{"id":470,"date":"2009-08-31T21:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T01:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2009-08-31T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T01:11:52","slug":"sneaking-up-on-freezer-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/31\/sneaking-up-on-freezer-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneaking Up on Freezer Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-471\" title=\"Freezer Inventory\" src=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Freezer-Inventory.jpg\" alt=\"Freezer Inventory\" width=\"361\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d mentioned that it is important to have a freezer inventory if you&#8217;re doing Freezer Cooking, Once a Month Cooking or the like. \u00a0 You&#8217;d think you wouldn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Surely you&#8217;ll remember all that work you went to when putting up that lasagna or soup, wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Friends, you won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a truncated example of the freezer inventory system I have.\u00a0 I have a chart (made it in Excel, don&#8217;t snigger) listing the meals I make.\u00a0\u00a0 I have up to four check boxes for how many full family meals I have frozen.\u00a0 An empty space means there&#8217;s no meal of that sort frozen.\u00a0 A diagonal line sloping up to the right means I&#8217;ve added a meal.\u00a0 The crossed line means I&#8217;ve used that meal, so it&#8217;s gone now.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 Anyone can draw a diagonal line.\u00a0 Anyone can heat up dinner, too.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a good system if more than one person in the house is serving meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d mentioned that it is important to have a freezer inventory if you&#8217;re doing Freezer Cooking, Once a Month Cooking or the like. \u00a0 You&#8217;d think you wouldn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Surely you&#8217;ll remember all that work you went to when putting up that lasagna or soup, wouldn&#8217;t you? Friends, you won&#8217;t. Here&#8217;s a truncated example of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/31\/sneaking-up-on-freezer-cooking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sneaking Up on Freezer Cooking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-frugality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}