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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: OhLaLa on May 08, 2013, 06:46:19 pm

Title: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: OhLaLa on May 08, 2013, 06:46:19 pm

Hello again smallholders. As a follow on to the 'fridge' thread, what's taking over your freezer?
Us - chicken!
You?

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: devonlad on May 08, 2013, 08:46:11 pm

bit of everything- still munching through our pork including sausages and bacon- got 4-5 chickens the size of ostriches and a couple of lambs- 1/2 grass finished rare breed lamb for 60 quid anyone- its scrummy- luckily we got given an ex shop display freezer last year- takes up all our shed but still bags of room inside.

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 08, 2013, 08:47:41 pm

Goat!  :goat: Both meat and milk.  ;D

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: MAK on May 08, 2013, 10:40:18 pm

The freezers are full with 2 pigs a few ducks and several rabbits. The bad news is that we have 13 young rabbits running around and 2 ducks sat on 30 eggs and 3 baby GOS that arrived yesterday. I just hope that my neighbour does not give us the rose veal he promised over a glass of whiskey ast night.

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: suziequeue on May 08, 2013, 10:49:01 pm

Pork in the main chest freezer in the garage and lamb in the small chest freezer in the utility room as well as elderflower cordial, home made ready meals (still some turkey things from Christmas and a huge load of pork chilli that OH did last week), pesto from last year's basil .... then I've got all the stock and frozen veg in the  kitchen fridge freezer.... Mmmmm I'll be needing another freezer soon......

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: ellied on May 09, 2013, 08:20:07 am

Home made quiches with 4-5 eggs in each  ::)   Shortly to be joined by some baking if I can manage anything worth keeping that also makes it to the freezer  :D

Also got a couple loaves of spare bread and some safety net milk in case I don't get to the shops for a while and run out.

Just starting on filling it with rhubarb, first crop of the season, but there's plenty space just now as winter is a using up phase  :)

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: Clarebelle on May 09, 2013, 08:22:45 am

Not much at the moment! Waiting to fill it will our first lot of quail/rabbits. Also waiting for half a pig to put in there! So just bits and bobs at the moment

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: plumseverywhere on May 09, 2013, 12:28:09 pm

goats milk for soap making! in 2 freezers. 1 freezer has 'food' in it (preserved veg etc)

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: Greenerlife on May 09, 2013, 12:55:47 pm

The pork I want is at the bottom and is likely to stay there a while.
The goats milk I don't want to use at the moment is at the top.
God knows what's in the middle.

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: Daisys Mum on May 09, 2013, 02:27:51 pm

Pork, Lamb, Beef and then a lot of cr*p that nobody will ever eat but seemed like a bargain at the time  ;D

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: colliewobbles on May 09, 2013, 02:31:09 pm

Raw bones and meat offcuts which we get free from our butcher and use to feed the dogs.   :dog:   :dog:

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: Marsbar on May 09, 2013, 06:06:54 pm

2 x OSB
1 x Mangalitza
 :pig: :pig: :pig:

Title: Re: What's taking over your freezer?
Post by: Fowgill Farm on May 10, 2013, 09:41:24 am

2 x GOS (mix of pork & bacon)  :pig: :pig:
mandy :pig: