Courageous Joy

2007 FREEZER CHALLENGE

It was bound to happen. I've worked on a reading challenge, a scrapbook challenge, a clean up challenge, a play challenge, and now I'm going to tackle the FREEZER.

I'm going to get my freezer ready to truly SERVE me and serve me WELL during the upcoming school year. I plan to defrost it yet again, take inventory of what is hiding in the deep recesses of the thing, bake and cook and prepare sauces, breads, cookies, meals, and stock it. You can decide how YOUR freezer will best serve you. If that means cleaning and inventorying and then filling it from the frozen dinner aisle at Sam's with treats, that is fine. You decide what needs to be done for it to become your servant for the upcoming year. This challenge will run until Tuesday after Labor Day.

I've contemplated a prize. A personal sense of accomplishment seems like it would work. Then I considered either a copy of The Freezer Cooking Manual from 30 Day Gourmet by Nanci Slagle (discovered there's a new 4th edition out and considered giving away MY copy and buying the new one for myself....binding has been snipped and it's in sheet protectors and a huge notebook...but that would be tacky! ::snort::), or Frozen Assets by Deborah Taylor-Hough, or one of the zillion other books on the market...Bulk Cooking, Once a Month Cooking, Don't Panic Dinner's in the Freezer....but I realized that true freezer fanatics may have all these books. Then I considered a gift certificate to 30 day gourmet or Amazon. Then I considered that I still have to award a certificate to the reading challenge, and pick and mail books for another month on that challenge. Then I considered our budget. Then I considered that this is my spending money..... I'm still considering what the prize will be....and if it will be randomly selected from all who participate (as the book giveaways are) or if I will choose a participant who is the most gung-ho, inspiring freezer organizer/cook of the month. Note I did not say "most improved" because I suspect I would win THAT category hands down. ::snort:: Keep checking back and I'll edit this post when I figure the prize out. I've emailed 30 day Gourmet about gift certificates. The prize may yet end up being a sense of accomplishment....worked well for me on the other challenges. LOL

If you'd like to join me, here are the simple rules to participate.

1. Please leave a comment here so that I can visit your blogs and borrow your ideas. ::snort::

2. Grab the graphic if you'd like and display it on your blog (thanks to JEN - for sending me a graphic that was cuter than any I was creating! LOL) Please SAVE the graphic to YOUR computer and then use it where you'd like.

3. Post your plans or your intent to participate on your blog (don't forget to comment here so I can borrow your ideas ::snort::).

4. You can either post one blog at the end of the challenge with before and after photos....or post throughout the month and let us know how and what you are doing. Be sure to post before and after photos.....

5. Remember you choose your goals...if you simply want to clean it out and then load it with Ben and Jerry's - that will work. ::snort::