What Japanese Families Do With Their Freezer That We Don't

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ Open your freezer and look at the back wall. A gray brick of ground beef you can't date, half a bag of spilled peas, something in foil that could be anything. That freezer cost four or five hundred dollars and runs all day and night, and for most of us it's where food goes to die slowly. My daughter-in-law from Osaka feeds four people out of a freezer a third the size of mine and hardly throws anything away. Our grandmothers would have understood her right away. In this one I'll walk you through what Japanese families do with their freezer that we don't: 🧊 Flat and thin, always: freezing fast on a metal tray, and standing bags on edge like files 🍚 Rice wrapped hot in single pucks, and raw mushrooms that taste better frozen 🧄 Ginger, garlic and green onions kept frozen so the flavor base never rots in the drawer 🍗 Meat seasoned on the way in, frozen tofu that eats like something else, and broth in ice cube trays …and the one easy trick to start with this week. We use the freezer for storage. They use it as a tool. Twenty minutes on shopping day, and you keep your money right where it belongs. If saving money and a smarter kitchen sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 What's in the back of your freezer right now that you can't put a date on? Tell me down in the comments. #frugalliving #savemoney #freezertips #mealprep #foodwaste #kitchenhacks #japanesehome #homemaking #householdtips