A tip

At work we have a fridge for each shift and a freezer that we all share. Our freezer gets pretty packed with food and goes on the fritz quite often. Since we're not at work every day, I'm often wondering if our freezer has warmed up while I was gone and if my food has just refrozen without my knowing it.

Then one day I realized an easy way to tell if this has happened. Here's my tip for you:

Buy some of these individual servings of ice cream from the market. {I suggest buying a few and one in a flavor you don't like}.

Buy a few because, well...they're delicious!

But the one flavor you don't like will be the one you use for your freezer temp indicator.

{So you're not as tempted to eat it} 

Take one ice cream, put it in the freezer resting on it's side.

If you are concerned that your freezer might have warmed up while you were gone {say on vacation}, all you have to do is open your little ice cream and see if it has refrozen. The air pocket would now be on the side of the carton when it is held upright, indicating that the ice cream had thawed and froze again while on it's side.

And if it doesn't look like it had thawed, then go ahead and enjoy your little ice cream cup since it's open!