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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

I kept reading even after I realized I am not the target audience.

A friend gave me his old deepfreeze and I LOVE knowing I’ve got all that stuff. I buy on sale and definitely use it well.

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

I’m so impressed. I want to be that together!!

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Chris Turner-Neal's avatar

I do occasionally explicitly want to make something from the freezer, but it is to Perform Thrift for myself.

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Kathryn's avatar

The life advice made me hoot!

We fall into the trap of saving Parmesan rinds for…I actually don’t know why we save Parmesan rinds. But we have *plenty*.

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

The Parmesan rinds thing does work for me, and I think it's because I value Parmesan rinds more than I value onion peels. I see the rinds and I think, "Oh, that will make a terrific broth and it will require very little additional work," and I also remember that that wedge of Parmesan cost fourteen dollars or something, so it registers in a way veggie peels never do.

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Shabby Tigers's avatar

soup. it’s great! have i personally done it? no

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Julia's avatar

We've got some of our wedding cake in there. Apparently you're supposed to eat it on your one year anniversary, but we didn't know that and now it's Year 9 and we should definitely just throw it out. But it feels wrong to throw out one's wedding cake! Like we'll have to declare 'obviously we still love each other and this is not symbolic of anything' as we dump it into the compost bin alongside the egg shells and chicken carcasses. And since we live in Toronto, there's a good chance raccoons will break into our bin and eat it...

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

I will bravely eat your nine year old freezer cake

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Julia's avatar

Sliding in just before the racoons...very brave indeed!

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VirginiaKath's avatar

I have come around to Daniel's point of view after recently losing an entire freezer full of food due to a power outage - the majority of that stuff was in there producing guilt anyway, just because I thought, ooh, let's stock up on hamburger!, or maybe those frozen taquitios would be an excellent snack (and turned out to be gross), or I was willing to take someone's extra kale off their hands. :(

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Will Sharp's avatar

I have the same relationship to my freezer as you do, and one (1) trick that sometimes (only sometimes) helps. Nothing leaves the freezer directly. Items must pass through the fridge before emerging onto the counter. This gently reintroduces my brain to the idea of freezer food as Maybe Food To Eat, by putting it in the refrigerator next to all the other Maybe Food To Eat. With a little luck, freezer food moved to the fridge can quickly shed the shadow of death and be redeemed to my favor.

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

oh I'm going to use this

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Amy Greenlee's avatar

So many bags of freezer-burned meat!! And an unused can of orange concentrate from ??? Possibly 2015? It really does have to stop!!

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Mike Oppenheim's avatar

99% of my marital spats are related to this :-) Loved it!

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Addison's avatar

But the thing is maybe this time I’ll actually make that stock?

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Lindsay's avatar

I have never felt so seen

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Beverly Button's avatar

My father-in-law's freezer is deadly. He actually has food in it that was old when his wife died in 2015, and it's still in there.

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Elizabeth's avatar

I am very sorry to report that I am the outlier who makes the stock and is thus Ruining It For Everyone.

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