Cleaned out both freezers.

bmack95hd

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Should be ashamed of ourselves. Found some stuff way in the back that might need to be carbon dated. It?s hitting th dumpster. 2 porterhouse steaks almost made me cry. Gonna set the one up in the house with current edible items, no more buying extra because it is on sale. Garage freezer will have The Wife?s frozen fruit that she is going to can, she has till the weekend to sort it out. Afraid to cook up and feed any to the dogs, might create an unwanted mess in the house or garage. This is what I do that I am retired.
 
My wife buys a bunch of any thing on sale, puts it in the freezer and throws it out in a year,I don't get it and can't break her of do in it.
 
I'd feed it to the dogs. Ya not all at once but think about it a wild dog or one left out side 24/7 eats who knows what including old dead deer etc. All a dog is, is a tame coyote/wolf that has been bred and rebred to get an animal that is better suited for people to get along with
 
Good point, the chicken and pork I think I?ll dump, the 2 porterhouse, beef stew meat and beef fajita strips could delight the two girls.
 
What?s that formula again?? Wife came home from Kohl?s told me what she saved but never mentioned what she spent! I hear ya.
 
I deer hunt and every year I will dress out the deer and then I leave to bones etc. so the barn cats and the dogs can have at it. On a good year I can have 3 or more laying around so it can take a longtime for them to eat it all. Never had a problem yet doing that and have been ding it for decades
 
Hmm,

My daughter came running to me and said Dad look at this advertisement. Just look at what we can save! I said we can't afford to save that much. You should have seen her face. Turned around and walked away without saying another word.
 
Ya any thing on sale is only good if you have a want or need for it at the time of the sale. One can save a lot of $$ but if it is going to go to waste it is not a sale it is a waste of $$
 
I just recently did the same thing. Put it all in the electric roaster cooked it all up. Ran it thru the food processor and used a cat food can as a form and froze meat pucks for the cats and dog. Like Old I used to give the dog deer bones after I had cut all the meat from them. I don't give bones to the dogs anymore. I had a bird dog who would break the bones to get the marrow out. She Splintered a bone, punctured a blood vessel and bleed to death. It takes planning to get meat out of the freezer for a meal. Sometimes we're just in too much of a rush to plan ahead. gobble
 
That is why when the super market chain Shop-Rite has their CAN - CAN Sale in January you need to control youself. Over a one month period they havd quite a few canned goods on very special prices. The Progresso soups are normally 2.85 and on the sale they are only 88 cents. I bought a years worth. Almost 100 cans. Worth it. If the produce you are looking at has any sort of limited life span or can spoil then maybe buy ONE extra. I hate it when stuff needs to get thrown out a year later. I really hate when I have to throw out stuff I have canned. The Ball blue book even says that stuff at one year needs to be tossed. Color, flavor, and consistency starts to go down. Just what I follow.
 
Clean our freezers out each year after we butcher and have to "re-stock." We bring the older items to the top and force ourselves to go through it all before tapping into the new. Seems to work pretty well for us. We don't have nearly as much go bad in a chest type, versus those who have upright freezers. Once in a while a frozen bag of veggies gets a bit freezer burnt, but for the most part, it keeps rather well in ours. Probably jinxed ourselves now. My wife does some "farmer's market" items and other baked goods and needs some freezer space for this stuff for short periods of time. We ran out of room last summer, so I bought an additional deep freeze. We have 3 chest type freezers, which is overkill in my opinion, but we should be able to empty one soon and shut one of the three down for a while. Its like we are prepared for end of the world.........................as long as we have electricity!
 
We pulled a small turkey I raised from 2009 out of our freezer a few weeks ago and it was OK.Had one from 2014 that was OK. Stuff will keep a long time if properly prepared and packaged.
 
Throw it into a crock pot, and make stew or soup from it. I see posts below about throwing goods that people canned a year ago. That is BS. We have stuff that dates back to 2014 that we are still eating with no repercussions, or health issues.
Loren
 

I would think that if you cooked it long enough... your pretty much ok.... would not eat rare....... maybe a cooking thermometer is in your future...
 
For a lot of people, a freezer is a place to store stuff until you throw it out.
A friend once called a dishwasher, a dirty dish cupboard.
Both are true..

Dick
 
We have 3 freezers slap full and just 2 of us home now. Plus a couple hundred jars full of canned stuff. We need to go thru and see what we have and probably have to throw some out. A lot of hard work and waste of good food and money to do it. I don't think I will plant as much garden this year and try to put up less than we usually do. 71 years old and I am afraid if I plant just a small one I may not want to plant next year. We try to have enough for us and some for the kids and we like to share with friends and neighbors when we have it. We don't buy much meat right now until we find all that we have frozen. Good,luck. Tommy
 
We've gotten into the habit of vacuum-sealing ALL of our meats as well as some other goods, even if we expect to be using them very soon. Is just a bit of added security, and a LOT more longevity in the freezer!
 
People pay a premium for aged beef.. And here you are throwing it out... :shock:

We have two freezers. One for farm growen goods and the other for wild game and fish.

We do not have to worry to much about the one with wild game and fish. We more of it than we go farm critters.
 
Funny, mine quit just this past weekend. Glad it caught me with it on the low side. What thawed that it didn't matter to refreeze, I put in other appliances around the place and what wouldn't I just stored in the ref.

Online ordered a new one from Lowes (since their delivery folks are employees) and ordered late Saturday evening and it was delivered Sunday; free shipping. Monday I cooked up the meats, let them cool and into the new freezer they went. Done deal. Really didn't expect that to happen so smoothly. Knew one day it would die as it was fairly old, and expected the worst. Didn't happen.
 
Now I feel better knowing I'am not the only one with a wife like that. If you find a way of breakingher of doing that let us know because I haven't got that figured out yet.
 
For a long time we had an extra fridge out in garage, but it just turned a into dumping place for leftovers that never got eaten. I found a old beer UNDER it one day. Must have been 10 years old. Was still good.
 
Used to Work for slowe's took a new freezer to a couple pulled up and saw a dog run across the lawn with a nice looking steak about an inch and a half thick. Told the lady while I was bringing in the freezer she said it had a little freezer burn. I told her if she had anymore like that she could throw them my way. LOL
 
You forgot the other one my wife also does. The clothes dryer is a place to store your clothes.
 
I had a good friend who was a small animal vet in Orlando, He was a southern good ole boy who ran bird dogs, shot quiail and fished for bass, He came up here to SD to hunt deer and pheasant and ducks.
He invited me to his house for drinks quite often. The place was a palace on about 300 foot lake front in middle of town. Winterhaven. Half million dollar lot!. He called it the "Boneyard".
And then he told me how he got it. His mentor when he opened his clinic told him to sock away all the money he made for surgeries to remove bones from animals. Put it into a 401 or other separate investment and label it "Home Fund" He said he did that. After 10 years he had performed 5 surgeries a week, at 700 a pop. 3500x50x10. Paid cash for the multi million dollar house. Then he asked me , Do you feed your dogs bones? Ans: Not any more!
 
Wife and i do the same thing. Any old meat is unwrapped and dumped out on land far from home for the wildlife to eat. Any old vegetables are dumped in the field without containers. Everything else goes into the dumpster.
 
"Health issues." C'mon really?

You're not going to get sick from eating a however-many-year-old steak that's been frozen in sub-zero temperatures for all that time.

Most of the bad stuff is long dead, and anything that might lie dormant will die at the hands of the grill/broiler/skillet/crockpot. You're not eating it raw.

It might taste like an old shoe, but you won't get sick. For darn sure your dog won't get sick.
 

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