Freezer Challenge | I made so much broth!

I now have no bones in my freezer.  Zippo. Zilch. Nada. A bone-free freezer. Yay me!

I cooked up the turkey bones into broth one day.

And then I roasted the beef bones and made them into broth another day.

So, my freezer does have broth in it, but I still consider that a win.

Because now instead of bags of bones, I have a readily usable food product.

(That lid in the front has covered beef broth, then chicken broth, and now turkey broth. Ha.)

I cannot tell you how happy I am to have the bones used.

ALSO: I already used some of my beef broth in a pot of tortellini soup. Yay me!

I’ve been steadily eating the Everything bagels.

And I’m pleased to say I have exactly one left.

I thawed the rolls, let them rise, and baked them one night to go with soup for dinner.

(These are basic rolls that I froze after shaping, but before rising.)

Mr. FG and Sonia went out for dinner last Saturday, so Zoe and I ate the meatballs from the freezer for dinner.

Which means the only thing I didn’t get to from last week was the bag of walnuts.

All in all, a pretty good week!

This week’s freezer stuff

Some of these things have been here before. Maybe the second or third time is the charm!

Left to right, top to bottom:

• walnuts
• shredded mozzarella (x3)
• whole almonds
• misc. bag of frozen fruit
• watermelon
• pineapple
• frozen berries

If I buy some dates, I can make walnut/date balls.

I could make pizza with the mozzarella.

I can use the almonds in granola.

And the fruit should go into some smoothies.

Although…I just remembered that I should make some fruity baked oatmeal! That would be a warm way to use up some frozen fruit.

Much more appealing in December than a smoothie.

However, I am not going to use the watermelon in the oatmeal. I can only see that being successful in the blender as a smoothie!

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I think that I might only need one more freezer challenge week after this one, and then I’ll be ready to do an easy defrost of my chest freezer. 

I can’t believe I’m finally getting to the bottom of all the clutter I started with!

Thank you for cheering me on, guys. I don’t think I’d have stuck with this for so long without you!