Use Your Freezer to Create More Time and Money from Alisan Smith's blog

A supermarket freezercan be really useful. It allows you to store more goods in the home and shop less. It's not that I don't enjoy shopping. It is just that I would rather spend my time shopping for shoes or dresses than for groceries.

I regularly freeze milk & bread. It saves running to the convenience store to purchase more when you run out or buying take away or a bought work or school lunch.

If you make some planning before you freeze, your preparation can be also quicker. Freezing meat directly on the plastic trays that they come from the multi deck open chiller is not efficient & if you buy larger lots, then breaking it down into freezer bags or freezer containers will make the food freeze quicker and it will make defrosting and using the food easier too.

With bacon or ham, I don't know how much I might need and so I simply roll each piece and then store it in the freezer. This allows me to take out only as many pieces as I need and I don't need to try to cut the whole frozen wad to try to avoid defrosting more than I need.

We have always had a chest type freezer. I get around having to go searching in the bottom by putting like foods together in baskets or even just cardboard boxes. Although this does take some extra space in the freezer, it helps with organisation and makes sure that all of the items are easier to find. The ultimate would be an upright freezer with baskets.

Also, any fresh meat display freezer that you can readily buy frozen is also a great candidate for freezing yourself. For example, when corn is in season, it becomes very cheap and very ripe. I simple prepare it by stripping off the outer leaves and the inner strings, rinse and then freeze. Cauliflower and broccoli are also the same. When these vegetables are in season, they are beautifully ripe and very cheap, so stock up and freeze. I prepare the cauliflower and broccoli ready to eat by washing and separating the flowerets before putting into portions sizes in the freezer.

I love to live life to the full. I have discovered that efficiency is the key. I also discovered a portable, convenience store refrigerator contained business model.