Watch me clean out my kitchen freezer!

I’ve lived in this house for a little over a year now, and in that time, my kitchen freezer has collected some odds and ends that really need to be used up.

Since my kitchen freezer is self-defrosting, things in there are prone to freezer burn. So, I gotta use this stuff up!

I could take the easy route and just dump it all into my chest freezer, but that would really just be me pressing pause.

And I’m gonna be MORE likely to forget about these odds and ends if they hit my chest freezer.

Out of sight = out of mind!

To keep me accountable about using up my food, I’m going to share with you what all is in there, and then next week I will report back about my progress in using it all up.

So, this post will be filled with a bunch of unappetizing-looking frozen food pictures.

And hopefully next week’s post will be filled with delicious-looking meals that I made with my freezer contents. 

First up, a few meat products!

I’ve got:

• part of a package of bacon
• a pound of Italian sausage from ButcherBox
• some hamburger (maybe enough for two burgers?)
• a few chicken tenderloins

Next, some Parmesan and mozzarella.

These are two partial jars of tomato sauce, and a partial can of OJ concentrate.

It just occurred to me that I could use the ground beef + the tomato sauce and use it to top some pasta. 

These are some frozen stuffed pasta shells from who-knows-when.

This is the recipe I use for stuffed pasta shells, and it does work pretty nicely to freeze them before baking.

But, pro-tip: you should remember to thaw and bake the ones you freeze. 😉

Next, a very partial bag of frozen corn.

A few frozen peaches from last summer. I think these made it up to my kitchen freezer from my chest freezer when I made a recent smoothie.

I could just use these up by…making another smoothie. Or I could throw them into a bowl of one-serving microwave oatmeal.

This bag has quite a few corn tortillas in it. I’m guessing they will be pretty dry when I thaw them, so I don’t really think they would be awesome for tacos.

However, they could still be good in enchiladas, or I could slice them up and pan-fry them to make crispy strips to go on top of taco salad.

I could also use some of them to make some quesadillas; I make some that have a corn/cheese/green onion/cilantro filling, and that could use up my little bit of frozen corn too! 

Alrighty! That’s the end of my current freezer tour. The only other stuff in there are things like ice cubes.

And my container of yeast.

But ice cubes and yeast do not require a freezer challenge. 

Also: there’s some ice cream in there. But chocolate ice cream also does not require a challenge. 😉

Tune in next Wednesday for an update on all of this!