What's In (And On) My Fridge???

This is either going to be the most boring post ever (thus cementing 2020 as a blogging low) or you might just find it intriguing (thus proving that a) you are nosy like me and b) loyal blog followers who are just happy to see a post, no matter what it's about). I got this idea from Joanne at Slices of Life. You can read her post here. It was part of a link up and I found it so interesting to see what was in Joanne's fridge, and how it was different from ours.

One thing I realized while taking these pictures, is that you get a very good idea of what the kids are eating right now. They definitely eat in phases! So without further ado, welcome to our fridge! Hahaha!!!

We have a side by side fridge and freezer so our actual fridge is fairly small and we're often playing fridge Tetris, as Dave and I call it. On Monday night we actually had a "leftovers night" for supper because we needed to get some things out of the fridge as opposed to adding more leftovers to it.

Our door holds eggs, random sauces and dressings, yeast, cans of Coke (wherever we can fit them in), Parmesan cheese (the big container we buy at Costco) and maple syrup. We always have big sizes of Italian, Ranch, and Caesar dressings and then a few smaller containers of specialty salad dressings. We bought some lime cordial syrup at the pool produce stand this summer so that's in there too -- I need to mix up some more of that as we only have it as a special treat. And right now we have a container of apple cider in there too which is another thing we only buy as a special treat.

Our top shelf is the yogurt and canned drinks shelf. And sometimes the kids' water bottles from the night before. Currently, our extra eggs also have to sit up here. Right now I am liking cherry yogurt and Rachel is devouring banana yogurt. Dave eats whatever (except for cherry) and Sam doesn't really eat yogurt. There's also usually beer and a drink or two for me on this shelf too.

This is our drinks shelf. Water, milk, and orange juice are always on this shelf. Right now the kids are loving the Passionate Peach 5-Alive and I'm loving the citrus. You can also see a carton of egg nog hiding behind the water. Dave and Rachel are the eggnog drinkers in our house. (Side note: Egg Nog in French is translated as "chicken milk" so Sam and I like to tease Dave and Rachel with that. We think "chicken milk" sounds disgusting!)

This is our protein drawer. Right now it is overwhelmed with cheese as we bought some extra special cheeses for the holidays -- an aged Balderson Cheddar and a Guinness Cheddar. They're delicious. There's usually a package or two of tofu in here as well as some summer sausage for Sam for lunches. And there's currently a lot of butter in here because "Hello, holiday baking!"

The shelf under the protein drawer rolls out which I love. This is usually where our extra eggs sit but right now that space is being taken up by our Cheese Advent calendar. (And for those of you who read this post, the original cheese Advent calendar cheese was disgusting and making our whole fridge smell so we emptied it out and put the cheeses in a Ziploc bag. Dave is currently eating his way through them because he likes smelly cheese. Also, the original calendar only had four different varieties of cheese -- this one has nine and Dave, Sam, and I love it. Rachel tolerates some of them.) Also, our fridge is usually 90% less cheese but it's the holidays right now. Hahaha!!!

Hiding on the back of this shelf are a few containers of sour cream (because Channukah starts tomorrow and "Hello, latkes!!!"), some cream cheese, some hummus (which Sam has been taking for lunch every day), and some random fruit. Rachel has been on a raspberry kick for awhile now and the cut up orange is for our holiday potpourri.

This is our pickles/margarine/leftovers shelf. That bag of raisins has been sitting there for awhile because Rachel no longer eats them. Also, Sam has been loving the 7 layer dip from Costco for lunches so we've had some of that in our fridge all fall as well.

This is our produce drawer. The kids take peppers, cucumbers, and green apples for lunches. We only buy romaine lettuce when we're planning on making a bunch of Caesar salad. And I think that's about it in this drawer.

This drawer always holds milk and carrots. And tortillas, if they're not in the drawer above. We've been going through tortillas like nobody's business because Rachel, especially, is loving cheese quesadillas right now. Again, we only buy spinach when we plan a couple of meals around it, although Sam LOVES spinach salad with hard boiled eggs.

And yes, in our province, milk comes in bags. It's weird. It's a (mostly) eastern Canada thing. (And I guess Israel, parts of South America, urban India and, more recently for a short time, the UK.) There's a Wikipedia article about it you can read here.

And since we've reached either a new blogging low (or high, depending on who you are), I thought I'd show you the outside of our fridge too. We recently cleaned it off because...

... we put all our holiday cards on our fridge and they stay there until the next year. So by the end of December, the fridge will likely be a lot fuller of all our friends and family. We also have all the kids' school pictures from Junior Kindergarten on (I'm so sad they won't get school pictures this year -- boo Covid). We have magnets from a family photo shoot a few years ago and a few other special pictures and magnets.

The picture on the right is the upper part of our freezer door. It has other magnets which are too big to use for the pictures on the left and a Blue Jays schedule from 2019. We had a printout of the the 2020 schedule there and soon, the 2021 schedule will appear. Hahaha!

So that's it. That's inside (and outside) of our fridge. This is a fun snapshot of what we're eating in December 2020. Now tell me something about your fridge. Is the cheese taking over? Is milk in bags the weirdest thing ever? Does the front of our fridge seem homey or make you want to scratch your eyes out and clean it off?!?!? Let me know!