Do you lose track of what’s in your fridge?

Ronni

Ronni

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We have a tendency to not remember what we have in the fridge, with both leftovers and also things I make just to have on hand, like egg salad, chicken salad, pimento cheese, cooked chicken etc.

I HATE wasting food, and to discover some container of delicious leftovers or the tuna salad I made that Ron loved, or whatever else, but it’s now just a science experiment, really pisses me off! 🤬

So! I designated one specific shelf, and one kind of container, for that kind of stuff. Right now there’s roast chicken, some pimento cheese and chicken salad I made, some hard boiled eggs, and some fried chicken livers (don’t judge! 😂) on that shelf/in those containers! By tonight after dinner there’ll also be a couple leftover servings of chicken carbonara that Ron is rustling around in the kitchen making right now

It’s the only way I’ve found to not lose track of the immediate edibles in the fridge, that will go off soon if they’re not consumed.

Do you have this problem? How do you deal with it?
 

Oh yes. While we usually clean our fridge once a week before garbage day, sometimes we miss things and it’s only when our fridge starts to stink that we notice somethings off.
So short answer; we do the best we can and if we’ve missed something our noses soon pick up on it.

Can so relate to the science experiment. 😂
 

We once had a friend over and stepped out for a moment. When we came back there was no sign of him. We looked and looked and looked. Three months later, we found him in the fridge behind a pile of leftovers, moldy, but happily munching on a sandwich. o_O

Moral of the story...check your fridge from time to time. You never know what you might find.

Tony
 
This one area I am always on top of and super strict about.

Most days leftovers (freshly made) are split up into individual or smaller servings, put into sealable containers and frozen for a rainy day, as for all else, my gears are always turning related to expiry dates, how long food has been stored, etc, and I'll quite often add a little more of this or a little more of that to a recipe to ensure I'm not left with say, a container with a little bit of homemade tomato sauce left in it, especially when I know I have nothing planned in the way of using leftover tomato sauce for.

Another practice I have lived by forever, is I keep most everything I make or made at the very front of the fridge, that way it's the first thing I look at and see when opening the fridge door.

I find keeping meals planned and leftovers down to a dull-roar is the trick, it's when you make, say, a pot of spaghetti one night, then a pot of chow-mien the next, and a traditional old-fashioned meat-and-potatoes meal on the third day, and then on the forth night you go out for dinner rather stay at home and eat, that's when I find things go sideways, because now on the fifth night the spaghetti dinner you made on the first night, is already seeing day 5 in the fridge, and as much as I loathe wasting anything, I refuse to eat anything that's been in the fridge for longer than 2 days.

If food that has sat in the fridge for 2 days is not finished up on the third day, out it goes, however, in admitting such, I will say it's a rarity when we toss something out, and when we do it goes to the ravens.
 
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Living alone with a supermarket 3 minutes drive away ... my fridge is usually nearly empty. :ROFLMAO: No chance of stuff getting lost in there.

However the freezer is nearly full. I batch cook and freeze the left-overs in case of a sudden COVID lockdown. Also keep a well-stocked pantry ... just in case LOL.

My son's family fridge is the total opposite ... :) need to call in specialist services to find anything in there.
 
@Aunt Marg we are on the same wave length when it comes to leftovers and what's in the fridge. I plan a menu at the beginning of each week. I know exactly what I'm going to do with that left over stalk of celery or that 1/4 cup of tomato sauce.
If by any chance I can't come up with anything it gets labeled and put in the freezer.
Sometimes I can't find my glasses when they are sitting on top of my head but I can tell you exactly what's left in my freezer or fridge.
 
I opened an ancient jar of old fashioned peanut butter that was waaay back in the fridge
Ate a big spoon of it

irish me.jpg



It wasn't peanut butter
(I haven't told my lady about it)


Once ate a bowl of old salad I found on the kitchen counter
I love old veggie salad
Dollop of thousand island, it all disappears

My lady came home, thanked me for emptying the compost

.....I'm no longer let in the kitchen
 
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