When we moved our stuff out of Mom's freezer and into our own new huge chest freezer, I took an inventory of what was in there to help me with future meal planning. I still need to go through what we have in the small chest freezer and move a portion of it out, and what we have in the above fridge freezer in the laundry room and move all of it out, and the below fridge freezer in our kitchen, but I figured this was a good start and I could put it here and then compile my spreadsheet later.
I've broken it down into categories, and then individual types within each category.
Rabbit--
15 whole cut-up
2 quart bags of liver
1 gallon bag of bones for making stock
7 bags of belly flaps for making jerky
1 container of soup
2 gallon size baggies of homemade sausage patties
1/2 a cut up rabbit
Beef--
2 skirt steaks
3 quart bags of stir-fry meat
4 pounds of ground beef
7 rib-eye thin cut steaks
1 chuck roast
2 packages hot dogs
Turkey--
1 package of 3 extra large turkey legs
1 turkey kielbasa
Chicken--
7 quart size baggies of boneless skinless
3 family size baggies of chicken legs
Pork--
4 ground
3 packages of sausages
3 packages of bacon
4 chops
Lamb--
1 ground
Elk--
1 ground
Fish--
1 package of cod
2 pounds of shrimp
Rice--
1 baggy of chicken fried rice
3 baggies of brown rice
Vegetables--
1 bag of fire roasted onions and peppers
I'm going to try to inventory the 2 fridge freezers today. The small chest freezer will probably wait until tomorrow.
I want to get through some of this meat before we buy a side of beef and a side of pork later this year. We've got the chicken way down, but only because we are going to be butchering some in a couple weeks. We also need to get moving on the rabbit as we will be butchering again in about 3 weeks and then pretty often during the summer.[
A lot of the rabbit meat needs to be ground, mixed with a little tomato sauce and seasonings, and pressed into patties. I will also do up some meatballs and cook them and freeze them for future use. The meat is packaged well, but it is from February of last year so it'll get used up faster in a more usable form. Because of how we've packaged it there has been no freezer burn or drop off in quality, but I'd still like to get the older stuff gone.
With this inventory at my fingertips I can keep it handy and we can get eaten what needs to be used up and do far less grocery shopping for protein because I will know at a glance what I have and plan around it.
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