Comments on: Eating out of my freezer. How many days can you last?

By: Best of the Web: Bargainbabe.com - New Parent

Best of the Web: Bargainbabe.com - New Parent — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:36:56 +0000

[...] dream I had about getting new bras hit a nerve. So did a post about seeing how many days I could eat out of my freezer and pantry. One woman wrote in that she had 44 days worth of meat in her [...]

By: CityMommy Interviews Bargain Babe - CityMommy

CityMommy Interviews Bargain Babe - CityMommy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:54:31 +0000

By: Bargain Babe» Food is discretionary, not a necessity

Bargain Babe» Food is discretionary, not a necessity — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:10:10 +0000

[...] So instead of including food as a necessity in my budget and allotting a set amount of dollars for it, I am including food as a discretionary item. This way we will carefully consider each food purchase. Is this something we could get cheaper elsewhere? Is this something we could make ourselves? Is this something that will go to waste? At the end of the month I’m guessing we may well be eating out of the freezer. [...]

By: bargainbabe

bargainbabe — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:43:11 +0000

Wow, Renee. You are so organized! And you must have a very large freezer. It sounds like you have replicated the meal preparation business that are popping up, but for a lower cost. I like the idea for a family calender of meals – it reminds me of the pink sheet I received from my elementary school cafeteria.

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:27:11 +0000

Julia, I shop once a month for meal preparation items, make 12 to 15 meals on a Saturday and put those meals (with directions on how to cook them) in the freezer. I write out our meals on the calendar and each family member makes a meal once a week, and cleans once or twice a week. I make sure that the meal is taken out to defrost and it avoids the “what’s for dinner?” questions I used to get. I did try meal preparation places but I can make the meals myself and spend half of the money they charge. So I probably have at least 30 days worth of meals in my freezer.

By: bargainbabe

bargainbabe — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:02:32 +0000

Your husband is hilarious – food museum! I love it!!! ~Julia

By: bargainbabe

bargainbabe — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:00:48 +0000

I agree. It would be difficult, though possible, to eat out of my freezer for some time. But the meals would be greatly improved by fresh vegetables from time to time. ~Julia

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:58:02 +0000

I just did an inventory of my large freezer. We have meat for about 44 meals, fruit, cereal, flour, ice cream, bread, cookies, and pretzels. There are a few servings of veg but we prefer fresh so I shop at Henry’s or Fresh & Easy. F&E has a nice section where items are half off. They are almost at the sell date so they discount them. Very cool. Anyway, we could make it about 7 weeks.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:55:12 +0000

My husband calls our freezer my “food museum” so sadly, I must admit, we could probably survive a LONG time just eating what’s in the house. (And probably lose a lot of weight since there seem to be a ton of Lean Cuisines gathering frost in there!)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:26:38 +0000

Your recipes do sound very creative, props to you there. I think I could do this for 3-4 weeks, but I think in order to do this and I would need to use one fresh vegetable item, nothing to expensive, maybe a pound of napa cabbage or bok choy which I would never get at Ralphs or Vons EVER (unless on special). I always get my produce at Vallarta, or Food 4 Less.. prices are best there most of the time!