We have a new fridge. Exciting, or what? Yes. Exciting. Because it's shiny and clean, with no horrible wilting vegetables or bits of things I've forgotten about. So. New fridge; new resolutions:
DO
Keep enough milk
Ditto beer (for visiting sons)
Spare butter (but only one)
Ditto marge
Maintain stock of small Coca Cola bottles (I can't stand it. My grandchildren can)
Keep a few eggs.
DO NOT
Hoard tiny amounts of leftovers, and only throw them away when they have grown green fur. I know they will grow green fur, and soon. I know all about green fur; I have in my time grown acres of the stuff. So why wait?
Keep spare egg yolks, in case I feel like making mayonnaise. I won't make mayonnaise. I haven't made it for years. Meanwhile, the yolks gradually harden, then crack, and are impossible to prise out of their container.
Keep a fragment of cauliflower/cabbage or similar. It's not enough to use, and it will grow green fur (see above)
Keep carrots if I can bend them. Carrots that bend are a Bad Thing, and I won't be using them.
Keep a quarter of a bottle of tonic water. It will go flat. In fact, it's probably already flat. Flat tonic water is horrible.
Hoard cheese, unless there's enough of it underneath the green fur to make it worth scraping clean. I have an enormous hunk of Parmesan that has to be scraped regularly.
There. I can't wait to get started
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Hope your new fridge is never host to the dreaded fur, the bendy carrots (I was almost in hysterics by the time I got to the bendy carrots in your post) and flat tonic water :-) x
ReplyDeleteTeresa, what I want to know is, how does the green fur get there? Is it everywhere, like all those telephone calls floating around waiting to be caught by mobiles?
DeleteGive us an update in three months, Frances :-)
ReplyDeleteAs for tiny leftovers - well, I keep them and then really use them. I love to surprise myself with what a mesh-up of various bits of leftovers is going to be like, and so far, it's always been rather nice.
The light in my fridge has decided to go bust the other day. At first I was afraid it meant the entire fridge was offline, so to speak, but thankfully, it is only the light and the fridge itself works fine. I really am not in the mood right now to buy a new one (meaning I'll need quite a bit of money to have the tap on my bathroom sink fixed. One such thing sets me back financially for months.).
Maybe it's just the bulb that needs replacing and not a malfunctioning light.....fingers and toes crossed for you.
DeleteMeike, even as I wrote this post, I thought of you, and I just knew you'd have no nasty bits left in your fridge!
DeleteHello Virginia, apparently it's the socket where the bulb is screwed in; the bulb itself is fine. Too bothersome to replace, so I'll just keep a dark fridge - there is enough light in my kitchen for this not to present a problem :-)
DeleteFrances, you know me too well! I have to throw out the occasional tomato or nectarine gone rotten, but other than that, there simply is never enough there to grow fur; it usually gets eaten long before that time.
We're getting a new fridge soon. I shall try to adopt the same resolutions (well not the coke as I don't have grandchildren and not the marge as we don't eat it and the beer's for Gary, but all the rest apply)
ReplyDeleteMaybe we'll find a use for green fur just after we stop producing it?
I suppose you could spin it, and then weave it into little place mats?
DeleteFrances, I'm happy that you have acquired a new fridge.
ReplyDeleteYou made me laugh at your do's and don'ts, only because I find myself in some of those situations sometimes.
Enjoy your new friend,.....oops, I meant fridge.
Oh, I am, Virginia. I am!
DeleteI give it about 2 weeks before the leftovers etc start creeping in! Just off to tidy my fridge.....
ReplyDeleteHow much do you bet, Frances?
DeleteI used to have a fridge full of the Dont's. But I have found a solution. Chickens. They are machines that process leftovers and ensure the fridge has virtually nothing in it.
ReplyDeleteBut it does mean we never have bubble-and-squeak any more. (Having said that, I used to wait for the green fur more often than I actually made bubble-and-squeak.
No room here for chickens. The only kind we have are...in the fridge.
DeleteI love a new fridge - mostly for the above reasons. I recognise a few of those don'ts. I'm sure we'd all love to know how that resolve is going by Christmas!
ReplyDeleteMmmm.I suppose I could post regular photos....?
DeleteIt's the things that lurk in the back of the freezer that bother me. If something has been there for longer than 3 months, is it still okay to eat? No green fur, just frost bite. We risked it with some smoked mackeral fillets the other day, and I'm still here to tell the tale.
ReplyDeleteOh yes! You can eat things MUCH older than that! Experto crede!
DeleteOne of the spin-offs of living in two places is that my freezer and fridges get cleared out at least once every 6 months. Mind you I did have a friend who stayed in the house for a while one UK winter when I was in New Zealand and she went through my food cupboards and threw away anything which had passed its best before date. I thought it was a bit of a nerve but it did mean that I had two free cupboards by the time I'd put everything that was left into the remaining cupboards.
ReplyDeleteOne of my sons does this. "mum! Have you seen the sell by date on this?" he cries, chucking packets into the bin. I treasured a little tin of anchovies circa 1987, but out it went.
DeleteNo , you mustn't start on your Don't list ... it's not done to bin anything once edible without a decent wake .
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