The Great Freezer Cleanout Continues

Guilty! I confess that I took the picture of the geese at the neighborhood Frisch's Big Boy during the week when we were cleanning out the freezers, pantries, and cupboards.

But not guilty for eating dinner there. We just dropped by for coffee and dessert. (I had the coconut cream pie. Yummy!)

As for food, well, we're still cleaning out the freezer. As my blogging buddy, Karin, pointed out occasionally the thing needs to be emptied and restocked. Something that was originally bought as a bargain might end up being totally wasted otherwise. Not. Good.

And as Karin also pointed out, the occasional mishap will happen. The last time our freezer was emptied was when we were hit by Hurricane Ike back in 2008. Grills all over the area were fired up to cook the contents of electricity-starved freezers: The Great American Barbecue as hosted by Hurricane Ike!

I was a bit remiss in my efforts to keep you posted, but I had good reason for it. There was a convention in town and a funeral out of town that we attended. I'm working my brain to remember what I cooked last week. Oh, wait! It's coming back to me.

• Wednesdays are always busy days.  I boiled eggs for our lunch and The Bear and I had ours as egg salad sandwiches.  Pastor Dad just ate his with a pinch of salt.  Some of us ate fruit.
• For supper that evening I used my food processor to grind a package of dried out hamburger buns into crumbs.  I then coated flounder fillets from the freezer with some of the crumbs that were mixed with Italian seasoning spices. Olive oil was drizzled in the pan and over the tops of the fillets before baking to make a crispier crust.
• Thursday's lunch consisted of hotdogs from the freezer and some buns that were NOT dried out or freezer burnt.
• Dinner that night consisted of a whole chicken (previously cut into halves before freezing) being roasted in the oven.  Canned vegetables were served as a side dish.
• There was enough of the chicken left to make sandwiches for Friday's lunch. 

After lunch our family went downtown to the homeschool convention.  We didn't get to go as early as we would have liked or stay as late as we intended because we were either home packing for our travels or traveling itself.  Pastor Dad had a funeral to preach in Tennessee.  We left after Tim Hawkins' show (and were mighty thankful that we had tickets for the early one!) to drive south, reaching our destination around midnight our time.  We returned home the next day and made preparations for Sunday dinner, which DID happen as scheduled (much to everyone's surprise, including mine!).  I'll tell about that meal in a separate post.

In conclusion to last week's great freezer cleanout let me state that due to unforeseen circumstances (a funeral) and the fact that we barely made a dent in the contents of the downstairs freezer, I will continue the Great Freezer Cleanout this week also in a somewhat modified manner. (Meaning that there are a few things that I absolutely must, muST, MUST buy at the store this week!)