts from the last 3 weeks total $98.46! That's the combined total for three weeks not the total for any one week. These expenditures included basics like paper supplies, staples, supplemental items for three different Sunday meals, and some junk food for The Bear (who kept asking, "Really, Mom, when are you going to the store again?!!!!")

Overall, I'm pretty happy with all of this. Cleaning the freezers helped put our home economy into proper perspective. ^o-o^

Now, on to tackle the pantry shelves!