Household Hints & Help

You will be looking at a HUGE basket of stuff. What you cook up and freeze will be hard to find later--trust me on this--unless you develop a marking system so you can see something at a glance.

I put the same stuff in a plastic grocery bag, so I can bend down and grab the handles and pull up everything.
If you can find colored tape, you can make a code of one color for meat, one for veggies, one for left-overs or made up ahead etc. tied around teh handles.
I have enough room in our freezer to put bags into open top boxes, so like items stay together. ( thank you Amazon for the boxes).

And DATE what you put in, cause you won't be able to tell if something is really dried out until you thaw it, and often that is too late.

I use large yogurt containers to put servings of soup, fried rice, etc, one container holds enough for 1.5 servings in our house.
And I have plastic containers saved from take out, they hold one meal serving, all I have to do is micro-wave.

If you lose power, stuff stays frozen for about 3 days, esp. if you have frozen water jugs in the freezer. Don't lift the lid unless you have to before the power comes on.
Lastly, any food that does thaw needs to be eaten, if good, or tossed, if questionable.

Crock pot and large freezer are life savers.....have fun!