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Default Purging the freezer

On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 6:07:57 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:52:04 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 12:31:43 PM UTC-5, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> >> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:35:34 -0500, wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 Nancy Young wrote:
> >> >>On 2/10/2019 9:07 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Absolutely!Â* And shuffling things around as you add new items to the
> >> >>> freezer.Â* Take what is in the back/bottom and move it towards the front.
> >> >>
> >> >>Last fall when Ron took the express route off the roof and I had to
> >> >>do all the food providing on top of everything else, I was happy to
> >> >>mine the freezer. Nothing was really lost, being a side by side,
> >> >>but I did get to arrange things by category (vegetables, meat) so
> >> >>I knew what we had, and was happy to find containers of chili, sauce,
> >> >>stuff like that to make my life simpler.
> >> >>
> >> >>I found it much easier to keep the freezer neat when it was just
> >> >>me putting food in there.
> >> >>
> >> >>nancy
> >> >
> >> >I mark the date on everything that goes in the freezer.
> >> >Also the only item my wife keeps in the freezer are her reusable ice
> >> >packs, on one of the door shelves. I do all the arranging and nothing
> >> >gets rearranged.
> >>
> >> Ditto. I can send husband to freezer for something and tell him it is
> >> located center left or far right or whatever. Nobody messes with my
> >> organization.
> >> Janet US

> >
> >I'd never dream of restricting my husband's access to the freezer.
> >I'm as OCD as the next, but some accommodations must be made for
> >the marital state to flourish.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton

>
> My wife doesn't cook and is very happy leaving ALL the cooking to me.
> When we first met the very first time I went to her house there was a
> package of chicken parts derosting in her kitchen sink, was defrosting
> all day since early morning before she left for work. I tossed it in
> the trash and drove to the closest market and bought a chicken for
> dinner that night. She didn't even own respectable cookware.
> Fortunately her gas oven worked so I prepared the best meal she and
> her two kids ever ate.


The first time I went to his house, he fed me Caesar salad, blackened
roughy, steamed broccoli, and (IIRC) rice.

He's a Renaissance man, and I wouldn't have him any other way. Stove,
sewing machine, lathe; it's all good to him.

Cindy Hamilton