The Bookworm Challenge discussion

If you open your fridge right now what would you see?

Our fridge is always bursting at the seams full.
I often have a hard time finding even an inch of space to cram something else in. Yet, in three days we will have eaten most of it and replentished it with new stuff.

A quick look and you'll see the top shelf usually has a container with some left overs, a container with flax, a container with yeast, some milk, cream, whipped cream, maybe a bottle of hot fudge.
The next shelf is seemingly endless containers of yogurt, sour cream, tzatziki, hummus, vegetable dip, jams, stuff like that.
Bottom is always loaded with vegetables and leafy things. Things often roll out of there, watermelons or parsnips, things like that.
Then the drawers at the bottom are colourful bins full of fruit and vegetables.
Our fridge often shocks people by how full it is.

I was at Costco this morning, so right now our fridge has 4 gallons of milk!

All sorts of drinks. We are a well-hydrated family.
And right now, several cartons of eggs. Though they're too old for egg hunts, *sniff, wipes away tears*, my boys still like to color eggs. This yearly ritual bores me to tears, but they like to write nasty things on the eggs with white crayon before dyeing. In a few weeks, I'll be peeling the shells off of lovely pastel eggs that say, "Nate is gay" and "Pete has man-boobs."
Yay, tradition!

ROFL!

Melki - you have to think of some really good zingers to put on the eggs, you know, puns about philosophy or history.

Looking through our fridge you'd think we are not a well hydrated family like yours Melki. We have milk, cream, and a half empty bottle of pink wine (think Boone's).
We are those mean parents who do not allow their children to drink juice or pop. It's funny when other kids come over and we give them water. Last summer one kid wouldn't drink it - she 'wasn't a fan of water.' She only drinks apple juice.
I took a look at the shelves on the door of our fridge yesterday - something I just realized I rarely do. Boy, was it an interesting assortment of things. Wine vinegar, apple vinegar, balsamic vinegar...rows of vinegar! Then a costco sized mayonnaise that took up an entire shelf. Then some really old cans of ginger ale? Other than the condiments like mustard, ketchup, and HP, I don't know why most of the stuff was in there, or how old it is?

Why is the vinegar in the fridge?

We only do soda on vacations. The DH takes OJ in his lunch and I give the boys sugar-free lemonade in theirs, while I (since I lunch at home) range over both of those, water, coffee, etc. On the very bottom of the door is a shelf with my wine and any misc. drinks--right now there's a bunch of beer, left by a houseguest. We seldom drink beer, so it may be there a while!

It's the dairy stuff that marks us--not only all that milk, but multiple cartons of yogurt (all plain, non-fat, quarts), cottage cheese, cheese (bought at Costco so there is LOTS). Pizza time!

We often have lots of non-fat yogurt containers too, since the high fat ones get eaten right away - they are so much tastier.

I don't buy yogurt with fat in it. To be honest, having gotten unused to it, I don't care for it. Nor the flavored stuff. If we want a little sweetness and flavor, we add jam or canned fruit.

A lot of clean space, prepping for holiday leftovers :)

Leftovers of all varieties, lots of condiments, home made jams and jellies, home made yogurt, home made pickles, milk, eggs, butter, cheese...and that's just the fridge in the kitchen. The garage fridge is filled with eggs (bought in bulk on sale), clearance priced holiday candy (mornings after major candy holidays are usually spent at Wal-Mart), assorted beverages (sports drinks, soda, beer, kvas), hummingbird nectar, bird feeder suet cakes...

It has been three days since we have went to the grocery store. Our fridge went from overflowing to near empty (or at least empty of fresh things)...dang kids!

Havent been shopping for about a week so its looking pretty bare...but there is beer, cheese, ham (out of date...), various sauces, butter, buttercream (various colours/flavours), milk, vodka, garlic, mustard and mayo!! All the good stuff of life :-)