Do you like to stare in people’s windows? Or peer into other’s medicine cabinets? Do you bristle when someone confuses the classy and French word “voyeur” with the creepy and oft illegal “stalker? Then you’ll enjoy this monthly ditty called, What’s In Your Fridge? I’ve asked food bloggers, comediennes and other notable ladies about the contents in their refrigerators. Because there are some things you just can’t gauge with high-powdered binoculars.
Christina Gausas / The Stepfathers
Here’s what’s in my fridge in LA where I am for pilot season and a writing project:
Trader Joe’s Roasted Soy Butter Crunchy
1/2 gallon skim milk
1 lb. low sodium ham
1 lb. roasted turkey breast
1 lb. Jarlsberg lite cheese
1 jar olives
31 pre cooked farm raised shrimp
White Rice Loaf
1 bottle Centrum vitamins
1 dozen brown eggs from cage free hens
1 bottle Nivea body lotion
3 lbs. strawberries NOTE: Christina pointed out that she normally doesn’t have strawberries and shrimp in her fridge, but she was planning a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner. Sweet.
Amanda’s fridge holds the magic that is Perdue Short Cut Chick Strips
Amanda Kludt / Assitant Editor of Gridskipper
Sadly, the only food that’s mine in the fridge is the cottage cheese on the bottom left and the Purdue short cut chicken strips on the top. Also the jam and the mayo on the condiment shelf are mine and probably a rotting red pepper in the crisper, but we don’t need to go there. It’s pretty sad. I don’t cook very often and obviously I use non-organic pre-cooked chicken short cuts when I do. I had tofu in there last week but my roommate threw it away because she said it goes bad if you don’t change the water every day. Who knew? I guess I go out to eat more than I realized.
Kristen Bonardi Rapp / Gezellig Girl
Top shelf: lactose-free milk, soy milk, cranberry juice, peeled garlic (leftover from writing this.), evaporated milk, kimchi, pancake mix, sour cream, blueberry jam, chicken stock
Middle shelf: fruit punch juice boxes, chicken, ground beef, garlic butter, two orphaned beers and a Pepsi, Turkish delight, vegan, margarine, rye bread, raisin bread, whole wheat bread
Cheese drawer: guava paste, Manchego cheese, queso blanco, Laughing Cow cheeses, sliced deli cheese (Anne Note: Foodies almost always have a good supply of cheese in their fridges.)
Bottom shelf: raw eggs, two bags of salad greens, spaghetti squash
Brita pitcher, fresh parsley, hard-boiled eggs, loose garlic, green bell peppers, red bell peppers, one overripe tomato
Produce drawers: one onion, three more heads of garlic, Pink Lady apples, navel oranges, grapefruit, pears, baking potatoes, yellow and orange carrots, lemons, more red and green peppers
Erin Rose Foley / Hello Hilarious Contributor/ Ketchup Lover
It’s a grim list, lady. I buy only what I need for the night, so there’s not much in there:
Brita pitcher
half a gallon of milk, fresh
8 eggs, very old
2 jars tomato sauce
hummus
a million ketchup packets
Andrea Lynn / Food Blogger /Madison & Mayberry
My fridge is a bit bare between not feeling so hot and making the decision to watch the Grammys over going to the grocery store.
Here’s what I have:
Parmesan, eggs, yogurt, bacon fat (that i collect), Sabra olive hummus (I consider this brand of hummus the best!), leftover Carrot Curry Soup. lemons, an avocado, some clementines, a couple apples, an assortment of cheese (Anne note: See? Cheese!) and Gatorade, which I am conditioned to guzzle anytime I feel ill no matter the sickness! There’s also some tequila which I think some roommate along the course of my apartment left in there but I still am a bit hesitant on just taking it since it’s not really mine!
Natasha Levinger / Writer / Mother of Cute, Carrot-Faced Little Girl
Well this is embarrassing, but I did it for you! It
actually forced me to clean the crisper, so it’s a
good thing.
The fridge of new parents: plenty of baby food and a gigantic container of coffee.
Jen MacNeil /How To Be A Person
Amidst the abandoned takeout, forgotten takeout and undesired takeout sit a disporportionate amount of beverages. I think my fridge has more bevvies than edibles. In this shot alone, you can see a bottle of Stewart’s root beer, white cooking wine that’s been corked since I moved into the apartment, a Tropicana smoothie, several bottles of water, several cartons of soy milk and, the crem de la lactose-free cream, a bottle of Ensure to further make the point that my refrigerator does not contain enough actual food.
Jenny Mac’s Motto: Never Let Them See You Dehydrated.