So what's in YOUR fridge?

Lots if bottles and jars amongst the Ellas which are the GCs fav things to raid and all the other usual bits and pieces. I open said jars but forget to note when so am in constant danger of being poisoned I suspect.

I really wish we had a proper pantry. We always had one when I was a child and in one house it was outside so poor mum had to go out to get what she wanted whatever the weather!

Not a lot - seriously - !!!

Well - we've been away for a week, leaving youngest and partner here. I cleaned the fridge out and found - all the cheese, salad, cold meat, humous we'd left still in there. The young folks had added more of the same. The vegetable draw was still full of the veg we'd left, and yes, they'd bought more. 2 half empty bottles of white wine, one half empty non alcohol wine, half empty bottle of elderflower cordial. Two milk bottles, with tiny amounts of milk left in them.
I wish we had a cold cupboard where I could store vegetables, rather than putting them in the fridge.
I look forward to the young folks moving into their own place in the not too distant future. I shan't care about the state of their fridge..

Mine is an under the counter fridge and doesn't have much in it today. Milk, mayo, several different salad dressings, couple of cans soft drinks that came free with the Sunday paper, various yoghurts, real butter, various cheeses, jams, chimneys, salami, ham, bacon, butcher sausages, salad leaves, strawberries, grapes. Running fridge down as we go on hols in three days. Other fruits are on the worktop.

I also have a cold room with chest freezer and it shares space with the man shed in a place called the garage. In the garage is also our old kitchen which has been fitted to the walls and stocks imperishables like tea bags, coffee, dried pasta,tins, dry rice, biscuits, crisps. Potatoes are stored in a dark cupboard beside the laundry room aka the garage corner where the ironing board lives.

I was tired of throwing out half used jars of tartare sauce and last week ordered Heinz tartare sauce sachets off the internet. Today I found an unopened jar in the garage store.... use before November 2010 !!

'The coldest dustbin in the house' is a very apt description of my fridge as our fortnightly bin day looms, purpledaffodil!

I'd rather keep things which might go smelly refrigerated until then.

Mine is very boring I'm afraid.

Skimmed milk, eggs, long life cream, Parma ham ( from Aldi), Lurpak butter, left over lasagne, tomatoes,cucumber, cheddar cheese, baby bells, laughing cows, Greek yogurts with honey and fresh orange juice.

When I read some of the other lists I feel quite embarrassed.

Whole, semi skimmed and skimmed milk. Butter, cheddar, mozzarella and feta cheeses and some homemade yoghurt. Three courgettes, fresh mint and cucumbers from the allotment. One bottle of beer, some leftover pastry and two bottles of champagne (our summer lodger turned out to be the daughter of a champagne producer and sent us half a case after she returned home ). Apple crumble, custard and lasagne left over from tonight's dinner. Tomato puree, wholegrain mustard and an assortment of salad dressings and mayonnaise. Oh yes, and some mushrooms and tomatoes.

Just off to clean mine out. This thread has pricked my conscience
Must admit I don't like the look of those glass shelves when they need a wash though. Managed to leave the freezer door open on Monday night and have several defrosted things waiting to be cooked in the fridge too.
Once read fridge described as "the coldest dustbin in the house" and must confess it is often full of things I don't want to throw away just yet.

You might not fancy the dog food!

Indoor fridge

A constant supply of salads for DBH, he has his main meal at lunchtime and has cold meats and various salads later. So always hams, chorizo, sometimes I make pies or goats cheese tarts, various types of sausage. Olives, usually 4 types of cheese, butter, skimmed and semi-skimmed milk, cream, greek and low calorie plain yoghourts, eggs, bread, lemon juice, elderberry cordial, orange juice, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, various lettuces, mixed veg couscous, coleslaw, potato salad, too many oriental ingredients to mention in detail (such as minced galingale) sundried tomatoes, various mustards and horseradishes, pesto sauce, redcurrant jelly and mint jelly (these are all home-made) some weird little things called cucamelons that I grew this year (don't bother) also things like pickled nasturtium seeds which are a good caper substitute, and pickled baby gherkins, so that I can make tartare sauce.

Right ! So now I have a little list of people to drop in on when I am feeling peckish!

Very little. I have an under-worktop fridge. In the door is milk, pesto, butter, suet, a bottle of lemon juice and bottles of red and white wine and sherry I use in cooking.

In the body of the fridge; cheese, coleslaw, beetroot, squirty cream and cold ham. There are salad veg in the salad drawer.

Tomatoes and eggs live on the worktop, fruit and veg are in a veg rack in a cold corner. Most other pickles, sauces jams etc live in a kitchen cupboard as they have always done. Vinegar and sugar are preservatives, that's why fruit and veg were combined with either of them in the past, so that they would last out many years in a store cupboard.

Bottle of white wine, several cans of Guinness for DH and several bottles of Stella
Milk, fruit juice, butter, creme fraiche, goats cheese, eggs, tub of Lidl's potatoe salad (yummy), packet of sliced ham and salami and a couple of chicken breasts to to cooked tonight.
In the veggie drawer pototoes, carrots, broccoli, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes and a couple of bags of mixed salad
Assorted pickles and chutneys, mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise in the door.

I keep bread and fresh meats in the freezer along with oven chips, petits pois and most importantly icecream

feetle yes, I do! I'm not super tidy nor OCD with cleaning, but I can't stand an icky fridge.

My fridge gets cleaned out whenever darling daughter is coming. She goes ape if anything is 5mins past its best before date

Blimey - you clean out your fridge every week?

By the time I throw something out I'll have been meaning to throw it for few days - like the bowl of left-over dhal that I made a week ago... that went out yesterday.

It's amazing what can be found at the back, nestling behind other things though, isn't it?

My fridge needs a clean out! I do one on Tuesdays when it is bin day. So, anyway, here goes:

Bottle of white wine (like it chilled but it will be there for weeks and weeks before it is drunk).
Slab of chocolate (husband likes it rock hard hence kept in the fridge door; I don't which suits me so I don't eat it).
The usual milk, butter, cheese etc.
Fresh pasta ready for the spag bol later this week.
Packet of salad leaves (past its date but with a piece of kitchen towel slipped in on either side of the leaves - which according to Rachel Johnson no less - keeps them fresher longer).
Salad dressing, piccalilli
Cold meat platter thingy from Lidl - unopened.
Shredded brussel sprouts with lemon and thyme butter - weak moment in Tesco, will eat it tonight with...
Two bumper size fresh fish cakes from the local Farmer's Market.

That's it!
I don't keep eggs in the fridge.

Low fat spread , milk,orange juice,drinks for GC. An unopened bottle of coffee liquer bought for DH last Christmas. Carrots , cottage cheese , cooking apples and some ham for my daughters cat who is spending time on holiday with us. Oh nearly forgot some soup made yesterday which I am going to eat later.

I have assorted jams and marmalade, sticky pickle, mango chutney, marrow pickle (homemade) tomato ketchup, mayonaisse, salad cream, pickled beetroot and gherkins.
Double Gloucester cheese, processed cheese squares (for cheeseburgers). Pack of cooked ham slices. Eggs baking marg. clover spread. Caramel sauce.
In the salad drawers there are swede, carrots, potatoes, lettuce,cucumber and celery. Oh, nearly forgot the milk.
Not to forget half a can of dog food.

Yes, three. Only one in the house, but when you grow a lot of your own fruit and veg, vermin-proof cool storage becomes important. It's also nice to have somewhere to hide surprise cakes and things. So as it was my birthday on Saturday, DBH managed to keep the cake he made over three evenings last week, while I was out, a complete surprise!

Don't ask -

Not too much at the moment waiting for fresh salad deliveries into market shop as I never buy fresh goods on a Monday (a left over from my mums days)
There is butter sandwich filler eggs bacon and some new potatoes OJ and milk fridge tub of beans and some lidl potato au-gratin for to-morrows tea.So pretty low on stock at the present.

How many do you have janer? We have three but I didn't count the one in the utility room which houses wine, beer, champagne, tonics and soft drinks or the one in the garage which has any overflow at busy times! The one in the kitchen is an 'American' one and, like *harrigran's', never seems quite big enough!

Too much to mention.

And which fridge?

In the door I have marmalade, salad cream, French dressing, ketchup, chutney, mint sauce, capers, German mustard, Caesar salad dressing, sachets of stewed apple and milk.
Top shelf has white and rose wine and champagne and fresh orange juice.
Then comes yogurts, cheese spread, butter, margarine and other cheeses. Ham and other cooked meats and pates. Pre-prepared vegetables and some leftover salad from yesterday.
Bottom of fridge has sausages and schnitzels and some cooked potato left from yesterday. Salad drawer has peppers, tomatoes and cucumber.
I am just waiting for the rain to stop and then I will go shopping to get fresh meat and vegetables.
We have a floor to ceiling larder fridge for just two of us and it never seems quite big enough, I wonder if a good tidy would create more space.

It's looking rather bare at the moment.
Milk OJ, lager, jam, mayo, cold meat for sarnies, leftover roast pork from yesterday, eggs, butter, cheese, strawberry mouse, black pudding, kitkats.

Oh and something only the select few will have, insulin