National Clean Out Your Fridge Day

It's that time of year again to pull out the crisper bins and play "What is (was) that?" regarding the sludge in the area under them.

Let's take a look at what needs to go...

Start by chunking anything past it's expiration date, toss out the vast quantity of condiment bottles that only have 1 tablespoon left in them, get rid of anything mushy that should be crunchy and vice versa, discard all of those food gifts from last Christmas that have been shoved to the back, anything in a packet goes.  Toss out all of those good intentions as well, you know you aren't going to start eating kale.  And while you are at it don't forget the freezer compartment.  Just because it's frozen doesn't mean it's still good.  So all of those "deals" you got on 'reduced for quick sale' meats that are now coated in freezer burn from being put in there in the original packaging are garbage.  Sure it sounds wasteful but it's time for you to own up to your mistakes and learn to not make them again.

Tough love is what is going to work cleaning out that fridge.

Now that the putrid has been expelled let's clean up. 

Your fridge needs a spa day.  Give the exterior a manicure, brow tweezing, and botox.

As for the interior...

Now that all the garbage is gone give it a good sanitary wipe down.

All nice and decluttered just in time to jam it full of pies, gravy, and Jack Daniels in a couple of weeks.

The owner manual featured today is for a 1950s General Electric Refrigerator Food Freezer }  Combination and has 76 new-different-recipes!

I'll be trying out a few in the next post!

For more fridge clean-age check out these past years:

2016

2018

2019