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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: OhLaLa on April 30, 2013, 06:54:24 pm
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When you open the door to your fridge, what do you find you have the most of in there?
Normally with us it's chutneys, but right now it's chocolate. Easter has been and gone and as usual the place is over run with Easter Eggs and their choccy based contents. No one here is that keen on the stuff so it hangs around for months, eventually being reincarnated into Chocolate Fudge Cake or the ilk.
You?
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Right now, air :innocent:
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Muller light yogurt. I'm on a diet so I have them for desert.
If it wasn't for the diet I would be saying 'pass the chocolate my way please' I love the stuff ;D
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Eggs. Everywhere is overrun with eggs at the moment.
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Same as Bionic!! the turkish delight ones ;D
Oh and lettuce, cucumber, 3 bean salad and grapefruits
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Natural yoghurt. I hate the stuff but the last few weeks I've been nursing poorly sheep and chickens at different times.
And wine...to get me through the emotional stress xxxxxx
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Bacteria , lots of it !
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3 Bean Salad - yum yum (I adore salads, even in winter I scoff them happily). Muller Light Yogurt - yum yum. Can't remember the last time I tasted Muller Light, used to buy the big pots.
Turkish Delight flavour? Ohhh.......... never seen that one.......... yum again!
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Don't have a fridge. That means I never get tempted to have too much of anything - saves a lot of money!
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You can get Turkish delight flavour muller lights? Out of my way shoppers, desperate dieter coming through! :excited:
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I go through 12 pints of milk a week and can't afford to buy daily in the shop , but i have lived without one in the past like you Ina .
When i am on the land , the river will be my fridge .
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Milk, milk and more milk... getting about 21ltrs a day, yes that's correct 21 ltrs (out of 6 goats, about to go up to 7 goats tomorrow). BUT 8 goat kids take just over 16 litres, also got two lambs on the bottle.. as of tomorrow it will be 10 goat kids...
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I go through 12 pints of milk a week and can't afford to buy daily in the shop , but i have lived without one in the past like you Ina .
Temperatures here don't often get above fridge temperature anyway - even in summer... ;)
I have one of those double walled plant pot coolers, which helps a bit; plus I keep milk in a bucket with water in the shade. At the moment, it keeps perfectly fresh for a week. I don't shop every week these days; the rest of the time I have the coffee black - and I use dried milk for cooking, anyway. Everything else (yoghurt, cheese) keeps for at least two weeks without any problems.
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I was going to put milk but seeing Anke's vast quantities makes mine look a pittance. More than we can use anyway. I'm freezing spare for cheese making as and when I can find containers to freeze it in.
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We have the remains of my stewed fruits of the forest that mostly I collected last year and added some 10p blueberries, then loads of cheese, I love cheese but do not eat much of it anymore, it was bought for cooking etc but I did not end up using it all, so now its getting used slowly, also some plain yogurt otherwise its usually salad stuff, thinking back, my parents never had fridges and I dare say we could go without!!!
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eggs ....
chicken eggs, duck eggs, turkey eggs, occasional quail egg,
then milk,
then air!
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Didn't I read somewhere that you should not keep eggs in fridges ? :thinking:
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cold eggs don't make good cakes but otherwise I don't think there is a problem.... unless you know different?
in my fridge ...... well out of date fruit juice .... bought on sunny day before weather turned back to coffee weather! soggy salad (same reason) almost empty milk carton .... got any spare Anke? yogurts (need eating... but choc cake to finish first! Oh and some liver .... to feed the local wild Buzzard which pops along for breakfast most days..
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Didn't I read somewhere that you should not keep eggs in fridges ? :thinking:
My understanding is that you should BUT you should allow them to come to room temperature before using them. I'm going to have to start freezing them soon.
We bought 20 pol and they are laying like mad but the eggs are still too small to sell to the public. In some ways it's great, 'cos demand is such that we don't often get eggs (only chipped and dirty ones ;D )
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We do not keep our eggs in the fridge either, , mind you, with 4 chickens we do not get too many, when we have a load I make cake and give the dogs scrambled eggs, they love that.
Certainly made me think if we do need a fridge, we used to survive with pantries and stone slabs, there are lots of nice cool places in our house but some modern houses would be far too warm...... ::)
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Don't keep eggs in the fridge either.
Ours seems to be full of half full/empty bottles & jars of various condiments, Stella Artois & white wine :innocent: and various lumps of cured pig!
mandy :pig:
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Eggs in a fridge is a question i have often wondered about (sheltered life) so i asked my dear wife who use to run the dairy department in a supermarket.... her reply was..they are better off in a cool area but not a fridge as it effects cooking... thats why supermarkets keep them on the shelf ....
so why does fridges come with an egg holder :thinking: ...gimick
better off in the larder ....
anyway ! to answer the question, cheese, ham, sausages, bacon, milk, white wine, ketchup
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i always thought you weren't supposed to keep eggs in the fridge because the shell is permeable and there is a chance that the egg will take on a 'taint' from strong smelling foods. I still keep mine in the fridge though and they have never smelt funny!
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All this wine in the fridge. ;) .....no way will I keep wine in our fridge, its totally against my principles.........I just have to drink it all :innocent:
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All this wine in the fridge. ;) .....no way will I keep wine in our fridge, its totally against my principles.........I just have to drink it all :innocent:
Now that is definatly my way of thinking !
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315863/Big-brother-switch-fridge-Power-giants-make-millions--pay-sinister-technology.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315863/Big-brother-switch-fridge-Power-giants-make-millions--pay-sinister-technology.html)
Food for thought, fridgewise. Soon won't even be able to open our fridge doors without big brother having a panic attack! :rant:
I have in my fridge at the moment two gala melons rolling about on the shelf and a never ending supply of value prawns for our poorly cat - its all she'll eat just now.
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We have the remains of my stewed fruits of the forest that mostly I collected last year and added some 10p blueberries, then loads of cheese, I love cheese but do not eat much of it anymore, it was bought for cooking etc but I did not end up using it all, so now its getting used slowly, also some plain yogurt otherwise its usually salad stuff, thinking back, my parents never had fridges and I dare say we could go without!!!
Sandy, when I first read that I thought you had added the blueberries and cheese to your stewed fruit. :roflanim:
I don't keep wine in the fridge. I only drink red. ;)
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I am overrun with eggs too, I don't keep them in the fridge but they sit on top of it, trays, boxes, stacks of the damn things ::) I am getting around 12-14 a day and some weeks only sell a couple dozen, others it's double that but I don't have anywhere near enough clients buying regularly enough to avoid eating 3 almost every day myself and that's my limit, I'm sick of eggs already and it's only May!
I also have 3 huge jars of pickled eggs on the worktop beside the fridge, half a dozen quiches in the freezer and have just bought some lemons to make lemon curd, I gave a dozen with some flowers from the garden to a neighbour on her birthday and then another dozen to someone that just stopped to ask for directions but commented on the hens and said she had 5 hungry kids at home, just one in the car but I was glad to get shot of a few!
IN the fridge there is a salad drawer full of bottles of Stella I got as a bargain box, to feed the neighbour that chainsawed a tree for me but he's more to do and I keep him company shifting logs and burning debris so we both get one every Saturday more or less and if a couple disappear other nights well that's just how it is ;)
There are 4 or 5 jars of mayo ::) a 4 pint milk bottle, 2 blocks of butter because I was considering baking to use up a few eggs.. a bag of carrots for the mare who just foaled on Tuesday and I think that's it.
The egg glut is getting me down a bit - if I spent the £10 a week from layers pellets on shopping my diet would have greater diversity than it does on an egg based diet, let alone the corn, flubenvet feed, grit, shavings etc I put into the hens every month, and if they were all laying every day I'd get 2 dozen and be moving into the garage by now but that means half are slacking yet and eating for nothing ???
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If you all have so much trouble getting rid of eggs, won't any of the food banks I keep hearing about be happy to take some - or places like the Cyrenians in Aberdeen, where they cook food for homeless people? Plenty of folks out there who can't afford to buy eggs, let alone decent eggs...
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Cheese ! we seem to be on a mission to have a piece of every cheese you can ever buy in our fridge :roflanim: