Menu Planning and the Dead Freezer

I had a plan that was working.  I would, once a month, go and stock up on meats and frozen food items.  It saved me money by buying in bulk.  I nearly always had enough to last my large family for an entire month.  That changed last week.

Our freezer broke down.  Unfortunately, it isn't fixable.  For us, this is the second freezer in five years that has stopped working.  Frantically, we took a months worth of food and put what we could where we could.  Our poor refrigerator freezer was full.  We took food to my sister's house to store in her freezer.  We began to eat frozen items first before canned or anything else.

This unfortunate event changes the way I have to buy.  No longer, at least until I can get another freezer, will I be able to stock up on frozen foods or meats.  I am back to having to buy once every week or two.  Unfortunately, this isn't as conducive to finding the best prices and good deals.

I've decided that, due to this, I'm going to have to plan better.  Usually, I base my meals on what is in my freezer from what I have stocked up on.  Now, I'm going to have to pay closer attention to the sale ads.  I usually find that buying in bulk is a better deal than sales, but I don't really have the freezer room to buy twenty pounds of hamburger or ten chickens at a time now.  Hopefully God will bless us with a good deal on a freezer some time in the near future.