Ever since I got into the Real Food movement, my freezers (yes, plural- I have the regular top-of-the-fridge freezer and a chest freezer, albeit a small one) have been packed to the gills. After all, if you’re not buying boxed pastas and boxed rices, and making sandwiches, you’re basically left with mainly fresh food. And if you only grocery shop once a week, a lot of your meat and vegetable sources aren’t going to last the whole week. Plus, it’s cheaper buying in bulk, especially if you can hack up your own chicken and slice your own breakfast steaks.

We Wants It, Precious

The problem with this, is that non-upright freezers are insanely hard to organize, and that seems to make them fill up all the more. I’ve resorted to keeping a chart of what’s in which freezer and in what section, but quite frankly… that’s not doing much for me. I actually had to put off getting our free turkey this year because I had to make room in the freezer- the chest freezer.

For now, I’ve invested in a handful of stackable plastic crates (which I pray are small enough to actually fit where I want them!), but what with freezing my own cookie dough, jars and jars of home made stock and conserved chicken fat- I’m not too optimistic.

Anyone have $1000 to donate to my cause?