Welcome To Day 11 & 12 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge!
[Read Day 10 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge Here]
Before we get into day 11 & 12, if you’re new to the challenge, I’m taking a little break from my regular postings in December to do a Challenge designed to help save money, simplify, and prepare for the new year:
The “Empty The Freezer Challenge”
What is it? The Empty The Freezer Challenge is my way of encouraging you to not only slow down this season, but save money and get creative! I would guess that most of you are like us: you have tons of food in your freezer which may or may not be edible, that you’ve either forgotten or aren’t super motivated to eat.
They may require some creative meal preparation or presentation, but they’re still good to eat!
Starting December 1st, I’ll by on a mission to use up everything in my freezer – that is still safe to eat. I don’t want to buy anything from the grocery store except for milk. We get eggs from friends who have chickens, so don’t think we’re avoiding using eggs – we’re not.
We may or may not get through all of the food in our THREE freezers, but we’re going to try! Then, on December 25th when we have family over I’ll finally be able to cook with new food from the grocery store!
What Will The Challenge Accomplish?
The Empty The Freezer Challenge have several purposes:
- It will encourage you to spend very little/no money on groceries during most of the month of December – a no-spend month of sorts, but without calling it that.
- It will get tons of food our of your freezer!
- And it will give you a blank slate for the new year – at least as far as your fridge/freezer are concerned
- As a bonus, your family will probably complain a lot less in 2016 when you make a creative or inexpensive meal!
We were on the road this weekend, from Thursday night until Sunday night, so suffice to say we didn’t do a lot of cooking!
Instead, we spent time at my husband’s National Guard Unit, attended a couple of holiday parties, and of course took our daughter to meet Santa!
She wasn’t very impressed, and of course we ate out quite a bit, but what better month to have a stretch of traveling & eating out than a month where we have yet to purchase groceries??
Stay tuned for Day 13 tomorrow, when we get back in the swing of Emptying The Freezer
Gretchen
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