It's an insanely busy week at work, and my son injured himself & couldn't go to sports camp yesterday. So, mad scrambling to get coverage during the work day, leaving early, trip to the urgent care, etc. Luckily, he just has a very light muscle pull & is fine. My windshield also cracked on the way to Urgent Care. . .
Today, I went to our spare fridge to grab extra milk for my coffee. And, after pouring, took a big drink & realized the milk was sour. Went back to the fridge/freezer and realized that when putting away all of their various balls this weekend, one of the kids inadvertently dislodged the freezer/fridge plugged & all of the food was bad. Probably $500 or so worth of: all of my prepped meals, meat, 2 large jugs of milk, 36 organic eggs, two bricks of cheese. . .
And, all of my time of preparing all of those meals. :-(((((
Onward, and upward. It was an accident, and I got a chance to clean my fridge & freezer at 6:00 this morning. So, there's that? ;-) And, I no longer have pesky worries of how to utilize everything in my freezer.
I do need to figure out how to quickly restock what we lost & start restocking all of our freezer meals. That will be no small feat.
In awesome news, I posted an ad for a nanny, and already have a great response. We really, really need help right now, so this is awesome.
And, my kids are happy & healthy, & I have a great family. Keeping my eye on all of the good things.
I think tonight will be a yoga night. Deep breathing! :-)
Since I now need great recipes, please share your favorite freezer meals!
Ain't that the truth... bad things always come in groups. Sometimes, in hordes! That's so awful that you lost all that food! Only you can find a silver lining on such a situation, haha... sucks, truly. But yeah, guess there never was a better time to start from scratch. I love making meat sauce to freeze. Goes easy with tacos, chili, pasta, or rice. You could also go Judy style and make lasagnas and burritos. I'll be looking at a lot of chicken the next following weeks...
ReplyDeleteAnother silver lining - we store all of the meat/meal stuff in that freezer, and things like fruit, bread, etc in our indoor freezer. Lo & behold, I discovered a bunch of spaghetti sauce in our indoor freezer, so at least there are a few things to add to my meal stash. A mistake proved to be a great one. ;-)
DeleteOh crap!
ReplyDeleteSo sorry for your food loss....but any hard cheese might still be salvageable.
All the more painful after a cup of coffee with sour milk. ;-) The freezer is all sparkly clean, and is in the process of getting restocked.
DeleteUgh, I'm sorry you are having such a long day... I hope it gets better from now on!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite source for freezer meal recipes is Pinterest. They have a ton of good ideas!
I've never gotten into pinterest, but I should try it out! I love trying new recipes.
DeleteCrappy day be gone! You have a good attitude, and just think, the kids will now be paranoid about unplugging it so it will never happen again! Hoping your week goes a wee bit better
ReplyDeleteThank you - the rest of the week was a definite improvement. :)
DeleteDefinitely want to try the potstickers! Sounds fantastic. Will you have a Trader Joes near you in Kauai? Can't wait to hear all about life on the island!
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