20 Freezer Tricks Farm Wives Used So Nothing Ever Went to Waste

Last time I promised you the chest freezer. Here it is. Our freezer has sat in the cellar since 1986 with four apple boxes in it and a list taped inside the lid, and in all those winters I cannot tell you the last package that went to waste out of it. Not because we had more money. Because my mother taught me twenty things about a freezer that nobody teaches anymore, and I wrote every one of them down. I'm Loretta Granger. Forty-one years on a farm in northeast Iowa, thirty-one years teaching fourth grade. In this video: bread, bananas, milk, eggs, butter at the holiday price, herbs in oil, the flat-bag trick, why freezer burn is not spoilage, the scrap bag that makes free broth, and the one habit at the end that saves more than the other nineteen combined. Pick one tonight. The scrap bag starts with your next onion. Everything here is what worked in our farmhouse. Thaw meat in the icebox or in cold water, never on the counter. This is home experience, not professional advice. I read every comment. Tell me the oldest thing you found in your freezer tonight, and be honest.