What's in Your Fridge?

[Sky]

I buy local stuff. Dinosaur BBQ's line is kick-ass. I usually go for their Wango Tango, which is a hot bbq sauce. Their rub is also  , even though I usually mix my own rubs these days. I also use Hoffman's german mustard, and slightly less local Nathan's mustard. I've also got a jar of horseradish that is just not supplying the proper kick, I was making roast beef sandwiches last week and even with about 1 1/2tb horseradish, no nose at all. I was bummed, I like a german mustard + a real sharp horseradish.

This really should be the sauce thread, seperated from the fridge porn thread, even if the fridge porn is kinda lacking :)

[Signe]

Shopping every day here would kill me.  I hate shopping of any sort.  A LOT.  I use my freezer and wish it had more space.  When I live in Britain, I don't mind so much.   I'll shop in outdoor markets, go to the butcher, etc.  But not every day.  I'd die inside a week. 

Also - Lingham's chili sauce - any variety.  It's incredible.

[IainC]

My fridge is kind of bare at the moment. I need to go shopping, we're down to emergency rations. Mostly it's full of cheese and the 5 gajillion different kinds of sauce my wife likes to drench everything with.

[rattran]

Just out of curiosity, does anyone else have a fridge without an attached freezer? 

[JWIV]

Beer Fridge  (I need to defrost it, but I keep putting it off)



Real Fridge




Bonus Hot Sauce and other hot stuff!    The unlabeled little container is homemade horseradish that has a badass kick and is sold at the local farmer's market.

[Murgos]

[Jain Zar]

Its not showing a couple condiments and some frozen peas, but this is my fridge, the fridge of a dieting guy who lives alone:


Not too special.

[Murgos]

French fries, bread and frozen dinners?   

How's that working?

[Cyrrex]

And does your gum really need to be cold? Really?

[Viin]

Dang, some packed and not-so-packaged fridges.

I was trying to take a pic of my fridge with my iPhone, but it way too dark - then I had the bright (haha?) idea of replacing the lightbulb that had been burnt out for several years. Wholly crap, I can actually see what some of this stuff is now!



Stupid milk carton started leaking after I got home so I had to put milk into Tupperware containers. You can see our last bottle of vanilla mead chillin' in the back.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone else have a fridge without an attached freezer? 

I've very very rarely seen fridges without freezers. Most of the ones I've seen are industrial fridges meant for restaurant kitchens.

[Grand Design]

Beer Fridge  (I need to defrost it, but I keep putting it off)

As a lush, I am thoroughly impressed.  I would reach new lows in catassing if I bought one of those.

[rattran]

I've very very rarely seen fridges without freezers. Most of the ones I've seen are industrial fridges meant for restaurant kitchens.

I have one, and would never go back. It has plenty of room, is energy efficient, and having a full size freezer lets us do things like keep and entire deer (in little flash frozen packages) 20 pounds of various fish and still have room for pizza and Jaegermeister.

The beer fridge is only a half-height fridge (no freezer)upstairs by the computer room and bedroom. It doesn't save many trips though, as the bathroom is downstairs.

[Jain Zar]

French fries, bread and frozen dinners?   

How's that working?

I like cold gum.  Keeps it better.  Being on a diet since December 06 makes me hungry and some cool gum gives me something to chomp on when I have hunger pangs.  Which is constantly.

The fries are baked (I don't actually fry anything.  If its not baked in an oven or popped in a microwave I generally don't eat it.  I am very picky on the TV dinners.  They have to be under a certain caloric content (350 or less), and have no trans fat.  Which usually means sliced beef, sliced turkey, and a couple others. 

But this is my general food intake on a day:  Breakfast (roughly 4-6pm.  I start getting a little dizzy or queasy if I go any longer)  A small amount of fries, and either baked poultry or fish.  Half a can of vegetables, and 2 slices of light bread.
(Roughly 600 calories.)

Lunch (roughly 11-1230 pm/am)  Packet of instant grits, oatmeal, or a cup or two of Cup a Soup plus 2 slices light bread.  (roughly  200 calories)

Dinner (roughly 3-430 am) 2 more slices light bread, plus either a tv dinner, cup ramen, soup cup, hormel meal thingie, and 2 Vitamin C drops.  (roughly 450 calories)

1250 or so main calories, plus leaving some estimated space for the few calories in ketchup, steak sauce, the powdered creamer for my coffee, sugar for my coffee, the small amount in gum, ect.

Ive lost around 60 pounds, but either the Zoloft or my metabolism has hit the point where I am slowly going back above 165.  Thus I cut out around 1500+ calories a week from my diet, and have started getting more exercise and keeping track of it on my penguin calendar with little smiley faces and uplifting comments. 

I really fucking miss my after work Neco Wafers.  But going on the Zoloft made me jump 3 pounds in a little over a month's time so I gotta do something.  From being the same weight for 6 months to that is bad juju.  Ill be more miserable and not take the fucking Zoloft if that's what it takes.  I really want to be around 150 or so. 

I don't really have much personal self control over myself with food, so I need to actively keep track of what i eat, and keep the food in the house as things I generally cannot snack on.  Hell, if I go to the movies I have to plan it before hand and eat a very tiny dinner so I can actually have some popcorn or nachos.

No booze at all, and if I must have soda, its caffeine and diet.

Course stress might have something to do with the gain too.  When you have this sort of conversation with someone who you thought was a friend:
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Me: By being the way I am being you mean sticking up for myself and no longer putting up with your particular brand of quirks?    There is a reason I am on Zoloft now. 
Him: > And if you attribute your zoloft to me, that just funny.
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Yeah.  And that's one of the less douchey things he has said to me in the past.

Decaf coffee is like my only vice foodwise.

(This kinda got over detailed didn't it?)

[Grand Design]

I've been trying to get back into a better diet, and the carbs are the first thing that go.  Bread is luxury and potatoes are for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I tend to cook up a ton of stir fry with chicken and frozen vegetables and go nuts.  You can eat until you're blue in the face and you will burn it right up.  Anything with a low carb / high fiber ratio works.  Of course, I'm hungry every three hours.

[Signe]

I don't like cold bread.  I have a bread box.  Why does everyone keep their bread in the fridge?  Does everyone have pest problems?  Cold gum sounds nice!  Like frozen grapes.

Good luck with your diet, Jain!  It sounds like you're doing really well.  I'm completely confused by your snippet of conversation with someone but I get confused with the conversations I have so I'm sure it's me.  Is everyone here on Zoloft?  I swear I've seen nearly everyone post something about Zoloft!  

Maybe we should start a "what's in your medicine cabinet thread"?

[Grand Design]

Maybe we should start a "what's in your medicine cabinet thread"?

Working on it.

[Viin]

I don't like cold bread.  I have a bread box.  Why does everyone keep their bread in the fridge?

I don't have a bread box, though I think I should get one. I keep it in the fridge to keep it fresh-ish, otherwise it'll only last a week at most.

[Jain Zar]

Yeah same here, especially in the summer.  It will go moldy fast.   
Plus some stuff like corn bread or biscuits are equally yummy straight out of the oven right after baking it, or chilled.
Its a testament of how I am fighting on my diet that I don't eat them all right out of the oven.

Bisquick Biscuits are damned tasty!  Just mix with some water, put on foil on cookie sheet, and whammo.

The cornbread mix I use is similar, cept it goes in muffin pans.

[Xuri]

I don't have a bread box, though I think I should get one. I keep it in the fridge to keep it fresh-ish, otherwise it'll only last a week at most.

People actually keep a single bread for more than a week? *astounded*

In my fridge I have butter, Norwegian brown cheese, a carton of some "exotic" fruit-juice that went out of date 4 months ago, and an empty jar of strawberry jam.

[apocrypha]

Bread in the fridge is wrong unless you don't eat it fast enough to stop it going furry. I used to wish they sold half loaves that were the same cross-sectional size as full loaves but only half as long. Nowadays we use a breadbin and get through bread way fast enough 

Our fridge is a freezerless one, it's great. Needs defrosting far less often and has lots more space. Stand-alone freezer in the cupboard under the stairs is v useful though :)

Anyway, here's our fridge atm:

[FatuousTwat]

Edit: I should probably move this to the medicine cabinet thread...

[IainC]

I don't have a bread box, though I think I should get one. I keep it in the fridge to keep it fresh-ish, otherwise it'll only last a week at most.

People actually keep a single bread for more than a week? *astounded*

In my fridge I have butter, Norwegian brown cheese, a carton of some "exotic" fruit-juice that went out of date 4 months ago, and an empty jar of strawberry jam.

Yeah after living in France I have become a bread snob. If it's more than a few hours old it's stale and goes to the bird table. Mind you it's so damp here that even batch loaves are furry within a day so keeping bread isn't possible anyway.

[apocrypha]

Isn't French bread made with no fat or something? I seem to remember that's why it goes stale so fast. Gotta say one of my favourite foods is bread that's only just cool enough to eat after coming out of the oven, with lots of butter, yum.

[schild]

Isn't French bread made with no fat or something?

I don't understand this sentence. What do you mean "no fat?"

A baguette (for example) is water, yeast, and flour afaik, were you expecting rendered duck fat or something. 

[apocrypha]

Lots of bread recipes have fats in them - milk is common in white bread, olive oil is common in a lot of Mediterranean breads, etc.

However, maybe it's not that that's different about French bread? I dunno, I just seem to remember that there's some reason French bread in particular goes stale very quickly.

Edit: OK, looked it up, it's because they're not allowed to put any preservatives in their bread. Faulty memory fixed with wikipedia 

[Trippy]

Surface area to volume ratio, "airiness" (density) of the crumb, and permability of the crust will determine how quickly the bread will go stale (assuming no bizarre ingredients to "preserve freshness"). A thin French baguette will go stale very quickly. A dense Italian country bread (e.g. Pugliese) not as quickly.

[Cyrrex]

Surface area to volume ratio, "airiness" (density) of the crumb, and permability of the crust will determine how quickly the bread will go stale (assuming no bizarre ingredients to "preserve freshness").

Well, duh .  Everyone knows this.  About bread.

[Trippy]

Apparently not

[apocrypha]

Surface area to volume ratio, "airiness" (density) of the crumb, and permability of the crust will determine how quickly the bread will go stale (assuming no bizarre ingredients to "preserve freshness"). A thin French baguette will go stale very quickly. A dense Italian country bread (e.g. Pugliese) not as quickly.

Well, yes, for sure. But see my post above about preservatives. And Italian breads have olive oil in them which will slow down the water evaporation too, thus delaying staleness :)

[Signe]

When I make or buy sandwich rolls or bread or some sort of sliced bread, I put it in the freezer and take out a couple of sliced to thaw if someone wants a sandwich.  Bread freezes amazingly well.  It will even retain it's crispy crust if you thaw it properly.  You can even refreezes it if you're careful and don't let it get damp.  As for any other breads I might bake or buy, it goes in to the bread box and once it starts getting stale, it becomes breadcrumbs.  Like Iain, I don't even like slightly stale, dried up, old, soggy, etc.  bread, though I don't think it's because of spending time in France.  I think it's just a peculiarity with me.  Righ is a wee bit more tolerant than I am.  Since there's only two of us, I only bake/buy small breads or freeze the left overs the same day.  Bread left out more than two days is too old for me, though not usually for Righ.

Geez.  I didn't realise I was so wordy about fucking bread.  Sheesh.  Shut up, me!

[Sky]

My fiancee is a bread fridger. She also eats some weird whole wheat stuff. It's good, but it's a bit strong for most stuff, I like a nice general purpose loaf of italian bread, baked about three blocks from where I work.  It's fresh and cheap, so I eat about half the loaf before it gets too stale and I just toss it.

I've got a thing about fresh food, I guess. The mozzarella is made about a dozen blocks away. I get bummed out in the winter when I can't shop the farmer's stands, one of which is directly next to the butcher shop. The best summer corn is about a mile from my house.

once it starts getting stale, it becomes breadcrumbs. 

HERETIC! Don't let VL hear you! She'll sass you.

[Lantyssa]

I did put bread in the fridge because it would go bad in a few days otherwise.  I always toasted it though, so it wasn't a problem.  Fresh French loaf though?  I still cheat if someone makes that.  Pain is transitory.  Bliss from fresh bread lasts forever.

[Jain Zar]

I just hate wasting food.  And since I am buying for one person, getting fresh bread really isn't in the cards.

There are people starving out there and to throw away half a loaf of bread because I didn't eat it in a day is just horribly wrong to me.

[Cyrrex]

I just hate wasting food.  And since I am buying for one person, getting fresh bread really isn't in the cards.

There are people starving out there and to throw away half a loaf of bread because I didn't eat it in a day is just horribly wrong to me.

You know what?  That's probably the most touching bread related post I've ever read.  Just thought you'd like to know.

[schild]

f13.net: Where we don't buy fresh bread because people in Africa are starving.

Man, what the FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?