Help! My freezer failed and now I have all this thawed food!

[eastkygal]

Most of it has been a loss. The zucchini went to water... a lot of the meats I questioned and threw away. I don't know how long it has been this way. It has to have been a few days. I'm refreezing my Ezekiel bread, some wild rabbit, two cornish hens, and some veggies in our landlord's refrigerator. I'm making stock with our frozen bones right now. My problem is I had a lot of frozen fruit. I hate to throw it out. It is so expensive and I can't get a lot of it around here. I was going to use it for Christmas in baked goods, but now it is mostly mushy. I've got pancake flour soaking for in the morning, so I can use the blueberries there. I have two and a half bags of strawberries, a bag of peaches, and a half bag of raspberries. Then, I have 2 bags of wild blackberries off of the bushes that used to grow behind our cabin until the gas company took them out for a road. I'm about to cry. I am crying inside. Is there anyway I can use this fruit today with no flour soaked, and no whole milk yogurt to be bought in the area?

[lil_earthmomma]

Cook the raspberries and blackberries down into a berry compote and refridgerate. Yummy on pancakes, desserts, icecream, yogurt...

sorry about all of the food waste. It makes me want to cry too when that happens!!!

[FairyRae]

I'm so sorry mama!

What about pureeing the fruit and re-freezing in baggies to later be added to smoothies (green smoothies are yummy) and even baked goods as a liquid element?

[mamadelbosque]

Make Jam/jelly! Goto the store and buy a bunch of jelly jars & sugar & some pectin and make jam/jelly - its easy and will let you still eat the stuff thats thawed!!

[griffin2004]

You have my sympathy on the freezer failure. I've had it happen twice. The first time I was plain mad. The second time I cried buckets as I threw all that food away. Gah!

[noobmom]

So sorry! I live in fear of my freezer falling--I have an entire side of beef in there.

Depending on what kind of fruit it was, you might be able to cook it down into a sauce. Jams and jellies are a good idea. You could also do apple or pear butter. Or make some sauce and then dehydrate it into fruit leather. Those would all make good homemade gifts or stocking stuffers.