Guess what hubby and I did on top of the kitchen table? We emptied out the contents of our chest freezer onto it! See, I went looking for something for dinner and one or two things got in my way. I placed them on the table and he came in and thought I was emptying the freezer so he just started helping me empty it. We found meat in the bottom of the chest freezer that was dated 2006. We found a pie down there too that was dated 12/2007. We found one package of meat that we weren’t sure what it was because it was so freezer burned and covered with frost that we couldn’t see it. Damn! I can actually see what’s in there now. See for yourself.

We also emptied out the freezer half of our side by side fridge. In there I found a piece of ice cream birthday cake from about a year and a half ago. Between the two we filled a kitchen bag with stuff that had to be tossed.Then, before we put the good food back in hubby got rid a lot of the frost that had built up.
I’m so bad, I haven’t cleaned either of these out in a long time. Well, you can sort of guess how long, can’t you! When I put the food into the freezer I was saving food. When I threw it out today I might have been saving our lives! LOL. I’d love to hear what weird things you’ve found in your freezer or fridge when cleaning it out.

Vidia
Thursday 19th of February 2009
Now I read this so I guess Ill go start cleaning mine out, thanks for the random reminder lol
Linda
Thursday 19th of February 2009
Yikes! Makes me want to do the same thing, though I'm kinda nervous about what I'd find!!
Mo (Unmainstream Mom Reads)
Wednesday 18th of February 2009
I've cleaned out my freezer to find years old mystery meat too! I haven't actually cleaned my freezer out in the last six months or so though...so I'd probably better get around to it...lol.
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Jackie
Monday 16th of February 2009
I took a turkey breast out of my freezer last week to defrost. I was going to put in in the crockpot the next day. I had visions of leftover turkey sandwiches for the following day. It wasnt until I was ready to put it in the crockpot that I realized it was from December 2007. Unfortunately, we had pizza that night and there were no turkey sandwiches. I guess I too am guilty of not cleaning out my freezer often enough.