Generally, yes but we don’t always end up eating what I think we’re going to be eating before the food has defrosted.
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For years, I’ve intended to do this but last week was the first time I’ve got round to it. That’s freezing herbs in ice cube trays. I’ve always left it too late and plants have been cut down by frost. But, last week, I remembered. So, I have now have bags of ice cubes of mint, chives and tarragon (and I’ve one mint plant still growing so I’ll be able to get fresh for a while yet).
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Mrs H regards me as a toilet roll obsessive but I don’t think I’ve ever stocked more than three supermarket packs (9 rls ea)
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No, but I am getting much better. My techniques are getting better, too. A week or two ago we had about a quarter of a roasted pork loin. Instead of freezing the big chunk, which would have taken a long time to thaw, I sliced it and froze packets of slices. The other night I took one out. It thawed quickly, and sautéed with a splash of Sherry and some sage was quite good. Last night we had burgers, frozen as patties. Things that look hopeless like a big old chunk of braised pork shoulder, get their next life as something that will be all about the seasoning and the cook, crisped up for tacos al pastor. Those big bags of frozen berries that sounded so tasty and virtuous on oatmeal are finally getting used up. They get blended with oat milk and honey to make popsicles for the granddaughter. The hardest ones for me to use are the amounts that are just too small, like one or two little lamb chops
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I solve that problem by cooking them as part of a larger mezze style meal, where they are just one of several dishes on the table rather than as a “main event”. In fact, if we come across a tray of particularly thin chops, we’ll freeze them in small quantities for exactly that purpose.
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My folks had one Kenmore chest freezer, and a smaller International Harvester. Both outlasted them. As did the 1940s Frigidaire refrigerator.
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After getting price gouged on some toilet paper from Mexico (which is all we could find during the pandemic), I vowed this would not happen again.
Post pandemic, a lot of grocery stores had extra stock and just wanted to move it. Every time I saw a pack on clearance, I purchased it and shoved it under the bed or in the attic or wherever.
Recently, there was a short lived “port strike” and people started hoarding bottled water and toilet paper. Sunshine asked about our toilet paper stock, so I counted what we had and realized I had slowly accumulated over 300 rolls.
It might, just might, be time to start working down your inventory. There comes a point when the carrying cost of 300 rolls begins to exceed the price differential of that one expensive package of Mexican toilet paper, and I think you’ve well passed that point 
You are correct… Trust me, I internal arguments with my brain, but logic goes out the door.
I know there is something wrong with my brain, but buying and storing 300+ rolls of toilet paper is cheaper than therapy. (LOL)
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Nah. Good insulation.
And if RFK Jr bans toilet paper, we’ll all be jealous.
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Tonight is a perfect example. Chicken breasts were the only thing on sale this week and I’ve already served chicken (this past Wednesday).
So, I opened the big freezer, dug down a few inches found a nice pack of Tilapia, moved it to the fridge (to defrost) and that will be dinner.
I discovered recently that laundry detergent can go bad and separate, even if it hasn’t been opened previously. Horrible odor, too.
Makes me wonder how many old but unopened cleaning products I should toss.
Luckily, toilet paper doesn’t go bad!
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I just discovered Blueland. So far I use, and love, their laundry detergent and their dishwasher detergents. Both work as well as or better than any of the big name brands I have used. There is no plastic in the packaging or the products (many detergents actually contain plastic). I plan to try their other products.
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I wondered about that. We have two fridge-freezers, and a chest freezer that doesn’t self defrost. I earned pretty early on not to keep ice cream in the chest freezer if I wanted to eat or serve any within about four hours.
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I expect that such a kind of ban from him would be the least disruptive to be expected by him
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Actually, it kind of does.
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Sorry, I don’t buy it.
Unless this company is using rotten tilapia fillets, TP should have a shelf life longer than a human actuarial lifetime.
I suspect that any TP left by the Essenes in the Qumran caves would still suffice.
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I hate to be your fingers when you put your theory to test.
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When we almost ran out of toilet paper, I thought about cutting up those red textile rags that I use to work on my car/truck.
I dare say that even 30 year old toilet paper would have been softer than those rags.
Thank goodness it never came to that, but it was on the table.
This is why we have bidets in all of our homes.
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