What's lurking at the back of your freezer, will never get eaten but you can't bring yourself to sling it?

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Inspired by the batch-cooking thread.

So I'll start...two big, whole sea bass completely with eyes, bones and scales , they've been in there for months and neither DH nor I feels up to the task of preparing them. Every time we inventory the freezer, they're there glaring reproachfully at us. They're too expensive to throw out, and we would actually enjoy them if we did something with them. So there they stay.

What's living rent-free in your freezer?

@NastyBlouse

Jackie Laverty

Ha ha 😂😂

Prepared chopped sweet potato’s

I don’t even particularly like sweet potatoes plan was to make a healthy soup

*potatoes

Not potato’s

A giant tomahawk steak...

@NastyBlouse this made me howl!
Your know if you know 😂

@MooominMamma

The last mincemeat slice from the last batch that my nan made before she died. She's been gone 10 years now. I obviously have no intention of ever eating it, I also have no intention of throwing it away.

I am completely with you . I have a jar of pickled onions from the last batch my Dad ever made, circa 2009. It's just sludge now, but it's going nowhere.

OP - we had whole sea bass in the freezer for an embarrassing amount of time too, until a few months ago when I decided it was "eat or chuck" time. I recommend Jamie's YouTube video on how to fillet them, it's a lot easier than I thought it would be, and they were surprisingly nice even after so long in the freezer

@42andcounting I may have to grasp the nettle and try that! It's ridiculous, we love fish and would definitely enjoy them, it's just such a massive ballache to prepare them and neither us feels very confident about it. Maybe Jamie Oliver will help

Breast milk. 2 year old now and have no idea what to do with it but can't bring myself to throw it away as it is possibly my last baby

Lamb's liver. Possibly also the heart and whatever weird bits the farmer chucks in for free when you buy half a lamb. The gluck or something?
This year's sloes
Last year's sloes
How many years running will I pick, freeze and then ignore sloes???

@Merriwicks

Breast milk. 2 year old now and have no idea what to do with it but can't bring myself to throw it away as it is possibly my last baby

Rice pudding?

The last batch of stewed plums from a tree we planted in the garden after my Grandfather died, paid for from the small legacy he left me. As a child I used to help him make jam from his own tree. The tree had to be felled a few months later. I’m too sad about the tree (and the sentimental meaning it held for me) to get rid of the plums. They are no doubt past their useful life and that makes me sad too. I should have eaten them sooner.

Two small packets of game pieces (pheasant, venison and pigeon).

Bought last Xmas - keep meaning to make something but can't be bothered really. Might give to the cat.

Two bags of breast milk... it’s her 5th birthday soon so they really should go but having pumped for 18 months and had quite a stash I don’t know how these got missed but I can’t quite bring myself to bin them..

I often sling things in I can’t bare to eat and then pass them on to my mum she would rather eat frozen oven chips that have basically turned to flour than waste anything..!

I also have an entire freezer drawer of pheasants, partridge and wild mallard. DH shoots and although I agree with eating what you shoot, they take up so much bloody room. And it's only him that eats them.

Another one with breastmilk! It's being kept for chickenpox baths and when it's a over a litre and I remember just how many pump sessions it was to get it I can't just chuck it!

@NastyBlouse

A thai green curry thing I made. I don't cook much so I'm really proud of it but it's not particularly appetising and there's always something nicer to eat.

No idea why I leave it in there. Maybe a "just in case I fancy it one night" but it's been several months, if not over a year, now so it's obvious I won't be fancying it for dinner anytime soon and needs chucking.

I had a half leg of lamb from Easter 2019 lurking in mine plus a small sirloin roast (a yellow label buy Dec 19) Had both at Christmas as just the 2 of us. They were lovely so maybe just bite the bullet and use them. I have now got better at getting rid of stuff. The plan is hopefully to get one freezer run down so I can clean it and then move stuff from other freezer and clean it. I started planning this last February !!!!! The problem is I keep seeing these bargains in M&S and bring them home to freeze🙁

Some of your ‘freezer lodgers’ sound great. I could think of a million things to do with them.
If before we go on holiday away for two weeks usually (before lockdown) we use the freezer stuff up and the stuff on the pantry to whittle it down. At the moment we have a box of frozen cooked cocktail sausages. I’m stumped with a recipe, but dh wants to do a (mini) sausage casserole 🤔
Over lockdown we saved loads eating our way through the freezers and pantry. I’d have your whole sea bass’s.

Some breast milk from DD2. We have two freezers and it goes enne to the other during a defrost. DD2 is 9 years old. 🙃

A piece of old fish as well.
Cat will enjoy it sometime though.

A pack of lambs liver. I bought it for DH and we never got round to cooking it. He's been dead for 2 years and I can't bring myself to chuck it (same as the bottle of dandelion and burdock in the fridge that was his) - it's like accepting they will never be consumed. Stupid really.

@YerAWizardHarry

Steaks that were bought from my ex employer on the cheap when the first proper lockdown was implemented. They're definitely freezer burnt but seems mental to throw away £40 worth of fillet steak

It would probably be fine sliced up in something like stroganoff, where the sauce masks the freezer burn. Trim off any bits that are really bad.

We have too much to mention, and I know there's things that are coming up to 10 years old in there (the remains of a jar of sauce I bought from a restaurant that I really liked when working away on a notorious project that everyone remembers). I obviously didn't like it that much to eat it in anything like a timely fashion.

Far newer is an octopus that I bought when Morrisons had a half price on fancy fish deal some time last year. There's also some m&s stuffing that I bought reduced after Christmas 2019 that we didn't use this year as we got a ready made Christmas dinner delivered from a local restaurant.

Plus many tubs of soup that I've made to use up veg that's past its best but then I don't want to eat. I was determined to use WFH for the last few months as an opportunity to use these up, but I don't seem to be getting anywhere with them.

I think I'm really hoping that our 20+ YO fridge freezer will finally die and at that point I'll allow myself to throw most of it away and just keep the good stuff but that thing will probably outlive us all.

I also have several tubs of soup in mine - I made them and then didn’t like them so put them into the freezer to delay having to throw them away!

a catering size tub of satay sauce.