Refrigerator Cleansing

[the_broken_tower]

Out with the old, and in with the new!

I emptied about half the refrigerator's contents in old food.

Grossness

Old pickles, half-used dried up jams, 'surprise! you don't like these' artichoke hearts, umeboshi and THREE containers of miso from five years ago (they're probably technically still edible, too! D:), and what used to be a bag of brussels sprouts but declined into a bag of mold...

I cleared out similar items from the pantry, too. All those stale sheets of seaweed, old bonito flakes, kombu, and expired Ikea gravy packets - in the trash!

The idea now is to ditch something if it isn't used within a week, and only have one item of each type in there at a time. If a new food is a slump and no one likes it? In the trash, clean the jar, don't buy it again.

I'm debating now whether to restock on the more seldom-used pantry ingredients I got rid of... It would be nice to have more umeboshi and miso, if they actually get used.

- Aa (she/her)

Comments

[wychwood]

That sounds like a good clear-out! And now you'll have more room for delicious things :D

[the_broken_tower]

Yep! And more peace of mind... That fridge is pretty small and not set up for easy access so it's easy to forget things in there.

- Aa (she/her)

[adafrog]

Woot!

[illariy]

Oh wow, what a great decluttering and cleaning time you had!

The fridge is hard to keep tidy for me because I just can't stop buying things that I then rarely eat or forget about. For me, I think the solution is to stop buying those things but I can't seem to bring myself to do that. Yet. Sigh.