Theres an up side and down side to those vacum sealers Troble, once you get started it's hard to stop. Looking in the freezer I came across a leg of lamb (bone in) the other day, the date on it was from 2 years ago, it was buried down under, yah almost in Australia. Lambs good for the doggies, no complaints there. It does save you on trips to the store, all you gotta do is open the freezer door. I think it would advantageous to keep a list posted on the freezer and as you go along pulling things out cross them off, but who thinks of that? Keep on truckin my friend, and it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a generator handy in case of long term outages although some insurance policies cover it's best to take the precaution.