The Hobo-Chic Project: Freezer Jenga & Bathroom Floor Reveal

It's time again for our favourite game - Freezer Jenga.

We inevitably buy a ~~buttload~~ bunch of meat everytime we go to Costco. We love the quality of the meat and the price per kilogram is pretty sweet too.

A couple trips ago, we did math in store and realized the striploin steaks that we keep buying would actually be cheaper if we did the cutting of the striploin ourselves. So since then, we have sharpened up our chef knives and got chopping.

For a striploin that is about $80-90 we find we tend to get about 18-20 decently sized steaks. With the cost per kg, this works out to about $4/steak. A far cry from the $6 we were paying to have the butcher chop them.

So D got slicing and I got to take everything out of the freezer. Here's the before shot. (I actually had done the door a couple days ago when I had some time).

One of our main impediments in our tiny freezer is the turkey that didn't get eaten on Steaksgiving (or Thanksgiving). I had a freezer-side peanut gallery too.

One of the tips I found recently was to take the ground beef and flatten it in the freezer bag so it's thin and you can get more in. This helped a lot! Plus it makes the meat defrost quickly in the sink, which I love.

Here's the finished product after an hour or so of work by both of us to bag, label and sort. This is enough meat to last us several months.

In case you're wondering what's in there:

One big turkey
6 medium freezer bags of ground beef
1 bag of homemade wontons
2 bags of Kraft shredded cheese
2 blocks of mozzarella cheese
14 drinkable yogurts
A large ziplock baggie full of frozen breastmilk
11 frozen waffles
1 medium bag of frozen peas from our garden
1 large bag of frozen beans from our garden
6 lbs of butter
4 spiced packages of haddock
1 slab of peameal bacon
1 lb of strip bacon
2 leftover frozen casserole dinners
3 packages of burgers
4 boxes of frozen tart shells
2 large freezer bags full of pork ribs
8 medium bags of chicken breast
2 medium bags of chicken cutlets
2 medium bags of turkey breast
5 medium bags of pork souvlaki
2 salmon steaks
8 large bags of striploin steaks
1 first-aid cold package

I find our stacking impressive. But not as impressive as the grout in the bathroom.

It was a huge sigh of relief that the grout went very easily with these tiles after the disaster we had in our other bathroom. We used a higher quality tile sealer, and the expense of this, we feel has been well-worth it. The product we used this time is DuPont StoneTech Professional Enhancer Pro Sealer.

We are all looking forward to having a toilet on the main level again, we have not had one upstairs since Jo was born!