[Dancemom]

All your hints are wonderful. I especially like the ones about rice. I honestly did not know you could freeze it.

Here's one of my hints:
I make Vegetable Soup whenever it's cold enough to eat it. So, I have a very large freezer carton labeled "Soup Mix". Whenever I have left over veggies, I put them in the carton. When that one is full I start another. Sometimes, all I have to add to make soup is meat. Sometimes, I even add boiled, baked, or broiled meat to the mix. Since my family doesn't like leftovers, but enjoys soup and I cannot stand to throw things out, I came up with this solution.