A Peek at My Fridge!

I know you want to. I'm sure I'm not the only person who wants to know what's in people's fridges, am I? I am curious about others, so I'll show you mine! No, it isn't staged, but it has been recently cleaned. This is taken the day I went food shopping, so that is as full as our refrigerator gets. 

From top to bottom... 

Top Shelf

The top shelf with the mystery black liquid in a jar, that's an opened can of olives, don't worry. The top is usually reserved for leftovers because if I place them anywhere else, we forget about them. Leftover lemon, leftover peas. I also have my packaged imported beets and lentils here, they are vacuum packaged from France. It's a convenience food for us that I can toss into a salad or some other meal. 

Dairy Drawer

See that? That's butter, lot's of it. My cookie recipe calls for three sticks of butter and I make it twice a week, so you do the math. In addition to that we eat KerryGold or Kate's butter for breakfast every other day. That's where all the cheese is at too, we love our Gouda and Raw Milk Cheddar. 

Middle Shelf

I buy half the eggs organic and the other half plain (not labeled, but cage free according to Trader Joe's). We use organic for omellettes and scrambled eggs at brunch, the plain eggs for baking. If it was up to me we would buy four dozen pastured eggs from a local farmer! Alas, our budget isn't there. There is some organic apple sauce, I like to use it for baking, smoothies, and as is for my toddler to munch. That in the back is four large quarts of organic french vanilla yogurt, we eat a lot of it. It is the preferred 'before bed snack' of Baby E. The two packages of strawberries are not usually something in our fridge, my husband went to Aldi's and they happened to be $0.99, how could he resist?! We know they are in the top 3 for pesticide content, I asked him not to buy them there again, or at least not very often.

Bottom Shelf

In the back I have organic potatoes and sweet potatoes. The front is organic rice 'milk', orange juice (my husband's must have), and mango puree juice (first time I bought it just to try because it is too expensive for everyday). The empty spot in front of the potatoes is reserved for the large pot of soup we make every week, it becomes our lunch for about four days - cutting the amount of time I need to spend in the kitchen by a few hours every week!

Produce Drawers

I always wish these were bigger! But this fridge is designed more for the 'typical american diet' - i.e. for lots of packages foods and not so much loose produce. The plastic blue thing is the BluApple. These drawers usually contain some or all of the following: onions, carrots, celery, mushrooms, portabello mushrooms, sugar snap peas, baby carrots, cucumbers, avocados, tomatoes, spinach, arugula, zucchini, etc.

Top of Door

Lots of condiments and what not. Almond butter, organic peanut butter, Russian mustard (really hot stuff), horseradish, pesto, organic ketchup, organic blueberry and strawberry preserves (with a low less sugar than normal).

Middle of Door

Garlic, yeast, flax seed, wheat germ, buttermilk and cream (used for baking only), maple syrup. Open bottles of Floradix are also here, unfortunately I forget about them all.the.time!

Bottom of Door

We Can Too paints are here! These edible paints need to be refrigerated, how cool is that? Some Kefir, apple juice, opened wine, random ods and ends. 

What's in your fridge? Maybe you have a post about it if you're random like me! Feel free to link to it in the comments :)