For ten years I fed my young family out of the 120 litre freezer and Darren's old fridge that had a small freezer compartment inside. Space back then was at a premium and boy, did I stack those freezers well. Not one box of convenience food could fit in those freezers ( not that we could afford it back then ). Bread, rolls and icecubes went into the little freezer compartment in the fridge and mince, chicken and a few meals went into the 120 litre freezer.
When we outgrew Darren's old fridge we upgraded to the 660 litre side by side. About 2 1/2 years ago we were given another freezer but unfortunately it only lasted two years. So a few months ago I bought the 180 litre freezer.
As you know we have a vegetable garden and fruit trees. The freezers come in handy for storing excess garden produce. This saves us money as quite often we can eat our produce from the freezer when it's out of season and costs a fortune at the supermarket.
Here's a list of what we store in our freezers - LEGEND -
MEAT
HM = homemade
Mince divided into 300 gram sizes
Lamb chops 4 per package C = convenience
Chicken fillets individually wrapped
Fish G = from our garden
Legs of Lamb bought in Spring on sale
Sausages 6 per package
Diced beef in 400gram snap lock bags
Roast beef cut in half to serve 4 people
Silverside cut in half to serve 4 people
Salmon patties 10 per package HM
Fish fingers C
Sliced ham
Hamburger patties HM
Whole chickens
Chicken drumsticks 4 per package
SOUPS
Chicken stock HM
Vegetable soup HM
Pumpkin soup HM
Chunky chicken and veg soup HM
Chunky beef and veg soup HM
Potato and leek soup HM
MEALS
Spag bol sauce HM
Lasagne portions HM
Leftovers of casseroles in single serves HM
Pie meat - ready to make a pie HM
Meatloaves HM
BAKING
Raspberry and white choc muffins HM
Blueberry and white choc muffins HM
Chocolate choc chip muffins HM
Wholemeal bread with extra goodness HM
Pita bread C
Rolls HM
Pumpkin scones HM
Plain scones HM
Chocolate brownies HM
Cakes for church morning teas HM
Biscuit dough - assorted varieties HM
Saved bread crusts to be made into dried bread crumbs HM
Raisin bread C or HM
Pizza dough HM
Hot cross buns HM
VEGETABLES
Corn cobs G
Beans G
Corn kernels
Celery
Capsicum
Broccoli stalks diced G
Broccoli G
Cauliflower G
Cooked and pureed pumpkin
Cooked tomatoes G
Zucchini G
FRUIT
Lemon juice in ice cubes G
Raspberries G
Strawberries G
Cooked apple
Oranges - blitzed
Blueberries
Bananas
Fruit icecream HM
OTHER
English muffins C
Crumpets C
Sweetened condensed milk in 1/2 and whole can portions HM
Tomato paste in ice cube size
Mini quiches / flans HM
Sausage rolls HM
Rice - cooked leftovers
Icecream C
Yoghurt - to be used as a starter HM
Butter
Vegetable stock ( given to me ) HM
Icypoles C or HM
Pastry C
Zucchini slice HM
I think that the entire contents of our freezers. Of course we don't have everything stocked at the same time, but we do try to keep as much a possible.
In a few weeks I'll talk about the best way to store food in the freezer
This is the freezer part of my side by side fridge. That's pita bread on the top shelf bought at a market. Baking is on the next shelf with the lemon ice cubes and sweetened condensed milk. Crumpets are on the third shelf with cooked rice stored in the white container. Veggies are on the next shelf. .
Then there is the bread shelf and below that are two slide out drawers with frozen fruit and biscuit dough
The 120 litre 23 year old freezer and our new 180 litre freezer. They hold the meat, soups, garden produce and freezer meals
Our 660 litre side by side fridge / freezer
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