Is your fridge empty or full?

onomatopoeia99

My fridge is about 1/4 full, as I went to Tesco on the way home from work so stocked up on perishables (veg, dairy). I almost never throw food out and meat is portioned and frozen on purchase unless I'm using it in the next couple of days.

I put eggs in the fridge, it reduces the rate at which they dessicate.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Empty except for half a bag of spuds - there's no room anywhere else and they keep far longer without sprouting in there - and some milk.

It's well stocked today.

enthusiasticsaver

Mine is about half full as just me and OH at home now and I went shopping today.


I have some chicken breasts for Wednesday and Thursdays evening meal
Leftover spaghetti Bolognese from today which we will use up tomorrow
some sliced ham and chicken for packed lunches this week
tub of hummus and tub of couscous
bacon slices
Milk, olive spread and 6 flavoured yogurts,1 large natural yogurt tub
Goats cheese and edam cheese
12 eggs - I get them out a few hours before using them but store them in the fridge
lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and red pepper
some carrots and a head of broccoli
apples, punnet of black seedless grapes
orange juice
The usual assortment of jam, marmalade, mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, pickled onions, mint jelly, apple sauce and salad cream


I very rarely need to throw food away and plan meals around what is in the fridge. I tend to get meat, fish etc out of the freezer 2 days before I need it - ie the chicken breasts came out tonight. Over the years I got used to cooking for 4 and use the 500g size of meat trays usually which does us for 2 days and saves me cooking on days I am working.

Deep_In_Debt

My freezer is fairly well stocked and usually is. Need to start eating stuff from the freezer as space is now limited and I will do more batch cooking at the weekend so need some space for the extra.

I have milk, juice, fruit, butter, cheese, yogurts, veg and some meat in my fridge. It's only me here so that will last me for the week.

kingfisherblue

Our fridge is quite large (American style fridge freezer). We rarely waste food, even though it is usually quite full.

Without checking what else is in there, we have:

Two filter jugs with fresh water in each
Semi-skimmed milk
Margarine (butter is kept in butter dish on top of bread bin)
Cheese
Yoghurts
Cold sliced meats (ham, chicken, pork)
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Beetroot
Potatoes (variety of bakers, salad, and Roosters)
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Carrots
Onions (red and white)
Mayonnaise
Salad cream
Baby bels
Chocolate
Chocolate biscuits
Oranges
Grapes (red and white - always seedless)
Fresh orange juice
Bacon
Sausages (yuk!)
Mushrooms
Eggs
Apples
Mint sauce
Chutney
Piccalilli (locally made - tastes gorgeous!)

Just been for a peek, and I missed

French dressing
Sweet peppers
Pears
Spinach
Sprouts

It's pretty crowded in there!

PasturesNew

I don't keep my eggs in the fridge. I buy packs of 15 so have to have them out on the worktop so I don't forget to use them.

I don't put spuds in the fridge; never seen any benefit in doing so.... maybe for the next bag I should split the bag and do half/half, see which ones last best/longest.

pol-zeath

I keep eggs in the fridge but will take them out to get to room temperature in the morning if I am baking later in the day. It would never occur to me to put bananas in the fridge or any fruit unless soft fruits.

Anatidaephobia

Our fridge is usually nearer empty than full. After shopping, it looks full, but you could easily rearrange it all and free up a lot of space.

We have a fridge freezer; the freezer is bigger than the fridge (when shopping for it, it seemed a lot of them had a big fridge and a tiny freezer; we purposefully bought the one we found that had a larger freezer) and the freezer is always full.

I don't put tomato sauce/ketchup or chocolate in fridge. Eggs go in though, right at the back.

balletshoes

Pollycat wrote: »

I've never thought of keeping chocolate in the fridge. :huh:

chocolate is soooo good straight out of the fridge :T.

In Summer I have my favourite nail polishes in there too.

My fridge is usually about half full, cheese, spreads, opened mayo, milk, yoghurts, fruit and salad veg, any deli stuff, and water/soft drinks.

My daughter has a habit of opening the packaging of ie multipacks of yoghurts, removing each item to eat one by one, and then leaving the packaging in there, but apart from that we're all pretty good at not opening stuff when there's already one open etc.

I don't keep eggs or potatoes in the fridge, eggs at room temp and potatoes in a cool dark cupboard.

Georgiegirl256

balletshoes wrote: »

In Summer I have my favourite nail polishes in there too.
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I keep camera films in there! Something I've grown up with as my Dad always kept all his in the fridge too.