Cleaning out leftovers, hell, cleaning out the fridge in general used to be one of those things that you say, "yeah, I'm gonna' do that tomorrow.." Sort of like replacing the wiper blades on your car, okay maybe not your car but definitely mine. I wait until I'm in the middle of a hurricane before I'll finally pull into 'Auto Zone' and purchase them and then with any luck have the pizza faced, 14 yr. old, "I know nothing about vehicles what-so-ever" clerk come out into the torrential rains and put them on for me. Cleaning out my fridge was pretty much the same. I basically had two cleaning seasons on my fridge. When company's coming and when the holidays are approaching. Other than that it was always on that, "I'm gonna' do that tomorrow" list and trust me, if I ever came across something as moldy and disgusting as that photo, the whole container, plate, bowl, whatever, was tossed! Buying a new container is always easier than vomiting while cleaning out the "science experiments."
When the kids were young I wasn't quite so anal about cleaning out the leftovers in my fridge mainly because with 4 kids in the house, 3 of them being boys, left overs fell under the same catagory as money and toilet paper. You never had any! Unless it was, such as this photo above, sweet potatoes. My kids hated them and so did I! But I made them every Thanksgiving because I thought, how can you have the perfect "Currier & Ives" Thanksgiving table without those marshmellow topped sweet potatoes?? Or cranberries, another "science experiment" waiting to happen. But as my little birdies started to flee the nest I did notice the "science experiments" seemed to take flight as well. I suppose over the years I learned to cook only what people liked and would eat and now cleaning out the fridge hardly falls into the category of cleaning at all. It's just basically wiping down the shelves and organizing salad dressings.
Do you have any "science experiments" in your fridge? What do you do with them? Are you Martha Stewart ditching them after a day or do you even keep left overs? I was surprised at how many people don't, they just toss what they don't eat, which is something I have never been able to do. Wasting food was a huge no no in my house. What about the containers? Do you keep them or toss them? Annnd.. Have you ever returned a dish with a "science experiment" growing inside???
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I try to keep the experiments out of the frige, but shutter to think what's under it.
That is gross. I wouldn't have the nerve to return a dish like that! I clean my fridge out every week, wipe out, through out, wipe the outside...etc....I can't imagine having stuff like that in my fridge!!
Well, with a family of four, my hubby and I work full time and the kids are sent with grandma. I cook enough for dinner and lunch for the following day. Then we have a 1 1/2 year old that is a vacuum, what ever is left over and we no longer want to eat, we take to grandma. We try not to be wasteful with our food. We do however have science experiments in out topper wear when we forget at work or in the car. Nasty, we usually just toss out with dish if its plastic, if its glass which I like better then plastic, I have to suck it up and wash it. Cleaning out the fridge....hmmm, what is that? maybe once a year if lucky. As for family dishes, I would never do such a thing, in fact it is tradition that if you take some left overs from a family party you return the dish with fresh food, something you would like to share.
I am holding my nose whilst reading this, because I swear to god, I can smell that picture!
I just can't understand why she didn't clean it before handing it back Can you imagine the state of her kitchen? *gag, heave, cough* :)
Yes, the experiments but never return them. LOL
@Mis A - That's why my fridge has those little coasters on each corner. Inevitably that is exactly where my grandson's toys will end up! :)
@Sandy - I know! Can you imagine? It was like 4 months later and she returned it!
@Akashic - We have that same return policy. We make something in the dish and take it back. :)
@Lily - I know! I wonder if she was just trying to be a bitch.. Who knows but that is nasty!
@Jolene - No kidding and I would say, who would but obviously there's someone.. Glad she's not in my family!
Ok Im late to the science party ...will everyone hate me if I confess I clean out my fridge at least every other week?
I'm proud to say I've never let it get to the science experiment phase unless it went bad extremely quickly (like mushy vegetables). I have always made it a habit to toss stuff out as I make my weekly grocery list. And now I'm engaged to a man who admits he lives to eat, and the way to his heart is thru his stomach. So all I have to say is, 'we have a ton of leftovers babe....' to which he replies, 'don't worry baby, I'm on it.'
Like you, I always keep leftovers. Comes from the “waste not, want not” philosophy of my parents who lived thru the Depression. Yep, I know about “surprises” when cleaning stuff out of the fridge, like, yikes, was that once edible, what the heck is it anyway?! LOL! Usually, my leftovers get eaten but sometimes just get left over in the back of the fridge. I try to keep the containers unless they are too awful, then I have to toss them out. And No way would I ever return a dish with a “science experiment” growing in it. Gross! How does someone return a dish like that?!!
@Jersey - I know. Like sometimes I'll buy something and totally forget about it.. And never in a thousand years would I return something like that. We always return dishes with something yummy in them. :)
That is disgusting! Ew!
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