What Are the First 5 Things You See in Your Refrigerator?

Hey Everyone!

We all know that famous saying, "You Can Tell a Lot About a Person From What's in Their Fridge."

Ok...

So maybe it's not REALLY a famous saying, but... I am going to stand by it!

Let's just assume you really CAN tell a lot about a person by what's in their fridge. And yes, we ARE going to judge each other for it! (Just kidding!)

Trust me, if anyone is going to be harshly judged, it's going to be me. I'm a somewhat terminal single who doesn't really cook, so feel free to throw heaps of condemnation my way!

And, if you dare to share with your fellow forum posters (all are welcome!)...

Walk on over and open the door to the great abyss, known in days of yore as the handy dandy icebox.

Now that you've braved peeking into your fridge, what are the first 5 things you see?

*Seoulsearch cautiously takes a peek.*

I have:

1. almond milk
2. eggs
3. pitches of water (I like my water cold!)
4. leftover mac'n'cheese (KRAFT, of course!)
5. homemade container of vegetarian enchilada filling a fellow CC'er taught me to make

What about you?

Polite but playful bantering is encouraged!

A jar of sauteed onions in oil.
More than 10 dozen eggs.
A jar of chipotle mustard.
A jar of homemade grape jelly.
Challenge butter, much better than Walmart brand and much cheaper than kerrygold.
Two half gallon jars of milk I got from a local farm.
Havarti cheese, white cheddar, goat Brie...
Sun dried tomato hummus.

Something in me is REALLY wanting to judge you for having OVER 10 DOZEN EGGS in your refrigerator.

1. Do you live near a chicken farm???
2. How many people are helping you eat all of these before they go bad??
3. What do you make with them to keep yourself from getting bored or sick of eggs?
4. Does the Easter Bunny go on strike when he gets to your house? (How can he possibly hide all those eggs by himself?!)

You never know when your friend's chickens will go on strike. It will happen at some point during the year.

Real eggs can last for months in the fridge. And I eat six at a time when I eat eggs for breakfast. I don't eat eggs for breakfast everyday, but I do eat them multiple times per week.

IKR??? .

Something in me wants to judge y'all for NOT having more than 10 dozen eggs in your fridge. What do you do when your neighbor with chickens stops getting eggs?

food, drink, light, dirt & space!

Breads, Water, Eggs, cokes, condiments...

So I'm not the only one...

I keep most of my bread in the freezer. One loaf is in the fridge.

I've never heard of anybody else keeping bread in the fridge though, so I thought I was the only one.

- fresh watermelon

- overnight oatmeal...I always have overnight oatmeal ready for breakfast and I rarely go a day without eating oatmeal. I just don't like the traditional bowl of warm oatmeal.

- dill relish...I use a lot of dill relish

- Sweetwater Creek State Park Blueberry Butterfly Butter

- non-fat plain Greek yogurt...I always put some in my overnight oatmeal

More than 10 dozen eggs? Seems like a winner here!

Wot is this "neighbor with chickens" of which you speak?!

I've always wanted to support local farming/homegrown food, but for myself, have found it impractical/nearly impossible to do so.

I usually live in very suburban areas where people are not allowed to farm or have livestock. In one area I was in, there was a fantastic flea market/farmer's market but it was about a 45-minute drive, so I rarely went.

In my current situation, the farmer's market is held downtown, again, about a 30-minute drive, with paid metered parking several blocks away. So much for a leisurely day of shopping. The paid parking lot is often crowded -- sometimes you can't find a spot -- the fee for parking is high so you have to guess-timate how much time you'll need to feed into the meter to try to save a few bucks, and the market spot is a good 20-minute walk each way.

This past week I finally stopped at a little farm house on the back roads to a Walmart I visit about once a month -- also about a 30-minute drive. However, I was dismayed when I opened the cute old-fashioned fridge that contained the eggs.

Inside was a sign that said: "EGGS ARE $7 A DOZEN, NOT!!! $5. THE MONEY IS GOING TO A CHILD'S PIGGY BANK!!! DO NOT STEAL FROM HIM!!!"

As much as I want to support a small farm, for a few dollars more, I can get 3 dozen eggs at the store.

And, as sorry as I am that this family has been stolen from, I was thrown off by automatically being talked to/assumed to be a potential thief right off the bat.

And so, off to the big-box commercial store I went.

Seeing as Karlon has shared with us that he's a landscaper, I wonder if the dirt is there to grow something!

well right now the fridge is pretty bare but there's:

Tea
Water
leftover cheese spread
strawberries
bratwurst

other things that I'd have to go look at to enumerate

And...

Leftover burgers, if we're lucky?!

P.S. If you haven't had a Rodney burger, you're missing out on true culinary perfection.

Even leftover, they are superb!

I keep my bread products in the fridge/freezer as well, since I'm supposed to limit carbs. I still have some slices of sourdough bread from something like last October in the freezer.

Otherwise, it would go back so quickly I'd just have to throw it out, and as Magenta noted, I hate wasting food.

After all, who can afford to let anything go bad with today's prices?

my 1st laugh of the day! really. tis' phunnneee! speaking of dirt, when i get home from work, i have to immediately fill the sink with sudsy water & wash my hands, face & forearms. the water turns black in a hurry!!! unbelievable! i must be wearing a pound of dirt when i get home!!!

Various fruits (apples, papaya, cut watermelon, etc)
Various raw veggies
Eggs
Shredded cheeses
Almond milk and dairy milk
Leftovers (soup, taco beef, etc)
Condiments (salsa, dressings, sauces.. I keep all these in the fridge)

This is actually an easy post for me because it's true usually for every single month lol. All that I have in my fridge is hot sauce and shredded cheese lol. If we count my freezer then there is frozen burrito's. The only other thing that is also there after grocery shopping is sometimes frozen pizza. Though I don't buy those every month. I've been meaning to start buying actual groceries so I can start eating healthy but my funds are limited and this month I didn't feel like spending 2 hours going through the whole store to figure out what would be the cheapest way to buy a bunch of actual food and I ended up just getting the usual.

Unfortunately actual vegetables and meats are way more expensive than processed foods. As much as I hate rice I have been contemplating getting a bunch of that with various meats and veggies but so far I've been too lazy to check prices online to figure out what I can afford for a whole month. Also the thought of having to actually cook my meals sounds almost horrifying. I've never been a good cook and I usually don't even think of food until I'm already hungry. I always hated cooking food when I was younger because it was torturous to smell the food cooking while my stomach was grumbling from hunger.

If I was able to control when I went to sleep and was able to have a normal sleep schedule I could just set a daily alarm to remind me when to start cooking and it wouldn't be such a pain. Unfortunately for me I'm awake an average of roughly 24 hours. Some days I'm awake in the 30 hour range and on rare occasions in the 40's but it's way more tolerable than it was when I was up for 50 hours just some years ago. I shudder to think of ever being that low on sleep again. Having visual and auditory hallucinations form a lack of sleep is just not a fun thing to constantly experience lol.