:dunno: maybe for the cats
4 year old salmon frozen, good or not?
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My mom thought it was "frugal" to buy a small chest sized freezer,and fill it with enough food to feed a family of 12 for a few weeks....that was about 1999..
Last year,I opened the freezer,which is in the celler in the furnace room (stupid place I know!)--and I found dozens of frozen pizzas,steaks,ham,and a bunch of other things that were almost TEN years old!...it smelled like death inside!..:eck16:
I had to haul the entire freezer outside,empty it,and then wash it with bleach and the garden hose...at the bottom of the pile I found a 22 lb turkey,frozen so solid it sounded like a bowling ball when I dropped it..I left it in the woods out back,it took 3 days to thaw out,and it took about 3 weeks before it finally got dragged off by some scavenger..
The rest of the food I stuffed in a large trash bag--the guy at the dump saod "no FOOD allowed in the dumpsters!"...after a long argument,I told him I was tossing it in anyway,and if he wanted to call the cops,to go ahead--he relented and said "well--I'll let you leave it THIS time!"..(he added that only one dump in another town can accept "food products"--he suggested I take it there,or to a local pig farm,or bury it all in my garden!
)...
The freezer is still empty,unplugged,and wont be used again most likely...bet we could have saved a lot more money by NOT having it,leaving it running for 10 years,not to mention all the cash wasted it took to FILL the darn thing!...
What disturbs me,is I probably was FED some of that "food" without me knowing it came from that freezer!....:eck16:...
Last year,I opened the freezer,which is in the celler in the furnace room (stupid place I know!)--and I found dozens of frozen pizzas,steaks,ham,and a bunch of other things that were almost TEN years old!...it smelled like death inside!..:eck16:
I had to haul the entire freezer outside,empty it,and then wash it with bleach and the garden hose...at the bottom of the pile I found a 22 lb turkey,frozen so solid it sounded like a bowling ball when I dropped it..I left it in the woods out back,it took 3 days to thaw out,and it took about 3 weeks before it finally got dragged off by some scavenger..
The rest of the food I stuffed in a large trash bag--the guy at the dump saod "no FOOD allowed in the dumpsters!"...after a long argument,I told him I was tossing it in anyway,and if he wanted to call the cops,to go ahead--he relented and said "well--I'll let you leave it THIS time!"..(he added that only one dump in another town can accept "food products"--he suggested I take it there,or to a local pig farm,or bury it all in my garden!
)...The freezer is still empty,unplugged,and wont be used again most likely...bet we could have saved a lot more money by NOT having it,leaving it running for 10 years,not to mention all the cash wasted it took to FILL the darn thing!...
What disturbs me,is I probably was FED some of that "food" without me knowing it came from that freezer!....:eck16:...
About half of the food mom puts in the 2 fridges/freezers rots before she gets to it. She will take an afternoon to clean out her fridge in the kitchen and a few days later look at it and say, look at all of the room in there and splurges buying a lot more food. And the cycle begins all over again.My mom thought it was "frugal" to buy a small chest sized freezer,and fill it with enough food to feed a family of 12 for a few weeks....that was about 1999..
Last year,I opened the freezer,which is in the celler in the furnace room (stupid place I know!)--and I found dozens of frozen pizzas,steaks,ham,and a bunch of other things that were almost TEN years old!...it smelled like death inside!..:eck16:
I had to haul the entire freezer outside,empty it,and then wash it with bleach and the garden hose...at the bottom of the pile I found a 22 lb turkey,frozen so solid it sounded like a bowling ball when I dropped it..I left it in the woods out back,it took 3 days to thaw out,and it took about 3 weeks before it finally got dragged off by some scavenger..
The rest of the food I stuffed in a large trash bag--the guy at the dump saod "no FOOD allowed in the dumpsters!"...after a long argument,I told him I was tossing it in anyway,and if he wanted to call the cops,to go ahead--he relented and said "well--I'll let you leave it THIS time!"..(he added that only one dump in another town can accept "food products"--he suggested I take it there,or to a local pig farm,or bury it all in my garden!
The freezer is still empty,unplugged,and wont be used again most likely...bet we could have saved a lot more money by NOT having it,leaving it running for 10 years,not to mention all the cash wasted it took to FILL the darn thing!...
What disturbs me,is I probably was FED some of that "food" without me knowing it came from that freezer!....:eck16:...
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