good grief, have any of you "accidently" tossed something from your freezer

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randi

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that you really, really were looking forward to cooking?

I always put meat & fish scraps in a plastic bag and put them in the freezer till garbage day. that way my garbage can doesn't stink so bad there are buzzards hovering over it.

yesterday morning, I grabed the plastic bags from the freezer and tossed them into the garbage. last night I was vaccum sealing 24 lbs of blueberries. I went to the freezer to get the 2 lb bag of smelts to seal them until the september fritto misto I've so been looking forward to. to my horror they weren't there and I musta tossed them with the scraps :-0

I'm just devestated as you can only get smelts once a year and I can't replace them.... wahhhhh!

 
Randi, sorry for your loss.........what a disappointment. Haven't lost anything from my freezer

except for some stock I was saving......DH made that decision. But, last spring when we redid our kitchen I stored some cookie cutters and various other dodads in a green garbage bag and they got thrown out. Sob!

Worse than that........a friend had put the family's winter boots into a green garbage bag for storage. Her efficient DH put them out on garbage day. Ouch!

 
My problem is setting something on top pf the freezer while I "dig" something else out. Then

forgetting to put it back!

 
So sorry, but glad to hear I'm not the only one who freezes their garbage. If it's bad there, think

what it's like in FL! Note to self, be very careful when taking out the 'garbage'.

 
What a shame. It reminds me of the time I dropped off a bunch of clothes for donation...

and gave them all my dry cleaning too. Doh!

 
Not a problem in Fla. where I live. We have large dumpsters in the alleys; we empty our garbage any

day any time; it's picked up 2X/wk. No animal can open it or climb into it. Folks that don't live on alleys store smaller dumpsters on their property and still, no animal can open it or get into it.

 
thanks for the warning about tossing other stuff too. think it's time for a system. garbage in

kitchen freezer and food in garage freezer. nothing like learning the hard way '-))

 
it's not so much a matter of animals getting in, it's opening the lid and getting knocked on your

bottom by the stench. it's just the two of us and usually bones and small scraps that go in the freezer so it doesn't take much space in there. just awareness of what your tossing '-))

 
Amazingly, it's rare that there's a stench....most everyone has their trash in plastic bags; even

with used cat litter being thrown out too, you'd think with our heat and humidity it would be awful. The bins are really big and our garbage is picked 2x/week.

 
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