Organizing Multiple Freezers

A few weeks ago I purchased a freezer for the garage.  The freezer in the frig is just way too small and I was tired of going to the store every week for meat.  I was absolutely ecstatic when we grabbed one and instantly ran to Sam's Club and bought steaks, brauts, hotdogs, chicken, pork chops, you name it, I bought it!  I had to load up my new freezer!

Then came the time to plan out the week for dinner.  Can you believe I couldn't remember what I had in the freezer, how many I had or where in the world it was!?!  Was it in the kitchen freezer or the garage freezer?  My mind was in total turmoil!  I needed to get this under control fast or I was going to end up with 10 packages of brauts and no hamburger meat!  (which happened, by the way!)

So, I went out and inventoried the outside freezer and wrote everything I had down on a small magnetic white board that stays on the freezer.  I also put little tic marks with how may of each things I had.  

Next, I inventoried my kitchen freezer.

I decided that since summer is now here and the kids are officially out of school, I am going to use the inside freezer for their summer lunch snacks and the meat that I am going to use for the week.

I did up my menu plan for the week and went "shopping" in my freezers.

For next week, I pulled out a package of brauts, roast, hamburger for tacos and pork chops.  Everything that did not pertain to the kids or for dinner got switched over to the garage freezer and I updated the white board.

Now I can see what I have and what I'm out of and the only things in my kitchen freezer are the items I need right now.  Talk about a total relief!  Now I don't have to feel completely overwhelmed every time I go to get ice!