for the chest freezer, I saw another lady use it for the raw frozen meet. She would organize it by using the purchasable shopping bags. So one bag would be filled with chicken, another pork, fish, and beef. This made it so she just had to grab the color handles she was looking for and could find what she wanted.

Is anyone else here watching for some reason even though you have an empty fridge because you’re poor? Me too. Hang in there 😌😇

Is anyone watching this during quarantine and wishing you were prepared like this lol

The avocado tip is genius! My 98 yrr old grandmother survived the great depression. She's always had 2 freezers and 2 refrigerators. She also stores dry goods in 5 gallon plastic buckets Learned a lot from her.

Sister, please! Kids are getting smart... put that chocolate in an old Brussel sprouts box! Lima beans works too.

My hack for the chest freezer is I put everything in reusable shopping bags so I had protein in one, veggies in another, fruit in one, and then "bread" type products in one and I just put them in the reusable shopping bags and then into the freezer. Then when you are looking for something in the bottom you just pull the shopping bag on top off and boom all your stuff is now easy to access! Make sure you use the strongest reusable shopping bags you have not the wimpy handle ones because they will for sure break. Hope that helps anyone else here in the comments section! :D

Adding a tip here!! If you separate the bagels before you freeze them, like tear apart each bagel and then put it back together slightly offset then put them back in the bag, you can pull them out of the freezer, separate the two halves easily and stick it right in the toaster!! :)

Getting my deep freezer this weekend!!! 🙌🙌 The things that make you excited when you’re an adult 🤣🤣

Thanks so much for all of your help! One really helpful freezer-related tip, a replacement for a vacuum-seal machine: you can submerge your bagged food in cold water, keeping the opening of the bag ABOVE THE WATER (to keep the inside of the bag dry). This will remove all air from around your food. I love this money-saving tip!

You shouldn’t typically just freeze veggies straight up. If you do, you probably want to use it within a month. Otherwise, you want to blanch them- boil for just a couple minutes (depending on the veggie) then plunge into ice water. Then you either want to portion them into small bags or flash freeze them on a tray till they’re hard and THEN dump them in a bag so they don’t all clump together. Tomatoes are an exception. No prep needed. Just freeze them. You can freeze them whole, or, what I like to do is blend them first so I have tomato sauce. Or boil the sauce down first, since it’s quite watery, to save space. Hope that helps someone 😊

Freezer tip.... buy canvas shopping bags, place similar items in them and put a tag on it to let you know what's in them and set them in your deep freeze. Then when looking for something on the bottom its easier to get to. You can also make a chart to say where in the fridge you have placed your "freezer bag". A little work up front goes a long way to making an easy find later.

I just discovered this channel and LOVE it!! I will totally incorporate Jordan's ideas into my classes I teach to young moms. I have one chest freezer exclusively for beef, though right now the other two are about half full of beef. But typically, I have one downstairs for dry goods, and buy my flour in 25 pound sacks which I will stack flat inside a huge contractor size plastic garbage bag... and actually double them. I can get about eight 25 pound sacks in one stack, as well as a huge sack of a combination of sacks of: instant potatoes, dry butter buds, bags of scalloped and au gratin potatoes, gravy mixes, and also nuts, chocolate chips, etc.. Then I have the plastic canisters of cheese powder, butter powder, peanut butter powder, and that freezer also contains much of my frozen fruit and veggies. My third, garage freezer gets the overflow of beef that will eventually end up in my beef freezer, but also has pork, chicken, ice cream and treats, and my Schwan's guy just pulls up and puts my order automatically inside, and I rarely see him! LOL And I can/preserve and/or dehydrate tons of garden produce. All of the older ladies in and around our small community who have retired from canning, have been giving me all their jars for years, and I rarely turn them down. Probably have 800 jars of food on my shelves and can year round! I LOVE to can, it is fun and so satisfying to see full shelves of stuff you grew yourself. As a cattle rancher, I totally approve Jordan's "food hoarding" as she calls it. I do some catering and lots of donated cooking for small events, so have a huge pantry. I rarely have less than 200 pounds of both flour and sugar on hand. Now that our three grown sons are out of the house and my parents are on a very tight fixed income, we typically "give" away more beef than we use. I also teach cooking classes to our clients at our local crisis pregnancy center and donate all food for that, even enough that each client gets to take home what we learn to cook. We are truly blessed and it is fun to bless others with what we have. I often feel sad that so many of my clients simply do not have a freezer other than on the top of their fridge. Some really NEED even a small chest freezer.

Being 19 and living on my own, you have honestly taught me so much!! Ahh, so thankful.

Rice🙆‍♀️ Cooked rice freezes well and reheats amazing-as a side or time saver for stuffed peppers, burritos etc....Don't throw away any cooked rice.....trust me on this one 😉

Peeling bananas first, before freezing, was one of those game changers for me!!!

"Whatssss downnn therreeeee??? Im coming for you buddyyyy!!!!" I died! You are the best Mrs. Page! 😂😂😂😂

I use milk crates to organize my chest freezer. one on the bottom for meat, one stacked above for fruit & veggies. So much faster and easier to dig stuff out of the bottom.

I thought my Dad was so odd for having a random freezer full of meat. Decades later and 4 kiddos of my own. EVERYTHING goes in the freezer. Great tips. Thanks.

Great tips. Please dont take this comment as shaming - but fact is, that I live in a country - and in a community - where ecology and environmental awareness is key and "dominating" our lifestyle, so Im torn between finding these ideas completely wonderful, frugal and "family effective", and at the same time insanely overspending electricity, plastic containers, aluminum packaging.. In our generation (1970 and forward) in Denmark, this kind of environmental consumption is such a no-go - you would never flash this practice, without causing a massive debate.. At the same time, struggling everyday life in af family is so hard, practical and sometimes almost impossible to manage without some of those strategies. Anyone else lost in the same paradox? Thanks for giving me ideas, and food for thought. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart!

Love all your videos! Personal tip- when you freeze old bananas, peel them first, it makes it much easier to thaw and looks nicer :) Great for banana bread like you said and also smoothies,

another great thing we put in our freezer is a gallon zip bag of veggie debris ( i.e. carrot peels, onion ends, broccoli stems ) when it gets full just boil it in a pot for an hour, strain it and you have an entire pot of veggie stock. You can do the same with bones from ck, beef or turkey . Makes the best broth for ck soup and you have a ton on hand if someone in the family gets sick and needs some good old fashioned ck soup.

"pretty much it will do anything except teach you French" im stealing that

So here is my freezer hack. We have a ninja but I never use the big blender top (I use the smaller one as a food processor) I put my gallon zip locks in the blender pitcher (with no blade in) wrap the zipper part over the edges and load away. Prevents a mess and makes loading pastas and casseroles so much easier!

When I was a kid, my Mom and I went to the Hostess store on the sale day and filled up (part of) our freezer with the little apple pies, Ding Dongs, Ho-Hos, etc. What a treat! Especially eating them part-frozen on a hot summer day.

Because of you I am doing so much better with block schedules and with the “15 min tuck in time” my kids aren’t fighting ... as much 🤷🏻‍♀️ so excited for this new vid!!! Thanks a ton!!

Before you get rid of your chest freezer, my dad once told me that you can turn the temperature down and use it as a storage for drinks. Also very handy for parties because you can just put all the drinks in there easy and restock easily too.

I’m so tired of always googling or calling my mom to ask about freezing stuff😂 glad I found this video

This was great! My mom, whom I still live with at 24 (yes, we share the rent and split everything like roomates) has had this GIGANTIC chest freezer for about 30 years, still works great. We were super low income growing up so she needed it to keep us fed when things were pricier, like for instance, beef roasts RARELY go on sale. Anyways, I knew most of this stuff already, but great video, makes me think we should consider a standing freezer. Tip, you can also freeze milk, my sister worked at a 711 and when they would dispose of the jugs that were near expiry she could take some. Now, I'm not a big fan of drinking previously frozen milk, but the taste doesn't change much at all, and it's still great for cooking or smoothies, but our favourite was chocolate milk, because we always mix that like 40/60 with regular milk anyways that was a great way to prolong the life until we could drink it. I still freeze cheese in a block, because I don't usually defrost it hoping to use it for slices, I find the taste changes a bit if you eat it plain anyways so I use previously frozen cheese almost exclusively for cooking, and when it's crumbly it shreds super easy! 😂 And I find bananas can go in the freezer naked as long as the peel is intact, when they get nice and black I just toss them in, no baggie required, and they're fine for a LONG time. Like over a year. They still make excellent banana bread. Just pop them in a bowl to defrost because they will be floppy and the skin easy breaks open once they start softening. Just defrost in the fridge, or I've even rested the bowl across another big pot or bowl of hot water, then cover the banana bowl with a lid or a plate and it warms it to defrost fast, or I guess microwave but honestly the water trick makes it so fast, by the time I'm ready to add them to my bread mix they are soft as long as I take them out before I get the bowls and stuff all together. Like 5 mins max. And the upside to those big chest freezers that are big enough for a person is that they stay frozen for a long time even in power outages. We've had 3 days of outages before, and we just locked the big freezer and used the food in the fridge one for those days, about 11pm on the third day power came back and everything in the freezer was still solid as a rock. I doubted my mom about it lasting on the first day of that outage, but not any more. That thing is a vault. Of course it will eventually melt but it takes ages. Of course, appliances vary so don't take my word for it for your own freezer, and always check everything once the power comes back and you can safely open it without risking accelerating the defrost. I think we only had one time when we lost a freezer load, and thankfully it was just the small fridge one, I guess it was slightly open when we left for a week and a half and when we got back everything was half defrosted. So sad. Thanks for the tips, I keep thinking that a freezer inventory would be so helpful, but I haven't done it yet, just do my best to keep inventory in my head. 😊

Got a couple of good tips, thank you. I'm European and watching the American super-sized fridges and freezers usually scares me. Jordan's family is one of those few that actually needs it :) Still, the amount of single usage containers is overwhelming!

The free printable is just what I need! I’m going to laminate it so I can reuse it with a marker like a whiteboard 😁 Also, I recommend using silicone zip lock bags because they are easy to clean and are reusable so you help save the environment and money 👍 Plus individual meal portions in Tupperware is great if you live alone or if your family want different things for dinner/ have different plans for the evening so don’t all eat together ☺️

Loving how you present!! Yes, bulk buying when on offer and freeze! Loving you girl! 👏👏👏👏👏

Conclusion: Freeze everything.

Also eggs! Not whole eggs in the shell but eggs wisked up for, casseroles, scrambled eggs, recipes etc. I've worked in many restaurants and most places have giant bags of frozen egg . Also cooked eggs like when you buy frozen egg patties for breakfast sandwiches you can make yourself!

PLEASE tell me you are working on a book or two because if not you totally should. I would keep them all on hand 24/7.

When the apocalypse starts we all know where to go 😁 Helpful video 👍🏻👍🏻

OMG, when I was growing up we had a huge chest freezer. My Dad was extremely OCD about it. Every spring when they got their tax refund my parents would buy half a cow and half a pig, and several chickens, from a local butchers. Dad would be very military about how things were put in the freezer and he kept a list taped to the outside of the lid with a drawing as to where stuff was and how many there were. If anyone took anything out and didn't mark it off there was hell to pay. But it meant that we had fresh meat all year long. I wish I had one but I can't afford it and there's no room in my apartment for one. Loved your video, it made me smile and remember my Dad.

"What's down there?!?! We're coming for ya buddy!!" LOL Jordan, you're hilarious. Love the video, Love you, Keep up the good work girl!

We had 4 kids in our family. My parents bought a side of beef (half a cow) once a year and just supplemented with chicken and sausage. usually lasted all year.

I bought a freezer 'cause of this video. Couldn't afford an upright, but excited to work with the chest and be grateful. Thanks for making this video! I learned a lot.

Black Friday is a great time of year to buy pyrex glass reusable containers. You can freeze and heat in them. Long term might even save money. Great freezer tour!

Spending HOURS watching you as research for when i get to be a stay at home mom :)

For deep freezers, I like to use milk crates or something similar that stacks to help get to the bottom stuff.

A tip with a vacuum sealer is not only to vacuum out the air but you can also just use the seal function and it will seal anything, even potato chips bags and prevent air to get in and make the chips soggy and weird taste. I seal anything in the pantry :)

I can really relate to bending over into the deep freezer. You gave me a good laugh hollering into the freezer. 😁 Husband finally had mercy on me and bought me a tall upright freezer. I really enjoy my tall upright freezer but it is packed full. The refrigerator freezer is packed too. Girl, I need another one to fill up!!❤️😁

You actually saved my summer with your frozen meat and cheese sandwich and frozen pbj idea. You are the queen of the freezer!❤️

We bought a chest freezer for our apartment and it has been a blessing. You're the main reason I bought one, and my thoughts were when we move it will become our meat freezee!

Thank you, Jordan, for sharing how you survive and thrive raising all those precious souls. You are quite amazing.

You have such an amazing spirit! The first video I watched from your channel was the laundry one (which is AMAZING). More people need to be like you. You seem young at heart which many people lose when they get older or have children. Your videos are great for so many demographics (I'm speaking as a single 25 year old, so yeah). I hope to be a supermom like you someday!

I live in SoCal and we have a lot of citrus that grows. What I like to do is juice it then freeze it. Ie. oranges, I juice several into a container or freezer bag and pull it out for marinades or homemade oj. Lemons, I like to juice and freeze into an ice tray...from there I toss them in a freezer bag and can add a cube or two to hot tea, water, seafood, etc. I froze sour cream once and it thawed chunky so I figured it was bad...next time I do that I'll use it for cooking, thanks for the info!

I miss having multiple freezers! 😭 I do agree with going in on half a cow with someone it’s so convenient!

All I can think about is "oh man if the power goes out..."

My momma’s apparently a freezer queen because she’s been doing this since before I was born. Love the tips though. Thank you!

I have a chest freezer. Sucker is deep. Sadly it ain't very full atm. Plus side if you have a small house you can actually use your freezer as an extra table or prep area. Make some yummy bread and prep it on the top of the freezer. Just be sure to clean it before and after. For my chest freezer I plan to put plastic bins in it and basically start organizing the bins for what goes in and inventory that way if I need something I can easily get to the bottom. Reach in pull a bin out and grab what I need and then put the bin back.

Please share your cranberry salsa recipe! Loved the freezer tour- thank you.

Oh my gosh you can feed your family for at least 6 months with just freezer foods! Your freezers are goals!

I love your vids! They are soo educational! Im a single mommy of 5 and I struggle with food shopping, budgeting.. ugh everything you name it! You give me such inspiration on how to be more organized. I love watching your vids!

Its funny I've been watching you straight through for a week now, going through old videos and such. We are doing a lot of things "the frugal way" but just need to fine tune and tweek them to be more money saving. thank you for all the tips you post!

I freeze leftover chicken broth when I don't use the whole can or box or even homemade..I also freeze leftover tomatoes paste, enchilada sauce or just plain tomato sauce..I also save the tomato juice from canned whole tomates and freeze it for future use in soups, sauces or when making chili..which reminds me, you can also cook dry beans and drain the water, then freeze for future use.. There's so much more.. pretty unlimited what you can freeze!

I have been binge watching your videos. I feel so inspired. I feel like you've gotten me out of my funk. Thank you so much. You are the mom I'm trying to be!

I have one for ya,i buy a bunch of parsley n clean it and put it in ice cube tray.Half gets melted butter over it n the rest gets olive oil! I have fresh parsley ready to go for shrimp scampi or whatever.

If you watch "Do It On A Dime" she shows you how to organize your chest freezer. She has containers and ways to never loose what is at the bottom of your freezer.

Love this! Jordan you have such useful videos!!!! I Instead of the freezer cube, I lay my bags flat on sheet trays to freeze. Once frozen, I stack them upright in some of those cheap dollar store bins were I can sort them out by contents. I also freeze my meatballs, sliced bananas, cookie dough balls, etc on sheet trays so they can easily be separated once I store them in the freezer bags.

You don't need to go shopping, because you have enough frozen food to last you a year. Keep these freezer organising coming. I love it.

I have a very fond memory of helping my cousins clean out their deep freezer when I was a kid. We laughed so hard at all the "mystery" things we found! We have an upright freezer and love it!

Thanks for that Jordan I appreciate it I knew 90% of that I forgot about some of the things but thank you so much it was really nice to know but I didn’t know that about tall freezers I grew up with the chest freezers like you don’t think about it so The tall freezer is a better way to go thank you so much

I cook an abundance of soup, chili, spaghetti and beans and freeze them in the Kerr canning jars. Good for grab and go for my hubs lunch.

Awesome. I love freezers. Excellent idea. Thanks you for the printables.

I have a plot of land and grow a lot of veggies, right now I am doing beans, runner beans, French beans. Prep is easy, when you gym fresh so just wash and cut, no blanching. 👍👍👍👍

I'm slowly becoming a food hoarder and I honestly love the feeling lol

Just a Tipp An empty freezer uses more energy then a full one because food or liquids hold the temperature better then the air in your freezer. So you should consider shutting the nearly empty one off.

Love it! Having 2 chest and 2 upright freezers this is helpful! Especially the inventory sheet for the chest.

Can't tell you how much I love your videos! Your personality is amazing!

I lost it at, "We're coming for you buddy! "

My freezer is always empty haha this video made me want to start hoarding food too. Didn’t even think of it as being a huge money saver

LOL looks like you and I have the same freezer contents. Got 9 kiddos and love my freezers. Get 1/2 cow. We have a generator as back up in case of power outages. Got to protect our investment. Love your upbeat presentation. Thank you for showing us your lifestyle.

Finally! Yes!! I’m a total newbie.. I’m also plant based so any modifiable recipient are always welcome:)

Growing up my parents would do a half a cow and a half a pig every 6 months. When I had a houseful of kids still living home I did the same. Now I just have one teenager and he's not a huge eater so we use the bottom shelf to store water. A freezer should be kept full to work most efficiently. Great video!

Just found you about a week and a half ago and did a big Costco run...girl, I've got 4lbs of shredded cheese in the freezer now ;) I had no idea!

I buy about a dozen large onions at a time, dice them by hand, other types of dicers make them too juicy and they stick together, but by doing them by hand with a knife, I freeze them in gallon freezer bags and slam the frozen bag on counter which breaks them apart making it simple to pour out what I need. I do the same with green peppers, carrots and celery. I always have them ready for soups, stews and recipes. I also make several batches of chili, pasta sauce with meat, lasagna and various other recipes to freeze. I have a deep freezer and it came with dividers and I always store the same things in each section. I also store a lot of stuff in cloth shopping bags with handles, like all of my chicken in one bag, pork in another etc. So I can easily lift them out and find what I want. I also empty my freezer at least every month or two and reorganize it so I have a good idea what is in there and things dont get forgotten. I also like to make home made, waffles, cookies and or cookie dough and freeze that. I almost always cook my meat when I buy it, then freeze it, today I cooked 4 beef roasts in my roaster, I also like cooking ribs and chicken to freeze. Sometimes I buy a lot of fried chicken when it on sale and freeze that because I am really not very good at making fried chicken. I also cook, bacon, breakfast sausage, grilled hamburgers, brats and grilled hot dogs and freeze them, so simple to heat one or more for a quick lunch. I have a question, I want to make stews and soup to freeze with potatos in them but I have had potatos that tasted grainy after freezing, have you tried it and how were the potatos?

love it, l have 2 freezers and pretty much freeze everything! Their are things l didn't know l could freeze and now l can do it! The Freezer cube will be great for me! Thanks so much!

love it and yes l have 2 freezers plus the freezer with my fridge and yes, l freeze all those and l also learned a bunch! Thanks so much, loved it and love you belly growing!

The only thing I learned here , is that I can freeze whole avocados .. That is great to know . Thank you !

You are a woman after my own heart! I’ve never met a freezer hoarder like me! I have three!

Love this video. And your kitchen is simply gorgeous!!!!!

Jordan, this was such an awesome video. Thank you! We have three freezers and I thought I was the freezer lady, but you are! :) Congratulations on your pregnancy. We just had our baby boy and loving the newborn phase. ~Jennifer xx

I soooo wish we had invested in a regular freezer, instead of the rectangular chest style. You’re so right! It’s very very difficult to get to that stuff on the bottom. Which makes us even less inclined to use it. Right now we have two turkeys down there but who knows what else has fallen alongside it and we’ve forgotten about?!?! 🙈

She's golden if there's a snow storm.

This is blowing my mind! 🤯 Your video is more thorough than all the google searches I did to see what food I can freeze. Thank you! 😊

For bulk meat, theres a new group that has come around since Zaycon went out, it's called The Savory Butcher! They're doing pilot work right now, their pilot in utah went really well! So maybe you can catch them on their next go around!

Never leave a freezer mostly empty! Air reheats really quickly so every time you open it the power usage goes up significantly. However, a bottle or jar of water is ultra low cost to make and prevents that issue as the amount of energy needed to change waters temperature is several magnitudes higher than that of air. This goes the same for fridges that sit mostly empty on a regular basis. If, like most people, you don't have particularly cold tap water in the summer these bottles also double as a consistent supply of ice water too.

This was so imformative and a reminder that I could be doing so much more with our chest freezer and saving money. Thanks!

I'm also a freezer freak and so is my husband. One tip on freezing bananas is to buy a bunch on sale, peel them all. And then lay each peeled banana on a big sheet of plastic wrap. Take a knife and gently cut the banana up into sections. Then roll the plastic wrap up tightly around each banana. Then put them in your freezer until frozen. Then you can vacuum seal as many as you think you will use for your servings. They don't turn brown for along time. We take out two bananas at a time and use them in our smoothies with some milk or yogurt and also put in some frozen berries. The frozen fruits make the smoothie nice and thick and cold. Also I put a dash of cinnamon in it too. Another thing we freeze is our pet bird seed, we have 6 birds and we go through alot of seed. So we buy in bulk for them. Also we freeze their millet-sprays too, we vacuum seal those. And when we had our dogs, we would buy large bags of dog food and divide it up and freeze some of it. We also freeze my homemade noodles and flour and Drakes and Bisqwick so it keeps the bugs out the stuff if we don't use it up right away. I also vacuum seal apples that we over bought and I soaked them in water with lemon juice, then after soaking them, I put them in my salad spinner to get most of the water off them. Then they got vacumn sealed and into the freezer they go too. I even tried pototoes too, I peeled them soaked them lightly in lemon juice, spun them out and vacuum sealed them also. They last about a month or two. You'll never taste the lemon juice when you go to mash them. So these are just a few tips that I thought I'd share with you. Thank you for all of your tips, I learned something new tonight.

Peel the bananas first before freezing!

At our last (small)house we kept a small "dead body freezer" ;) in the dining/school room. Our kids even kept magnetic letters on the front. It was great♡

Great video....my hubby and I always ask what we want for our anniversary (so no guessing or disappointment😁)....this year I asked for an upright freezer..so yaya...and he wanted the same so win win. Thank you for the tour and the ideas and just being you!~BB

Great video I am a senior with a small upright and it is wonderful. I also love my vacuum sealer.

You said you don't like to bake, I want a separate freezer just for my baking! Lol oh the cookies, muffins and yeast rolls that would be pouring out of that thing! Lol oh and sheet cake. Have you ever had sheet cake from the freezer??? Pop it in the microwave long enough to pour a tall glass of milk. Guilty pleasure!

Mind blown about freezing the 🥑🥑whole avocados!!! 🥑🥑

Such a beautiful personality!!!!! So real, so raw ,so inspiring 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

Good tips, I have had a Food Saver for over 20 years love it and can save money using them . I freeze everything I can. I even put flour , sugar , cornmeal, coffee, coffee mate . When I pull from the cabinets or freezer then I put it on the list for next week to buy that’s how I stay stocked and things go on sale and in buying in buck. Have a Great Day .