I have a basement circuit that powers 5 outlets and 3 ceiling light fixtures with 100 watt equivalent CL light bulbs. The first outlet from the entrance panel has a 15A GFCI installed which protects the other outlets. The problem is that one of the outlets further down the line has a small 7 cu ft freezer plugged in. That freezer needs to be powered all the time to keep meat frozen, and I am getting way too many trips on the GFCI. If I leave home for a few days I never know if the freezer will run until I get back. I posted this problem on another home wiring forum and was told that a basement outlet dedicated just for a freezer or refrig doesn't have to be GFCI protected. If that is true, and I have no reason to believe it isn't, I could run a branch to that one outlet and install a single plug receptacle. Now here is my problem, I don't have another space in my main breaker panel for another breaker, and I can't locate any of the thin type breakers here in town for my GE box. The man at Ace hardware says they don't make them for my GE 200A box, and the man at Home Depot agreed. So, if I ran a branch off a basement ceiling fan connection box that is on a branch circuit that also serves a bedroom on the main floor above it, would that freezer outlet be OK according to NEC even though it wouldn't be on a single outlet branch circuit like it would be if I could run it off the main panel. In other words, I need to know if would it be OK for the freezer to be on the same non-GFCI protected circuit that would also serve the basement ceiling fan and 3 outlets in a main floor bedroom, and the freezer outlet would be the last outlet on the branch.

I know my explanation of the problem is confusing, so if anyone needs more info in order to give an informed answer please post your questions. Thanks in advance.