Comments on: "Eating It Down" — The New Phrase In Our House

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:58:00 +0000

That’s hysterical! That phrase is great!

My husband hates it when I say “Well, let’s have lasagna – we can eat off that for days” He said it’s like a lion feasting on a corpse or something and it grosses him out.

By: Her Royal Highness

Her Royal Highness — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:36:00 +0000

Generally, I “eat down” the item that’s taking the most room up in the freezer 😉 Last week, it was a full chicken and milk. I have a 3/4 freezer, so I’m REALLY tight on space. I pulled out one of the half-gals of milk (there’s five in there) and one of the chickens (there’s two) and cooked the beastie up, drank milk all week, and suddenly found myself with room!

Also, I like to do Random Acts of Kindness. I live in an apartment building and every now and again, the items I get for “free” don’t taste good for me – case in point, some halloween candy that I’ve had in my freezer since …well, halloween… As I live in an apartment building, I just took them down to the main lobby and set them on a table with a note, “Free for me, free for you! Happy Random Act of Kindness Day.”

Since I didn’t really want to eat them anyway, and since they were free, I passed them on to someone who would eat them and thus, freed space up in the freezer.

By: Chance

Chance — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:50:00 +0000

We do this too, and it saves us money in the end. We have an “eat-down” challenge every month or so, where we get bits that have been stashed in the freezer, the random jar of chickpeas, or something we don’t use very often and build a menu around the excess cupboard stuff. An “eat-down” is a lot of fun and creative, and rotates the stashed food. Watching my daughter learn to make hummus rather than buying it was priceless.

By: Kate@LivingTheFrugalLife

Kate@LivingTheFrugalLife — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:45:00 +0000

We don't use that phrase, but we do this a lot. In fact, given the amount of garden produce in the chest freezer, this is pretty much our default mode when it comes to meal preparation. It was an adjustment, but I've gotten used to it and even enjoy it now.

-Kate