While cleaning out my freezer last night, I was a little embarrassed: I found 11 bags of frozen cranberries that I don't remember putting there. OK, I remember putting aside a few bags after the holidays, but 11? It never fails, in the middle of July, I get a hankering for some fresh cranberry relish or chutney, and we can't get frozen cranberries out here after Christmas (why is that?), so I have to have my stash.
Digging a little more, I found 5 bags of peeled frozen bananas. You know, when they ripen perfectly for banana bread but you just can't drop everything and bake at that exact moment? I usually peel them and put 4-5 in zip-lock freezer bags so they'll be ready when I'm ready for them. Me thinks I'll be making some banana bread this weekend.
And if that isn't enough, right there, hiding under the Garden burgers, I find 4 bags of cooked and skinned chicken breast; my husband and I usually can't finish the store-bought rotisserie ones by ourselves, so I cut up what's leftover and freeze for soup. One bag was freezer-burned — so now you have a pretty good idea of how long it's been since I made chicken soup — and into the trash they went.
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Hoarding. I never knew I had it in me.
