Frugal In Florida

So you all picked up (maybe?) that I'm doing a little challenge this month and trying to eat down the freezers and pantry ... aiming to spend $30 a week for fresh stuff ... So of course, to make this much more practical, you'd think I would have done a little inventory of the freezers sooner, right? Nah ... However, on Labor Day, with Hurricane Irma making a beeline for South Florida (WHAT???) I figured that was the time to do it ... so here you go! Obviously an OLD picture as the moonshine  and arrowroot powder have moved out! Oh, and while I was doing inventory, I figured I might as well organize them a little bit too and make room for the bags of ice. I just grabbed a couple of them plastic grocery bags and filled them up with ice from the big ice maker we have ... they freeze really hard as the ice cubes are "wet" when they come out of the ice bin. Will certainly beat having to buy ice if anything starts to go down this weekend coming up! At this t...

Wow, started this on February 1, 2011. That is amazing ... already half way into the 2nd month! It was hard the week Hubby was traveling so we (me and the kids) normally eat real simple, grilled cheese, pasta, etc. (umm, yes, popcorn). Ok, here's what's been removed: frozen pizza handful of raspberries handful of blueberries OJ concentrate 3 pk of steaks (these are tiny, 100 calories each) almost finished the one bag of  precooked chicken 3 lbs of ground beef 2 large roast uncounted amount of cheese (just lots and lots) brocolli more HC fudge bars (almost done with first box finally) And here's what's been added: 4 more frozen pizzas (I think I only have 2 left now) 2 roast (already taken out and eaten) 3 whole chickens (that have been quartered, which I removed the thighs and froze the legs and breast individually) I'm very proud of myself as I didn't buy anything that required the freezers when I went to Costco !

At last! I did it! It helps that I had the 3 turkey breast removed. Made a lot more room and easier to pull shelf by shelf out & put back. Only threw away one thing, that would be the last bag of red sauce I had made back in July ... Hubby didn't like the sausage I used (I used ground pork, that could be it!) So here it is, Freezer #2 (or the Guest Freezer as we call it): Flat Iron steaks (individual 100 calories, 3 per pkg) x 2 Beef tenderloin for stirfry, 1 ziploc Hamburer 80/20 x 1 filet mignon (from a WHOLE filet that was purchased) 2 ziplocs left (with about 6 per pkg) bottom round steaks x 3 brats x 1 (4 in bag) sandwich steaks x 1 chicken tenders (breaded) 5 lb bag chicken thighs b/s x 2 flame roasted chix x 2 pork chops x 1 cheddar cheese x 1 mozz cheese x 5 parm cheese x 3 swiss cheese (shredded) x 1 fresh mozz slice x 1 (large ziploc for pizza) fresh mozz shredd x 1 (large ziploc) provolone slices x 1 sauted onions x 1 (ziploc) clam strips x ...

Its downright chilly here this morning. 54 degrees at 8am ... I've got windows open (not all the way!) and the house is cool so I figured now was the time to tackle this project! The funny thing … as I’m pulling stuff out (one shelf at a time) I see instant dinners in the making so I started to write things down, like for instance, the top shelf has the breaded chicken and 2 bags of mashed taters, so I grouped those together and wrote down on the side of my list, mashed taters & fried chicken, and then roast beef au jus sandwiches (RB lunchmeat & half loaf of Italian bread) and Hot browns (cooked turkey breast (good lord, I’m not sure when I froze these, but they are large chunks off a roasted turkey) and so on… so this WAS good to do that will definately help with the SRS this month! I did throw a few things out, a couple bags of bananas that were brown, a bag with 3 lonely freezer burned strawberries. Apparently the kids have been tapping into the freezer for foo...