So here’s the over/under on one type of item that I may be accused of being a freezer “hoarder” of. LoL.
I had 72 (yes, SEVENTY-TWO) quart bags of broth in the old fridge. I dumped 35 into the sink, once they thawed (I’m on septic but all of my broths are as close to fat free as I can make them). I kept 37 of them.
Note, no, I did NOT have 144 pounds of broth in there. Although all were packed in freezer quart bags, a lot of them were 2 cups, not full quarts. Maybe 90-plus pounds, though.
Anyway, the absolute age winner, all the way at the bottom, was a broth package simply labeled "Pork, January 2006". Holy crap. I also had a lot ranging from 2011 to 2018, and mostly I used age to decide what went down the sink. Although I also used appearance (if a given bag had any air intrusion and subsequent appearance of freezer burn - gone. So I kept some 2015-2018s and dumped some 2021 and later).
How the heck did I accumulate 72 bags of frozen broth? Simple. Every meal including bones (or shells) became broth. And so many meals then included bones (or shells).
I’m still heavy (on what I kept) on beef and pork. Almost all the chicken is gone because daughters 2 and 3 scrounge and steal them each time they visit. Most of the rest (the majority being beef, then pork as mentioned) are turkey, shrimp, lamb, duck, then lobster.
That last reminds me that it’s time for a nice bouillabaisse.
