We – and by we I of course mean me – have a longstanding bad habit of buying more meat than we need, freezing it then forgetting about it until the freezer door won’t close properly. Multiply that by 3 freezers and an audit was well overdue.
It took several hours and mild frostbite.to both hands emptying the contents of each freezer onto a trestle table, chiselling away the ice buildup, identifying anything scorched or dating back more than 2 years and putting the new stuff back.
By the end we had a table full of meat with a purchase value of several hundred dollars, none of which I could even cook up for the dog or put out for recycling.
I’ve had to split the packs into bundles, double bag them and keep them frozen until I can put them out on bin collection day to go to landfill.
Pretty shameful state of affairs and a lesson I will learn for the future – only buy what I’m going to use that week and not be tempted by specials.
One upside is recovering most of our missing tupperware.
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