Does everyone else have ENORMOUS freezers?

Yep. My DD teases me that I am prepared for a nuclear winter. I used to have a big chest freezer in the garage but it gave up the ghost after nearly 40 years faithful service and the man at John Lewis refused to sell me a replacement if it was to go in the garage. Something about ambient temperatures and energy saving, apparently I could only situate it in a space that would not get colder than the freezer.
Tosh! When is it ever -20 C in the UK.
However it made sense to buy a large upright freezer instead which matches my large larder fridge and both live side by side in the utility room , giving the capacity of a big American style fridge freezer but I think cheaper.
The freezer is permanently full as I feel the need to have “emergency” supplies in the event of unexpected visits from the family - not that they happen as often as I would like. But also because I cannot resist a food bargain - 3 for £10 on mince or chicken for instance. I always have a sliced loaf, one drawer full of tubs of dog food, a bag of peas, chopped onions, soffrito, frozen puff pastry, frozen herbs, grated cheese and some sausages as staples too.

I’m always prepared for a nuclear winter too. 🙄. Can’t help myself.

I have a freestanding fridge in my kitchen and had a fifty fifty fridge freezer and an old free standing freezer in my garage. The very old freezer has now been emptied and switched off. It was costly to run and it encouraged me to freeze too many things I never got round to eating. The remaining freezer is full to capacity and I now don’t buy or make what I don’t have freezer space for. What will happen when Christmas comes around is another matter!

We have three under-counter drawer jobs - I would prefer fewer but with DH it’s non-negotiable. One lives in the kitchen, the others in the garage as the utility room is south-facing.
I batch cook cottage pies and the like (a drawer), bread (a drawer), carrot and swede, cauliflower cheese, mashed potato (a drawer) and soups (fit in gaps). Elsewhere him indoors organises drawers for fish and seafood, frozen veg, meat x 2, potato products and desserts. I sneak in small pots of chopped herbs and chillis plus citrus juices.

We have an American-style fridge freezer in the kitchen and an upright freezer in the adjacent scullery. Both usually pretty full. Don't like chest freezers - not so easy to access contents.

Mine is very small, I have an under-counter fridge freezer, the freezer is the size an icebox would be if it were just a fridge.

I have chips, ice cream, cod and salmon in it, in winter it also has half a loaf and a pint of milk in case I can’t get out.

I live alone and prefer to eat fresh food.

As long as we don't end up like this.....

I have a 70/30 fridge freezer in the kitchen, an upright freezer in the utility room, and now a large upright from mil’s house in the outside garage. With a large garden I keep them all pretty full. Plus I buy in organic/free range meat from the farm and I have frozen food for the football clubhouse which I transfer over. Then I have some Cooks ready meals and just lately frozen food for the dog. Still a little space in the garage freezer.

I have 50/50 and a house of 7 at the moment with no issue. It is a small one too

Franbern I am quite fasinated as to how much freezer space posters on here actually have. Every time there are requests for more information on'kitchen gadgets'( air fryers, soup makers, etc. etc.), reply after reply comes back about getting a big one and to freeze so many portions

We've an 'enormous fridge' and an 'enormous upright freezer', both in the kitchen. The fridge is obviously for weekly fresh food and some staples that survive better in a cooler place.

The freezer is for our garden produce, some frozen leftover bits, a few extras I make whilst preparing meals, GC ice cream, foods to cook when our children are round (meat/fish/cheese).

No kitchen appliances purposefully making extra portions. We prefer to cook daily, scratch cooking with fresh produce is best for us.

I am interested to read about other people's freezer space so thought you would like to know mine.
We have a large fridge freezer in the kitchen, a large fridge free,er and a large free standing freezer in our cool room and a small stand up fridge freezer in the dining room. All full at all times. We seem to be much the same as everyone else.
We too are like you Germanshepherdmum. We are always prepared for a nuclear winter plus all the other seasons too!!

We have a 50/50 fridge freezer and it works well for the 2 of us.

My parents had a 45 freezer/75 fridge and they managed with a family of 5! The freezer didn't have a drawer. Just a shelf but it worked somehow, and mum organised it so nicely that she could gets lots in and never forgot what she had in it.

I am like Franbern. Fridge freezer and small chest one. There is only me so that's very adequate

I have a separate fridge and freezer but as they are integrated they are not really huge.
When I see an offer in the supermarket for something I use regularly I tend to buy extra to freeze, and like others I do freeze some home cooked food.
However I find that my freezer is always almost full. Every now and again we have to have a couple of "freezer weeks" when I only buy the bare essentials and live on our frozen stock.
I wish I could discipline myself to resist more of the special offers so that I could freeze more home cooked meals. It's so nice to be able to have an evening off when I've defrosted our supper!

Pittcity

As long as we don't end up like this.....

I love this! Just the sort of thing my mother would have done, though her freezer was mainly full of little parcels of left over food, not always labelled.
When she died I took them home in a freezer box and we ate a couple of lucky dip snacks every day - we never knew whether they would be a slice of cake or a little slab of lasagne!
Her larder (in 2010) contained some items which were priced in old pence.

Germanshepherdsmum

I’m always prepared for a nuclear winter too. 🙄. Can’t help myself.

Me too!
I moved house a couple of years ago and really miss my big freezer and especially my larder which was packed with store cupboard food. It was a nightmare finding somewhere to put everything when we moved, though obviously it has now been eaten.
Now I just have a tall double kitchen cabinet as my larder and it is full to bursting. Clearly I really don't need to have it but it's a hard habit to break, developed because I had a full time job, four children and often several lodgers. I doubt that many of today's working mothers would feel the need to cook a "proper" meal from scratch every day!

I’ve a normal 50/50 fridge freezer.
In the kitchen, no back up freezer.

I do run a tight freezer though, in that every month to six weeks I run it right down, then fill it up again almost immediately.

We have a large chest freezer. We always cook enough for several meals, so can have homemade frozen meals any time. At the moment we have a glut of rhubarb, strawberries and courgettes. Fruit goes straight into the freezer, after we enjoy a bowlful, and courgettes have been made into gratin. Now at the stage of making the base of a meal with courgettes and freezing in takeaway containers. Blackberries, apples and plums are nearly ready to be picked (not all from our garden, friends give them away).
Having the kitchen re-vamped to add a utility room and looking for the largest capacity upright freezer as I'm getting a bit old to be head first into the freezer to get the packet right at the bottom! We also have a fridge freezer in the kitchen for the more immediate food needs.

I have a three drawer freezer very simple but then I m a simple gal

With just the two of us we have a 50/50 fridge freezer in the kitchen which is fine for day to day stuff. We have a chest freezer in the kitchen extension used for pre cooking when we are expecting visitors and for gluts of garden produce .

Once before here on the topic of freezing food…

I’ll never forget a GN poster said she found a (beef?) roast in her freezer that was SIX YEARS old… she thawed, cooked and ate it and said it was as good as new. 🙄 I found that to be a horrible admission - that she would actually eat something that awful, beyond the food safety window or serve to family, guests. Disgusting.

I freeze only short term for best quality/texture/flavor as things start breaking down. If you vacuum pack your meats, veggies, muffins, etc - that is best. Maybe that’s the gadget you need in your kitchen inventory.

Make sure you rotate/label your food stuffs!
USA Gundy

My goodness I’m amazed that so many have so many!
We have a large fridge freezer, one third freezer and that’s enough for us.
We do grow some veg but give away what we can’t use. I like to ring the changes and eat seasonal produce. Having said that the apples go in the shed and I bottle the pears in wine.
We used to have a big freezer when we lived in a rural area but now we have a small town near us with 4 supermarkets, a butcher and a great baker why would we need so much food?

Your freezers full of food won’t be much use in a nuclear winter - there’ll be no electricity!

I have a half and half fridge freezer. We moved last year so we are now within five minutes walking distance of a corner shop style store and ten minutes from a large supermarket. Prior to that we were a 15 minute drive away from a shop and now having such easy access has revolutionised my food storage! I have one meat/fish drawer, one veg drawer and one dessert & fruit drawer. That’s enough for two of us, I now rotate the supplies regularly and most things are eaten within a month or so. Home cooked meals I freeze flat in plastic bags (which are washed and reused) and they don’t take up much room as you can stack them like books.

I have another fridge freezer in the garage for Christmas and visitors.

I’ve got a tall larder fridge with a small freezer compartment in the kitchen, and a floor to ceiling freezer in the garage, which has nine shelves/drawers. I buy and make food for my very elderly parents who don’t live near me, so the bottom two drawers are for their stuff which I take up when I see them. The rest is full of frozen fruit and vegetables, gluten free stuff as supermarkets have a very limited range so if I go to different supermarkets I always stock up, and meals I’ve made. I always cook for more than one meal at a time because I hate cooking, I even bulk cook and freeze mashed potatoes.

Oh no - another thing to worry about; I am underfreezered...