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Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 8:29 pm Post subject: What's in your fridge?

I am a pretty hopeless housewife, the fridge is sometimes bursting with nice things to eat or more usually, like now, nearly empty. It's got half finished jars of homemade chutneys, bits and pieces of sauces, milk (although we did run out on Sunday

) a large block of nice cheddar courtesy of SUMA, blue cheese and parmesan but not a lot else and it's a big fridge! It would be nice to improve and overcome my dislike of shopping so what do you keep as standard in your fridge? Do you think yum when you open it or oh dear, I must go shopping!

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 8:36 pm Post subject:
It depends when in the week you look, after shopping 10 litres of milk, two pots of cream, a block of cheese, butter and... No, that's it, usually (although we buy cheese and butter in bulk, so it tends to last several weeks). Maybe some yoghurt. And bacon.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19862
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 8:39 pm Post subject:
I forgot to add a packet of Dulce de Membrillo that someone forgot. Must remember to return it to them.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 8:54 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

I forgot to add a packet of Dulce de Membrillo that someone forgot. Must remember to return it to them.

We're working through a block of Sean's Mum's at the moment.

We get local milk delivered so there's usually milk, also cream,yoghurt and butter. Assorted cheese, bacon, jars and bottles of sauces, jams, chutneys etc, not all of which actually need to be refridgerated, but it's somewhere to put them. Meat and veg tends to be bought daily, though there's often left overs awaiting being bubble and squeaked or souped. Wine and often something horribly sweet and fizzy belonging to BW.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4659
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 8:58 pm Post subject:
When it's just me, the fridge is mainly the only place to store piles of vegetables and the odd tub of leftovers or pre-cooked meals. The freezer on the other hand had all kinds of fun stuff...!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:00 pm Post subject:
If you throw some charcuterie in then you've always a meal. Also, make sure there's tonic and bubbles, and a lemon. Gin in the freezer, and even when there's no food you won't care. I think I always have greenery, such as rocket, some olives, cheese, bacon and I've had a tub of green Thai curry paste in there for about five years.

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:07 pm Post subject:
There's usually chorizo as well as all the stuff Jamanda listed.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19862
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:12 pm Post subject:
I overlooked the alcohol. Ruby doesn't think it counts. I would have tonic but I can't get any without artificial sweeteners in locally. It's disgusting and spoils the gin. The alcohol is currently being used to numb the pain. The freezer is a different matter. I just have to remember to take things out in good time.

Spider

Joined: 17 Apr 2013
Posts: 129
Location: Rhondda Valleys....Welshland

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:12 pm Post subject:
Nothing exciting here. Skimmed milk, diet lemonade, bottled water for work, eggs, Dairylea cheese spread, cooked ham, chicken, sugarfree jelly, salad veg, jiffy lemon and an eyeliner pencil

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:23 pm Post subject:
What about the pot of bicarb to keep the smells at bay

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:23 pm Post subject:
Nothing here, we don't use a fridge.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:26 pm Post subject:
And black pudding if you're lucky. Occasionally a couple bottles of beer. Although we do have a second fridge, which has a cow & five sheep in right now.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:36 pm Post subject:
My beer fridge tends to have experiments in it. And no beer.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 9:53 pm Post subject:
Coffee!

MornieG

Joined: 17 Jan 2013
Posts: 933
Location: Bromham, Wiltshire

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 11:01 pm Post subject:

Basics consist of eggs, various cheeses, milk, butter, mayonnaise, tomatoes, capsicums, mushrooms, cucumber, bacon, yoghurt / creme frais, tomato puree, fruit juice, tonic, bottle of lemon juice.

Extras at the moment, almost empty bottle of maple syrup, half a jar of apple sauce, a whole bar of chocolate only because I keep forgetting it's in there, out of date filo pastry, out of date mushroom pate, very out of date beetroot, two skanky carrots, manky celery, half a jar of chocolate spread, half a dried up lemon and half a jar of mint sauce.

Out of that I would make an omlette and Pete would make a curry

Mo.XX

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