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Does everyone else have ENORMOUS freezers?

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keepcalmandcavachon Tue 15-Aug-23 08:39:36

I too have a 50/50 freezer Franbern which suits my needs. Try to keep stocked up with 2 to 3 weeks worth of meat/ fish plus some portions of meals. Thats in the utility, in the kitchen I have an under counter fridge too as I seem to need more 'fresh' space.
What lucky visitors to be met with cream cakes, mine would have to make do with a hobnob! Must get more organised.....

Pittcity Tue 15-Aug-23 08:30:43

I have a 50/50 fridge freezer only. There is always space in it. DS is always complaining that there is nothing to eat.
Tell a lie, DH does have an ancient chest freezer in the garage but that is full of fishing bait.
There are 2 (sometimes 3) of us here but we are lucky enough to live in a City centre so we can just pop out for supplies daily.
I never batch cook but sometimes there is a portion left over that goes into the freezer.
The freezer is mostly half used or leftover stuff, veg and ice/ice-cream.

kittylester Tue 15-Aug-23 08:29:52

I don't have many gadgets but do overcook most meals so I can freeze the extras.

We have an American fridge freezer in the kitchen which I use for everyday stuff, bread and veg mostly though there is also grated cheese and bacon in there.

In the garage I have a full size freezer where I keep meat, fish and ice cream type things. There are also ready meals and homecooked things like casseroles, spaghetti sauce etc.

I also have an overflow 50/50 fridge freezer in the garage.

We have a large family and they can appear in any combination at any time.

Franbern Tue 15-Aug-23 08:22:04

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

Now I live by myself in a flat, have a 50/50 fridge/freezer in the kitchen and a small under the counter freezer in my garage.

In my kitchen freezer I keep a drawer each for frozen vegetables, meat items, fish items, ice cream and desserts. Always packed full, never any space for putting in my own cooked dishes. The small one in the garage is used with extras of most of the same (means I can take advantage of purchasing multiple items the same and thereby saving money. FIsh, in paricular - I get at Iceland with a twice a year visit. Along with some frozen cream cakes, so never caught out if unexpected visitors.

I suppose that with the two machines I have more freezer space than most flat dwellers, would love to know where people find all this space to put in their extra cooked portions.

I tend to purchase and use compact sizes of these kitchen machines, (soup maker and slow cooker). These give me two good sized portions) - today and tomorrow The only item I changed out from that size was the air fryer, as with the larger single drawer one I now have, I so rarely ever need the large oven.