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gil
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 1:13 pm Post subject:

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:

Freezer - oh blimey an inventory of that?

Sorry - no, I didn't mean folk to provide an inventory of the contents of their chest or big freezer.

I was thinking more about the old kind of fridge-freezer where the freezer section is a bit smaller than the fridge (like mine), but has a separate door. Or a fridge with a freezer compartment.

On the other hand, if you've got a fridge-freezer with a full freezer-section, but a fridge-section with not much in, or stuff that doesn't really need to be there, perhaps you'd be better off with just a chest freezer and no fridge. That's the way I'm heading....

Mrs Fiddlesticks

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 1:27 pm Post subject:

gil wrote:

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:

Freezer - oh blimey an inventory of that?

no its just the idea that I should know whats in the freezer.

We've a tall fridge freezer in the kitchen and then another big chest freezer in the garage. There are 4 of us plus I don't like having to go to the supermarket more than once every month/3 weeks. Both are kept as full as possible.

Gai

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 1:33 pm Post subject:

In the shed we've got 2 large chest freezers and an upright fridge/freezer. One of the chests contains pig, pig and yet more pig. The other contains 12 chickens, some offal, lots of homegrown veg & fruit, sundry bread & cakes and various fish. We're trying to consolidate the contents of both into one freezer by June when we have quarter of a cow coming.
The upright freezer is full of portions of ready meals (when I cook curry, stew, casserole etc I always make extra and freeze for those days we're in a hurry or can't be bothered cooking) and soups. The fridge part is full of bottled water, juice cartons and canned drinks which we buy in bulk from the cash & carry. There is also a few jars of goose fat in there.

Will

Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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Location: Grenoside, Sheffield

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 1:46 pm Post subject:
The joys of children pt 94: Opened the fridge at a friend's house the other night to get a beer. Contents of fridge: 8 cans bitter 1 Asda curry bag 64 pints semi-skimmed milk Apparently this is one week's worth.

cab

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 1:55 pm Post subject:

Errm... From memory...

Fridge

Cheese
Milk
Maple syrup
Two open jars of jam (damson and cherry plum) and two open jars of jelly (rosemary apple and whitecurrant), all home made.
Miso paste
Fermented black bean paste
Yellow curry paste
Half a lemon without any zest on it
Lactobacillus powder for making cured sausages
Celery
Kale and cabbage (from the plot)
Leftover wild greens

Freezer
Beef, beef and more beef from our last bulk buy; a large amount of tasty, well seasoned Gloucester bullock
Lamb, from a shoulder that I portioned for freezing last Thursday
Portions of chicken (again, portioned and frozen at home because buying pre-portioned happy chicken is just about impossible, and a waste anyway)
Don't think we have any pork left.
Salmon
Bones and chicken carcasses
Home grown veg (french beans, runner beans, leeks, sweetcorn)
Redcurrants, raspberries, blackberries, whitecurrants, gooseberries, rhubarb, apple... assortedly frozen whole or stewed
Chicken of the woods fungus (loads)
Assorted flavours of home made ice cream and a little bit of ben and jerrys (yes, I know...)
Butternut squash ravioli filling (great way of using up butternut squash when its getting to the end of winter and they won't stoe much longer)
Mushroom duxelle from various wild species
Some coltsfoot flowers
Frozen coriander and basil, leftovers from last year. Think I've got frozen curry leaves too.

We COULD live without either. Don't want to, though.

gil
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 1:58 pm Post subject:

Will wrote:

The joys of children pt 94: Opened the fridge at a friend's house the other night to get a beer. Contents of fridge:

8 cans bitter
1 Asda curry bag
64 pints semi-skimmed milk

Apparently this is one week's worth.

Have they got calves instead of kids ?
How the **** does anyone use 64 pints of milk in a week ?

Lozzie

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 2:11 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

Juices, not all open but being stored there cos I thought it was more efficient to have it full.

No!

Your fridge is better off being kept only two thirds full, because otherwise you are expending energy needlessly in order to keep a greater number of things chilled.

The opposite is true with the freezer - even if it only has a few gaps in it, you should try and fill these with empty boxes so as to avoid using energy to 'freeze' the pockets of air.

tahir

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 2:16 pm Post subject:

gil wrote:

How the **** does anyone use 64 pints of milk in a week ?

Amazing

Lozzie

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 2:21 pm Post subject:
I thought Will meant that he had 6 x 4-pint bottles of milk, but gosh - that's still quite a lot!

Bugs

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 2:32 pm Post subject:

Lozzie wrote:

Bugs wrote:

Juices, not all open but being stored there cos I thought it was more efficient to have it full.

Oo er. Thank missus. It's still not full anyway - actually 2/3 is probably not far off it. But is 2/3 full better than nearly empty (but still on?)

Will

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Location: Grenoside, Sheffield

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 2:35 pm Post subject:
A three year old and an eighteen month year old who both get through at least a pint each a day, plus a father with a hot chocolate addiction, plus a mother who makes some of the best cauliflower cheese and rice pudding in Yorkshire. I don't know how they get through it all, but there were only four pints left about a week later....

ken69

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Location: Norfolk

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 3:47 pm Post subject:

I have (now for sale) a 50/50 fridge freezer bought from Comet last year which included a energy grant of some sort. £150.
1 litre cartons of semi skinned (semi-skilled

)Long Life milk is 35p from Lidl. Complete with little clip, and can always boil it to prevent it going orf.
Good for you Gil....our grandparents must have had little tricks to keep stuff from spoiling, probably the same as the supermarkets use, loadsa salt and sugar.
On second thoughts freezing sounds more healthy.

monsieurpoule

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 3:52 pm Post subject:
I know we're using up electric to power our freezer but it helps us save other energy cooking as we make up big batches of food (i.e. chilli con carne) and then freeze the excess. Recooking this when thawed I reckon takes a lot less energy than the original cooking did.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 3:53 pm Post subject:
Think our fridge freezer may be up for sale too - we just don't need a fridge, and will just get a chest freezer. When I was young, we used to have a cupboard at the top of the cellar stairs, with a mesh front, where we put milk and butter. We don't have a cellar, but I'm sure we can find somewhere.

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 06 3:55 pm Post subject:
We're looking at getting a big freezer because we should be bulk buying meat in the not too distant future. Not much good eh?

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