Last week I was lamenting on how we really should move everything into the house freezer, because we were wasting so much energy keeping a freezer out there that was over 3/4 empty. This week we are filling it with beets, cloud berries, blackberries and just today 27lbs of blueberries.... We ate the second to last bag of blueberries yesterday. We have one more quart before we are out for good... and we just bought more. In season, fresh and ready for freezing.
We have 3 more jars of peaches, and 5 more jars of applesauce. And that is only because Alex has been gone for 3 weeks or we would have less of both. lol!
I LOVE this type of efficiency.
I am helping my dad clear out his house. My mom and he are getting divorced (this is my step dad, not the biodad I had so much drama with a couple years back) and I have been helping him clear shelves, get rid of things etc. I found, in their pantry shelves, food from (get this) 1998!!! Yeah... 10 year old home canned goods. I found marshmallow fluff that was older than that. Stuff that had moved with them when they moved into the house
20 years ago... stuff that if you ate it, there isn't a deffinate, but a possiblity, of death! Scary!
It has firmed my reslove to keep my pantry and freezer this efficient. To keep my space free of things that are more than two years old and to not be afriad to throw away things that "expire" in my mind, even if they may be good food. I am totally ok with tossing a can of food that is old.
Anyhow.. just being happy with efficiency.
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