Keeping your food from freezer burn. Found this article on www.thescramble.com
1. Before you go grocery shopping, pull everything out of your refrigerator and see what can be incorporated into this week’s meals or just needs to be tossed. (I recommend making a weekly menu plan, so little if any food goes to waste. (My website, www.theScramble.com can help you with that).
2. Evaluate the items in your freezer that you haven’t used, or don’t consider tempting. Taking a realistic view of what you and your family will actually eat as leftovers will keep your freezer from filling up with items you will likely never enjoy (kind of like your closets!) In other words, you can throw away that piece of cake that’s years past its prime or that half casserole that nobody liked the first time around.
3. If you have frozen meats or casseroles that you aren’t saving for a specific reason, incorporate them into this month’s meals before they become too old. Use them as a nightly meal for the week paired with a fresh salad, or enhance one of the week’s lighter meals with your frozen finds.
4. If you have bags of frozen berries (unless they’re already long opened and need to be tossed), make a smoothie by blending the frozen fruit with orange juice and fresh fruit or yogurt.
5. Use packages of prepared appetizers as side dishes for your dinners.
I always feel better when can avoid buying something I already have or wasting something I purchased or made months ago. I love to save money and space by using up all the food I buy, but almost as important, I relish having a sense of control over at least one aspect of my busy life.
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