Whats in your fridge? Turning mine off

WantToBeSE

Justamum wrote: »

We're vegans and couldn't do without our fridge! We keep the soya spread, opened soya milk, vegan yogurts, sandwich fillings, salad, mushrooms, etc, in it. It's constantly full.

Same here!
At the moment i have lots of fruit and veggies, some pataks curry pastes, DF spread, tofu pieces, wine, dark chocolate, cold rice, almond milk, and a whole host of other things in mine.

Couldnt live without it!

Edwardia

A fridge, and a really cold one at that, is essential for us. Abel & Cole delivers 4 x 2L of organic whole milk once a week and it has to last. As an ex-chef, I'd never defrost anything like chicken, seafood or cream at room temperature. Bacteria split in half every 20 mins !

In my fridge (under counter) after Iceland 1700 and Ocado 1900 deliveries there will be

Organic whole milk
Organic natural live yogurt
Organic kefir
Organic creme fraiche
Organic unsalted butter
Lard
Dripping
Duck fat
Branston
Jalapeno peppers
Kosher dill pickles
Pickled onions
Organic mayonnaise
Organic horseradish sauce
Gluten free English mustard
Organic pesto
Gluten free tamari
Organic tomato paste
Tabasco
Organic Mozzarella
Organic mature Cheddar
Organic mature Cheddar grated by OH
Net of Babybels
Quark
Organic cottage cheese
Evian
Badoit
Prosciutto
Inverawe smoked salmon pate that needs using up
Organic smoked tofu
Organic salad onions
Organic radishes
Organic wild rocket and watercress bag
Organic spinach bag
Half an organic fennel bulb
Half an organic kohl rabi
Half an organic celeriac
Organic beetroot
Organic green beans
Organic bell peppers
Organic romano peppers
Organic carrots
Organic raspberries
Organic strawberries
Organic blueberries
Bicarbonate of soda
35mm films
Organic self-tanning lotion
Daylesford organic chicken thighs for dinner

I don't keep tomatoes, aubergines, grapes, apples, pears, bananas or unused large root veg in fridge. Eggs only appear in the fridge in high summer if kitchen gets hot

Fluff15

My fridge is pretty pathetic really - I've got:

Butter
Mayo
Milk
Cauliflower
Potatoes (they keep for longer in the fridge and there's only me)
Sweet potatoes
One beer
Some baileys
A mouldy old bit of cheddar I've got to throw away
Half an onion
Kale
A shepherds pie ready meal for my Dad

I've got in the fridge at work:

Smoked salmon
Spinach
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Avocado

And that's it! My meat gets instantly frozen and I'm having a can of tuna tonight so no need to defrost any in the fridge today.

FairyPrincessk

Technically I could turn my fridge off if I were willing to shop more frequently and buy smaller quantities and cook more frequently and in smaller quantities, but in our case it would cost us more to live without the fridge than it does to pay the electricity to run it. It would also mean we would eat meat and fish even less frequently. At the moment we have each once/week, but we could not afford them that often if I were buying them full price and unfrozen.

This would probably also increase our fuel costs for cooking. I eat the leftovers from tea the night before for lunch. While many things would keep overnight without the fridge I wouldn't want to store things like rice, jacket spuds etc. that way. Some things are kept for multiple days as well to do a second lunch.

We pay less for things like milk by buying them in larger quantities and I also use the fridge for defrosting as the fish and what meat we do buy is usually either yellow sticker, or in the case of the fish, frozen. I couldn't afford to buy meat full price each week and as YS items in our area usually skew towards the pork pie variety and less towards the fresh meat I find it easier to stock up when I do find something we'll eat on YS. Fresh fish is also out of our budget so buying frozen fillets and steaks allows us to eat better. The fruits and nuts I forage and the vegetables I grow are also frozen and since our freezer is part of the fridge I cant have one and not the other.

Most of the veg and condiments we have could be stored outside the fridge, although most wouldn't last as long and I think we'd waste more. I don't have the garden space to grow enough salad items for us, but it is difficult to buy half of a lettuce or 1/2 bag of spinach.

DigForVictory

My cousin does OK without a fridge (not that that stops us worrying about him!) but he has a stream with "bottle pit" dug & lined near the back door. It accomodates a bottle of milk in cold running water which moves fast enough not to freeze solid.
He can chill a can in minutes with wet newspaper & a breeze - always popular at family parties & taught me how to cool a bottle whilst in the classroom on study breaks. (Wash socks at lunchtime, put cold wet socks over bottle & leave to evaporate dry & cool in sink. Return to room after class & lo, almost dry socks & lovely cold bottle.)

Mr_Singleton

rdone wrote: »

We have soya butter

Cough..... don't you mean soya "spread"?

Goldiegirl

maman wrote: »

For me I'm happy to take my pick from the best (IMO) of old and new style. Although you do seem to pull your weight, I wouldn't want to go back to the old ways where women spent almost all their waking hours keeping house. I'm all for money saving but time saving is important to me too. I'd rather work and earn money to pay for my meat rather than spend my time butchering a rabbit. That's my choice.


I said you sound a bit like a troll because IMO your views are a bit extreme but if you choose to live that way then that's your choice.

I've got to agree here.

What with the free Metro newspapers being used for loo roll and the £5 a week food budget the whole concept seems too extreme to be true.

When I was reading the Op's other thread, I was wondering about whether he was doing all this through financial need. But obviously not if he's got two jobs.

It's entirely up to the Op how he lives his life, but I think we've gone beyond money saving, to something else entirely.

SailorSam

How did people once live without a fridge and freezer ?
I've got two and they're both full. Except for fruit i could
go for months without having to go shopping.

PasturesNew

I bought a fridge/freezer - online so hadn't actually seen it. Once it arrived I realised I'd bought badly.... the fridge was way too big and the freezer too small.

In my fridge I've got all my empty plasticware/storage boxes on one shelf. Next shelf has 6 bottles of squash (enough for the rest of the year).

Then the food shelf has a 500g tub of marg, 2 out of date crab sticks, 1/2 a 250g tub of tomatoes and 1Kg of cheddar.

Inside the door I keep ketchup, brown sauce, salad cream and mayo - and my plastic picnic beakers.

melanzana

No, I am sorry, but the effort in trying to keep things fresh and safe outside the fridge would outweigh getting rid of it.

In the good ole days people bought fresh every day and cooked it that day. Milk was put in a basin of cold water overnight.

That is not the case now generally is it?

So no. I like my fridge and my freezer and will be keeping both. Extra storage space with no food safety worries!!

And to OP, why store yeast in the fridge? Surely dried would be just as good!

I think you are winding us up.