Your Freezer, Your New Best Friend
Do you take full advantage of your kitchen freezer? You may read about the woman who cooks all weekend and freezes meals for every night of the week, but even normal people can use ice to their advantage. You don't need a free-standing freezer in order to do this; the over-the-fridge models work just fine, too.
If a food is on sale at Super-1 Foods, there's a very good chance that you can freeze it to enjoy later—when everyone else is paying full price. Ten pounds of chicken wings for $1.99 might be hard to use up, but if you can package them into 1-pound bags and freeze, you'll have 10 party trays ready for the making. If you find steaks on sale, stock up! You can enjoy the cheaper prices and still have dinner worth talking about.
Freezers also help you make the most of leftovers. Sure, you can freeze them TV-dinner style, so that meals are a snap. But you can also throw bits and pieces of dinner—a spoonful of leftover corn, a half-cup of chicken broth—and then when it's soup-making time, you'll have most of your soup ready to heat and eat.
And freezers are great places to store non-food items, too. Every family should have an ice pack ready for unexpected injuries. And nobody needs to tell you where that belongs!
Published 01/05/10
