The new chest freezer was just delivered. Time to set my "one day I will be organized and will use the chest freezer to store ingredients for cooking delicious home-cooked meals bought at deep discounts" fantasy. Yeah, That's it, seriously.
The second part of that fantasy was using the fridge/freezer in my kitchen to store premade, ready to heat up frozen meals, hence reducing our dependence on restaurant meals and take out. I am probably living a pipe dream, but it can't hurt to try.
freezer fantasy plans
February 24th, 2012 at 06:06 pm
February 24th, 2012 at 06:41 pm 1330108913
February 24th, 2012 at 07:41 pm 1330112487
Good luck! If you can get husband involved somewhat (and, when they're old enough, the kids) it can help immensely. My family has gotten pretty good about making a menu and shopping list together on Friday nights and doing an organized shopping spree Saturday.
If you're going to try for deep discounts, you may need to do it the other way somewhat; see what you buy, what you have, and what you need to use up and make the menu based on that. Sometimes if we're trying to save money on a weekly shop, we'll do an inventory and try to make meals that only require a few more ingredients to make.
February 25th, 2012 at 02:45 pm 1330181128
The ideas posted above about keeping track are great ideas and very worthy of the time it takes.