You look inside your now-clean freezer with joy. However, don't get too carried away with decluttering. A half-empty freezer is worse for the food that it does contain. Keeping your freezer mostly ...

Leftover chicken-feta-pasta salad defrosted from the freezer; a corn tortilla with Muenster cheese ... garlic and the last mushroom in my now nearly empty vegetable bin, adding Asian flavors — sesame ...