FOOD SAVER

It is just my wife and I, so when we bought food the excess often spoiled before we had the same meal again.   We sometimes froze our excess and usually we ended up throwing it away with freezer-burn.

 A few years ago, I bought a new Food Saver through e-bay for under forty-dollars.   That purchase has turned out to be one of our best buys.  Now we buy food when it is on sale and vacuum pack it, and it last for months.   Things that come in quantity we divide up to portion sizes; sliced bacon, we will divide into four strip units, vacuum pack and freeze them; then when we want bacon and eggs, we just take the vacuum-packed bacon out an hour before we cook, and it is as fresh as when we bought it.

Salmon, pork chops, chuck roast and hot dogs ready for the freezer

 fresh blue berries, quick frozen and then vacuum packed

We even vacuum pack individual sandwich makings, like ham and cheese.   When we want to make a sandwich, we can open the pack, place the makings between two pieces of bread – with of course mayonnaise – and we are good to go. 

  Swiss cheese and Kentucky ham ready for a sandwich 

We buy the rolls of bag material and cut it to size.  A fifty-foot vacuum sealer roll cost around nine-dollars, so there is a small expense; but what we save in wasted food, and the quality of the frozen food, is well worth it.

There are many vacuum food savers, with a lot of different bells and whistles, that are priced upwards to three-hundred-dollars, but this inexpensive one works just fine for a small family.  

the Ol’Buzzard