I’d mentioned that it is important to have a freezer inventory if you’re doing Freezer Cooking, Once a Month Cooking or the like. You’d think you wouldn’t. Surely you’ll remember all that work you went to when putting up that lasagna or soup, wouldn’t you?
Friends, you won’t.
Here’s a truncated example of the freezer inventory system I have. I have a chart (made it in Excel, don’t snigger) listing the meals I make. I have up to four check boxes for how many full family meals I have frozen. An empty space means there’s no meal of that sort frozen. A diagonal line sloping up to the right means I’ve added a meal. The crossed line means I’ve used that meal, so it’s gone now.
This gets posted on the fridge, so that I can keep the list updated easily rather than wasting time and paper printing up a new one every time I add food to the freezer or heat up a frozen one. Anyone can draw a diagonal line. Anyone can heat up dinner, too. This is a good system if more than one person in the house is serving meals.