Elizabeth and I are efficient with our food. We plan the week's meals, and we strategically plan meals that will provide leftovers that can easily be taken to work the next day. A few weeks back, we made a potato & vegetable stew. We made a lot of it, and it was more than what the two of us could finish off in a couple of days. So, we took half of the stew and froze it. The smart way to freeze something like stew is to line your storage container with aluminum foil before adding the stew. Then, after it's been in your freezer for a day, pop out the foil-wrapped stew and wash your storage container. Now you can use that container for other things in the intervening time.
So that's what we did.
Now this week, stew is one of the meals on the agenda. It's great, because all we have to do is pull the frozen block of stew out of the foil, put it back into a storage container, and let it thaw in the fridge overnight. Tomorrow's meal takes no work at all except to re-heat the stew in the microwave.
But there was a problem.
Somehow a good chunk of the foil fused itself to the stew while in the freezer. I think it had to do with some stew leaking between the container and the foil when it was originally frozen, and now there are places with a thin layer of frozen stew on the outside of the foil.
Anyway, we just spent the last 20 minutes using a butter knife to chisel away at the frozen block of stew trying to make sure we got every last piece of foil removed (it's not fun to eat foil). Obviously, what we should have done was let the stew thaw in a storage container in the fridge with the foil still on. Then, when it was liquid again, we could just pull the foil out in one piece.
Chiseling aluminum foil off of tomorrow's lunch. Now how I pictured it.
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