Use the AnyList App to Keep Track of What is In Your Freezer

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Hi everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in todays video Ill show you yet another use for the AnyList app -- keeping track of whats in your freezer. If youve watching some of my other videos youll know that AnyList is one of my favorite apps that I use virtually every day.
I use it in the normal way -- for shopping and errands.
My video on that is kind of an app overview.
I have an use that is a bit unorthodox that helps me keep track of items that I have to bring when I leave the house for multiple activities.
AND I also use Todays List as a quick list to remember to bring things buy things or do things today.
I have one additional use for AnyList which I will share with you today and that is to keep track of what is in my freezer.So I have a friend who is a just in time shopper.
Meaning that she buys only as much food as she needs to make meals for the week.
Her freezer is practically bare.
Imagine the exact opposite of that and that is what I am! In fact a couple of years ago we had a big snow which closed grocery stores for a couple of days and just for kicks and grins I went through and counted the number of meals that I could make with what I had in my cupboards and freezer.
Most of my friends could make around 10 meals but I could make THIRTY FIVE.
Im a bit better now about striking a balance between preparing for the apocalypse and making good use of the food I have now.
BUT Im still someone who really uses her freezer.I like to buy meat in bulk package it in useable portions and freeze it for later use.
The thing is at any given time I would have no idea what was in my freezer or how old it was.
And generally whatever was in my freezer was pretty old since you cant use it if you dont know you have it! AND it was inconvenient while I was doing my meal planning to walk out to our freezing cold garage and dig around in the freezer to figure out what I could do for meals so I just wasnt doing that.
As a result I was wasting food by not using it quickly enough.
I tried a couple of solutions including keeping an Evernote memo but the one that has worked the best for me is using AnyList.I have a list called Freezer -- which I manually sort to the bottom of my lists.
In it -- I keep a list of everything in my 2 freezers.
A couple of notes: Categories - you can see that I have my items sorted by category.
To a certain extent this naturally happens in AnyList.
It has a database of items for grocery shopping and tries to anticipate the category for you.
I find it extremely helpful to have freezer items in categories so if Anylist doesnt get the category right I change it by hitting the edit button next to the item selecting Change Category and picking from this list.
I use the standard categories for Meat Seafood and Other but I created a new category called Full Meals.
I like to cook double the pasta sauce or soup when at all possible so I have a frozen meal all ready to go in my freezer.
As you can see right now I have a frozen pizza beef stroganoff meat sauce for pasta BBQ pulled pork and a ravioli stew that are full meals frozen and ready to go.
To create a new category act like you are editing the category and then choose Add Category.
Then you can choose Edit Categories to delete and reorder categories and to choose your default.
The order that you choose is not just the order the categories comes up when you edit but it is also is the order of your list.
You can see Full Meals is at the top of my list since I moved it to the top in the category list. Multiple Items - I like to shop for meat in bulk at Costco or when things go on sale so I end up with multiples of the same item.
For example Costco sells ground beef in an enormous package.
When I get home I repackage it into four more useable portions of about 1 12lb each.
So should I put in 4 different line items for each package? This is entirely up to you but I have found that having each as an individual line is a little overwhelming.
So I keep like items on one line put a dash after it and then enter the quantity.
So my ground beef looks like this.
Youll notice that I do have a couple of other line items for ground beef.
That is because I DO differentiate by the weight of the package so I have line items for 1.3lb 1.5lb and 1.8lb packages.
Again if you dont care about that you can just put them all on one line item and just realize that there will be some variability in weight.
When I use one of these packages instead of marking off the line item I hit Edit and change the quantity.
Putting the quantity at the end makes this update much easier .
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