Fridge always too full

fresco · June 25, 2003

We have a fridge of generous proportions, but it always seems to be crammed. Granted, some of it is unnecessary (certain people cannot be convinced that not all condiments need a cool environment) but it does seem to be chronic.

Is this just a natural consequence of a life that revolves around food?

Fat Guy · June 25, 2003

That's the typical scenario in my house. Combine that with the fact that we're constantly inundated (and I mean that in a good way) with product samples, and you can just forget about it.

alanz · June 25, 2003

With the way my bride packs the refrigerator and freezers, I feel like I take my life in my hands whenever I open the doors.

I'm always prepared to jump back as something cold falls to my feet < s >

Fat Guy · June 25, 2003

One issue for us is that we like to have the ability to choose what we eat -- not a week in advance, but on the spot. This requires that there be enough stuff in the fridge at any given time to allow for a range of options, and waste is an inevitable result of that arrangement. In addition, we have a really unpredictable dining-out schedule. We might dine at home every meal for a week, or we might dine out ten times during a week. We might go to a restaurant to work on a story and get roped into dinner, we get a lot of last-minute invitations from well-to-do friends who subsidize our culinary education, I get calls to do stories and reviews on short notice, etc. In some weeks we waste as much as we eat. Yes I feel bad about that.

Having a dog has helped somewhat, but he just doesn't eat the quantity of food that we waste (which is impressive, given that he can eat quite a bit) and he's not eligible for certain products (nothing spicy, etc.).

nerissa · June 25, 2003

We have a fridge of generous proportions, but it always seems to be crammed. Granted, some of it is unnecessary (certain people cannot be convinced that not all condiments need a cool environment) but it does seem to be chronic.
Is this just a natural consequence of a life that revolves around food?

Is it a matter of organization or menu planning? Have very similar problem --I made strict designations what goes where--eggs, herbs, cheese, chili peppers, etc go on 2nd shelf. I suppose it revolves around how your frig is designed. We had the oldest one possible until it broke. Our landlord could not have cared less. We took it upon ourselves to purchase a used frig... ahh, heaven. Anyway, if it is a matter of locating that roquefort you know you purchased the other day, how about using a small fruit box (like the ones clementines come in ) and designating that at the cheese box.

I guess it helps that we do our main shopping on Sundays and then supplement the rest of the week if we are not going out all weekend.

I guess it might just be a natural consequence. I always wondered why my friends' frigs seemed so damned manageable.

fresco · June 25, 2003

Our cat is no damn good as a disposal unit--hardwired to cat food. But we debate endlessly about getting another bull mastiff. Our first two were insatiable, but posed, as you might expect, their own disposal problems...

hjshorter · June 25, 2003

We have a 27 sq ft fridge/freezer, and a full sized upright freezer in the basement for two adults and two toddlers. Both are jam-packed. It's a combo of poor organization and condiment obsession.

EJRothman · June 25, 2003

We have a 27 sq ft fridge/freezer, and a full sized upright freezer in the basement for two adults and two toddlers. Both are jam-packed. It's a combo of poor organization and condiment obsession.

I've heard it's a bad idea to put toddlers in the freezer. :raz:

*Sorry, couldn't resist.

hjshorter · June 25, 2003

You haven't met my kids. :shock:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

elyse · June 25, 2003

We have a 27 sq ft fridge/freezer, and a full sized upright freezer in the basement for two adults and two toddlers. Both are jam-packed. It's a combo of poor organization and condiment obsession.
I've heard it's a bad idea to put toddlers in the freezer.

:laugh:

NeroW · June 25, 2003

My refrigerator is an abomination.

I need a new one, but my landlords are AWOL.

nerissa · June 25, 2003

My refrigerator is an abomination.
I need a new one, but my landlords are AWOL.

Welcome to the club. We didn't have a working frig 4 days, had to take it upon ourselves to buy one.... By law, you are supposed to have a frig. I hate shitty landlords.

NeroW · June 25, 2003

My refrigerator is an abomination.
I need a new one, but my landlords are AWOL.
Welcome to the club. We didn't have a working frig 4 days, had to take it upon ourselves to buy one.... By law, you are supposed to have a frig. I hate shitty landlords.

I also thought it was a law to have a working fridge.

Ours is most definitely on its last . . . legs?

So is our roof, gutters, doors, driveway, etc.

Are you expecting/asking your landlord to reimburse you for your expense?

nerissa · June 25, 2003

My refrigerator is an abomination.
I need a new one, but my landlords are AWOL.
Welcome to the club. We didn't have a working frig 4 days, had to take it upon ourselves to buy one.... By law, you are supposed to have a frig. I hate shitty landlords.
I also thought it was a law to have a working fridge.
Ours is most definitely on its last . . . legs?
So is our roof, gutters, doors, driveway, etc.
Are you expecting/asking your landlord to reimburse you for your expense?

Nero, I have the pdf at home, but online you can find a Tenant's right thing.. with the landlord and tenant's obligations/rights. I can email it to you later, if you are interested.

Um, we are hoping our landlord is too lazy to care that we deducted the $200 from our rent. This is the same landlord who let us go 1 week without a working toilet, when I had a job interview one day. Thank god we live a stone's throw away from the Univ. And to think that all our grad student friends drool everytime they come into our apt. I suppose it is all relative.

NeroW · June 25, 2003

Um, we are hoping our landlord is too lazy to care that we deducted the $200 from our rent. This is the same landlord who let us go 1 week without a working toilet, when I had a job interview one day.

Escrow? :laugh:

Your landlord sounds like a jackass. If our toilet broke, my landlord would come in, start crying and waving her hands around, and we'd feel so guilty that we'd just piss in the catbox.

Sorry to hijack this thread. Will now stop.

KateW · June 25, 2003

Um, we are hoping our landlord is too lazy to care that we deducted the $200 from our rent. This is the same landlord who let us go 1 week without a working toilet, when I had a job interview one day.
Escrow?
Your landlord sounds like a jackass. If our toilet broke, my landlord would come in, start crying and waving her hands around, and we'd feel so guilty that we'd just piss in the catbox.
Sorry to hijack this thread. Will now stop.

*spills soup all over keyboard*

Thank you, I haven't laughed like that since I was a little girl.

elyse · June 25, 2003

My refrigerator is an abomination.
I need a new one, but my landlords are AWOL.
Welcome to the club. We didn't have a working frig 4 days, had to take it upon ourselves to buy one.... By law, you are supposed to have a frig. I hate shitty landlords.

You should be able to deduct it from your rent if they haven't done anything about it.

maggiethecat · June 25, 2003

If our toilet broke, my landlord would come in, start crying and waving her hands around, and we'd feel so guilty that we'd just piss in the catbox.
Sorry to hijack this thread. Will now stop.

Fortunately, I was not eating, drinking or smoking when I read this...and had just emptied my bladder. Nero, I miss you, Babe.

(For those of you unfortunate enough not to have met Nero: It's even funnier if you do know her. Because it's what she'd do!)

On Topic: When the fridge gets bad---and it does, because we're daily, not weekly shoppers---we will exert iron discipline. We have to cook everything we see there before we buy New Food. Leads to some very creative meal-planning.

Lyle · June 25, 2003

This time of year is the worst. My fridge is full of tomatoes (green and ripe), squash and zucchini from the admittedly too-large garden. Freezer full of purple hull peas. We really can't give enough away. And this year the tomatoes are too acidic for anything but fresh (delicious and juicy this yr) or sauteed to work well; no reduced sauces for freezing. The upshot of this is every spring we are abruptly forced to vaccum out most of the previous year's booty. I have promised three years running I wouldn't horde like that in the fall and winter so I woulden't feel this deep, depressing guilt. The trend says to put your money on the refridgerator winning again this year.

fresco · June 25, 2003

Why do we find it so difficult to just turf food we'll never eat? Is it the early childhood exhortations about starving children? My wife, fortunately, is made of sterner stuff.

SobaAddict70 · June 25, 2003

Well, you see, with me, its the opposite that's true. I routinely clean out my refrig, or at least those things that are mine. My roommate is sooooooooo forgetful that he'll leave empty boxes of stuff in the freezer (threw out an empty box of popsicles last night), not to mention packaged pineapple chunks from three months ago. Not only that, but if the refrig begins to stink, he won't wonder why, because he WON'T notice!!!

I am seriously thinking of moving out. The only reason why I haven't done so yet is because the apartment is a nice-sized apartment in a really nice neighborhood in Manhattan, at a way-too-good to be true-affordable price.

There have been times when the refrig is full of food. Not many, mind you, but some. The irony is that it can get cleaned out in as little as three or four days.

Soba

NeroW · June 25, 2003

(For those of you unfortunate enough not to have met Nero: It's even funnier if you do know her. Because it's what she'd do!)

What?

I strike you as the type of person who'd piss in a catbox?

The funny thing is, my roommate . . . ach, never mind.

Suzanne F · June 26, 2003

I think the condiments eat the leftovers in my fridge, so they can grow big and strong and TAKE OVER ALL THE SPACE!!!!!!!!

Except for the jar of salsa rojo, which grew its own. So now it's going to take over the garbage can. :shock:

edited to remove egregious spelling error.

Edited June 26, 2003 by Suzanne F (log)

maggiethecat · June 26, 2003

(For those of you unfortunate enough not to have met Nero: It's even funnier if you do know her. Because it's what she'd do!)

What?
I strike you as the type of person who'd piss in a catbox?
The funny thing is, my roommate . . . ach, never mind.

My point: You'd do this because you're a Nice Person.

Carry on.

elyse · June 26, 2003

This time of year is the worst. My fridge is full of tomatoes (green and ripe), squash and zucchini from the admittedly too-large garden. Freezer full of purple hull peas. We really can't give enough away. And this year the tomatoes are too acidic for anything but fresh (delicious and juicy this yr) or sauteed to work well; no reduced sauces for freezing. The upshot of this is every spring we are abruptly forced to vaccum out most of the previous year's booty. I have promised three years running I wouldn't horde like that in the fall and winter so I woulden't feel this deep, depressing guilt. The trend says to put your money on the refridgerator winning again this year.

Why don't you put your extra vegetables etc in front of your house with a sign?

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