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What do people keep in their fridge?
I'm living on my own, with a job that takes up too much of my time and an occasional tendency to spend the bulk of the evening in my local pub. Upshot being that I generally don't cook a whole lot in the evenings, which means that the only foodstuffs you'll find in my house pretty regularly are ones that keep for long periods of time. I'll occasionally attempt healthiness and/or organisation and have some salad items and enough meat to cook dinners for the week and so forth, but come Friday the fridge looks like I just moved in (or out) again. And occasionally, last fortnight's lettuce pleads with me to put it in the bin.
Yet I have visited friends in similar living circumstances to mine, and they can barely shut the fridge door because of all the stuff in there. Since it's kinda rude to go poking through people's cabinets, I'm asking anyone who feels like volunteering the information what y'all put in the cold box in the corner. Or the rest of the kitchen, for that matter.
I'm living on my own, with a job that takes up too much of my time and an occasional tendency to spend the bulk of the evening in my local pub. Upshot being that I generally don't cook a whole lot in the evenings, which means that the only foodstuffs you'll find in my house pretty regularly are ones that keep for long periods of time. I'll occasionally attempt healthiness and/or organisation and have some salad items and enough meat to cook dinners for the week and so forth, but come Friday the fridge looks like I just moved in (or out) again. And occasionally, last fortnight's lettuce pleads with me to put it in the bin.
Yet I have visited friends in similar living circumstances to mine, and they can barely shut the fridge door because of all the stuff in there. Since it's kinda rude to go poking through people's cabinets, I'm asking anyone who feels like volunteering the information what y'all put in the cold box in the corner. Or the rest of the kitchen, for that matter.
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There are also lots of things that don't strictly need to be refrigerated, such as grains, nuts, etc., because I'm wary of mice and moths. Cheese...not much, but I do keep a big lump of pecorino and occasionally feta for salads and garnishes. Lemons.
I don't much like dealing with meat at home. If I do buy meat or fish, it's because I have a particular project in mind and I use it right away. Right now I have beets, lettuce, broccoli, and I think one more fresh onion, but those things vary. Also a bottle of Alsatian Riesling.
Outside the refrigerator I usually have pasta on hand (Mediterranean type and rice noodles) but haven't felt like it much lately. Too hot. There's always some kind of fruit, often a pineapple.
I have an odd breakfast staple: I cook up a bunch of whole mixed grains (wheat berries, rice, barley, triticale, whatever else is in the bag) with sesame seeds and fruit. It keeps for 4-5 days and I just scoop some into a cup in the morning.
At this time of year there's a reasonable selection of herbs growing outside.
Over the last year or two I've been away from home a lot, and that complicates things.