That’s Unidentified Frozen Objects of course! So you’ve decided to get on board with making more meals for your freezer so you can pull them out on busy nights right? And you’re all set and even have some things in the freezer that you made ahead or bought on sale so you could stock up. But now dinner time has rolled around and you’re still not sure what’s for dinner because you can’t remember what’s in the freezer or can’t tell what it is now that it IS in the freezer.
Enter this handy little Freezer Inventory Form I created to help you keep track of what goes in and what comes out.
I organized it by food type instead of a more common way of doing it by date or just a running list of what’s in there. To me this makes sense because when I’m plannng my meals I want to know what I’ve got not just when I got it. And because I like color, I assigned each section a color. Of course, when you write down what’s going in it’s a good idea to jot down the date that it went in as well so you can use up older things first. What I have done that is a bit different also is I’ve added a section for my prepared meals to be listed. That way when I’m in a hurry and need to know what I can pull out and thaw for that evening’s dinner, there’s less guessing and less stress! Don’t forget to label your containers as they go in too so that when you go to look for them you will be able to find them otherwise they truly are U.F.O’s!
The key to using a form like this is to (of course) print it out and hang it near your freezer so that you’ll be sure to use it each and every time. I have mine printed out (and I even laminated it so I can use a dry erase marker and reuse it over and over again–going green in the kitchen you know!) and hung it up on a little nail hung next to my freezer (this is for the deep freezer in the garage). For the refrigerator freezer, it is printed out and put on the side of the fridge with a magnet. Easy peasy! I have whole pages for each category to use with my deep freeze and which I will be putting up on my Resource Page soon so you can use the forms that work best for you.
Hope you like this form and that you will find fewer UFOs in your freezer and start using up more of those great items before freezer burn sets in!
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