{"id":20430,"date":"2012-02-21T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/?p=20430"},"modified":"2012-02-22T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T19:27:46","slug":"why-you-need-to-organize-your-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/why-you-need-to-organize-your-freezer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Need to Organize Your Freezer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following is a guest post from Ana.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Regardless of how you feel about organizing, at one point in your life you\u2019re gonna have to admit that organizing pays off, especially if you are a busy parent with no free time left at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

People are becoming more and more aware of the benefits of freezing food. It saves you time, money, and it often helps you choose a healthy meal over junk food. How does freezing food provide these things?<\/p>\n

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Having a freezer allows you to freeze all kinds of lunch\/dinner leftovers that you can use any time in the following few months. This way you only need to double (or increase in any way) the quantity of whatever you are cooking, which doesn\u2019t require much more time, and you\u2019ve already saved yourself the time for cooking that next meal.<\/p>\n

Freezing bought and cooked food that you can ration and use prevents you from throwing away vegetables and meat that you didn\u2019t have time to prepare and eat. You wouldn\u2019t believe how much money an average person wastes this way.<\/p>\n

After a busy day when you are too tired to cook, you\u2019re tempted to grab something fast (Big Mac, slice of pizza, anything quick and yummy), but knowing that you have a bag of broccoli in the freezer that can cook in five minutes with some rice or pasta might dissuade you from your initial, impulsive plan.<\/p>\n

A messy freezer where you can\u2019t tell what\u2019s edible anymore won\u2019t really help you in eating healthy and saving time and money. But an organized freezer might.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll share with you ten simple steps to an organized freezer.<\/p>\n

For more freezer inspiration check out:<\/p>\n