What's in your fridge?

[MissMeglet]

Despite foodblogs..let's post whats in our fridge...and guess...from culture to culture...

[divalasvegas]

Despite foodblogs..let's post whats in our fridge...and guess...from culture to culture...

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Hi there MissMeglet. Right now I have fresh fruits and vegetables, yogurt, and unsweetened fruit juices--just trying to start out the year right, ya know. But I also have a baked ham, roast chicken with vegetables and gravy, and homemade mac and cheese to make up for the fruit, vegetables and juices!

Sort of yin/yang as one must always strive for balance in one's life.

[Special K]

Okay . . . let's see. I'm going to take you literally and post the entire contents of my fridge/freezer. There's milk, heavy cream, some kind of fruit juice, usually some buttermilk, and always a bottle of club soda on the top shelf on the right. On the left are all my various and sundry mustards and mayos. Next shelf down is for eggs and leftovers/sack lunches on the right; the cheese bin is on the left - always has cheddar, goat cheese, a big hunk o' Parmesan, and some gorgonzola. Bottom shelf holds all the meats, bacon, sausages, whatever's thawing for dinner. Below that are two more bins; on the right are the veggies, on the left, all my baking bits and bobs (dried cherries, nuts, candied ginger, butter, etc.) I probably should put the meat in that bin, but there are so many little packages and things that I use for baking that it's easier to corral all of that stuff there. The shelves are glass so there's no problem with meat drippage (and anyway I'm scrupulous about keeping things clean and tidy). In the doors are various condiments that don't really need refrigerating. In fact, I realized when we got the new fridge and I was transferring stuff that a good portion of the refrigerator's contents probably don't need to be in there at all. But where else would I put it?

In the big bottom drawer freezer are the martini makings - two glasses, the shaker and a small bottle of Tanqueray (gin) - in their own handy little box which I think is supposed to hold extra ice. There's a pull-out top shelf, which is where the frozen vegetables live. In the big bin, on the right I keep the roasts, chickens, steaks, etc., and on the left are the other frozen stuff, small things, little those tiny little containers of coffee ice cream that I try to forget about so that when I have a craving I can forage and there they are!, and things like turkey pot pie made from the Christmas turkey, usually a big container of spaghetti sauce and another of beef stew. In a little basket thing along the front of the drawer, I keep things like yeast and wheat germ and extra butter and nuts.

O/T, I love my new side-by-side-with-freezer-drawer-on-the-bottom-and-ice-maker-in-the-door-as-opposed-to-taking-up-valuable-freezer-space refrigerator, but I wish I'd noticed how easily dented the front of it is! My 'fridge is tucked back into its own little box, which looks nice and saves floor space in my relatively small kitchen. But this means I can only open the doors straight out, not wide, or they'll hit the walls on either side of the box. (There is no center divide, though, so I can open both doors and fit in big trays and things.) I'm not normally a magnet-on-the-fridge person, but now I have to have a bunch of stuff on it now to cover those dents. Oh, well. There are worse catastrophes!

Edited because gorgonzola IS blue. Doh!

Edited January 8, 2009 by Special K (log)

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[Special K]

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I know. I posted from work (don't tell anybody).

[Libra20]

Olives, blue cheese, mixed greens, avocados, broccoli, eggs, potatoes, sprouted grain bread, spelt tortillas, almonds, butter, tahini, fruit juice, kefir.

[MomOfLittleFoodies]

Beer, soy yogurt, nucoa margarine, butter, dill pickle slices, spanish olives, milk (of the cow and soy varieties), heavy cream, beer, orange juice, sausages, bacon, various lunch meats (ham, turkey, salami), baby carrots, green onions, pepperoni, cheese (medium cheddar, parm and shredded mozzarella), cream cheese, salad dressing, prewashed salad greens, rakkyo, umeboshi, benishoga, mae ploy, barbeque sauce, eggs, mayonnaise, pilsbury crescent rolls, pickle relish, grape jelly, salsa, egg nog, spinach dip, morello cherry preserves, capers, udon noodles, thinly sliced pork and a few other things I don't remember off the top of my head.

We keep regular milk based yogurt (typically yoplait) and our sodas in a mini fridge. I believe we also have apple sauce, iced tea and half a small melon in that fridge.

In the freezer on top of the big fridge, I have frozen hash browns, frozen potato wedges, chicken nuggets, mochi, sausage, a turkey, a partial salmon fillet, egg rolls, pot stickers, lumpia, ground beef (both raw and cooked), edamame, ginger, frozen tomato sauce, various "ice cream" (milk, soy, coconut and rice varieties), a chunk of soy mozzarella, ramen, various kamaboko, various frozen veggies and a small bottle of Bushmills. I know I'm missing stuff here.

I have 4 kids, 2 of which have food allergies, so we typically have some pretty weird stuff hanging around the house.

[Special K]

I know.  I posted from work (don't tell anybody).

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... and I can't believe I left out cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt and cream cheese!

Man, that coffee ice cream was good!