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I keep a lot of frozen meat that does well in the crockpot or Instant Pot. So bags of frozen boneless skinless chicken thighs, ground beef, oxtails, brisket, chuck roast, pork butt, and recently I found a killer deal on a bone-in ham so I grabbed it. I also always have breakfast sausage patties, link sausages, hot dogs, corn dogs, meatballs, deli meat, fish, and chicken nuggets. We also keep lots of frozen veggies (corn, peas, peas and corn, baby lima beans, green beans, broccoli, and spinach) to throw into everything. I also usually keep some frozen waffles/mini pancakes around. And bread. We always have some kind of bread or bun or something in the freezer.

@Mama Bird: cranberries are my favorite!!

Ravioli, cooked taco meat, cooked pulled pork, meatballs, lunchmeat, bread, cheese, berries, peas, broccoli, soup, pancakes...winter is our tight budget season so we fill our big freezer in the fall and it helps keep our grocery budget lean.

@looch: I didn't know you could freeze cheese. Is it only certain types?

@MrsSRS: and you can freeze lunch meat? Like cold cuts? Is there anything special you need to do to it?

@Pumpkin Pie: No, I just toss packages of lunchmeat and cheese in the freezer. They thaw just fine. If I was buying fresh sliced from the deli I would use a freezer ziploc.

Meat - we like to stock our freezer full so I can just throw stuff in the crockpot and I freeze veggies as well. Anytime there is a good sales I'll stock up (there was recently an amazing deal on pork tenderloins and turkey breast so I bought 5 each to keep in the deep freeze.) It really helps cut down our weekly grocery bills come holiday time when more money goes to gifts/traveling/parties. I do always keep an extra loaf of bread and shredded cheese in the freezer too.