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Fridge

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I have more produce than a single girl can, or will, eat. I know this because of the amount I discard, and because I've not yet needed to pick the lettuces growing in my little vege patch.

Show us what's in your fridge.
Submitted by Jill.

I do need to make more of an effort to keep up my vegetable intake, and to stop wasting my money. Both my health, my scales, and my bank balance will benefit. And my relatives will be spared having receiving a wrapped carrot or tomato for Christmas.

In terms of snacks, unless your'e talking celery sticks or sweet peppers, the real substance is on top of the fridge. There you'll find the fruit bowl and platter¹  with mandarins², kiwifruit, oranges, bananas³ and apples both green and red⁴. Other snacky items are walnuts, pecans and almonds (in little containers like those in my fridge⁵). All very healthy and good.

Did I mention I live a few properties down from a dairy that stocks all sorts of badness?

Footnotes:

¹ Pretty blue glass, gifts from former colleagues. Not sure why they thought glass would be a suitable parting gift for someone leaving to travel interisland, and shipping all of her belongings by courier. But they survived, despite the odds. And to be honest, have gotten more use than the beauty creams, and Care Bear keyring that were included by the girls in my department.

² These were a purchase intended to curb bad snacking, little fruits I could grab when the need arose. But they're sour little buggers, so now instead of eating them, I tend to glare at them until the craving passes.

³ I'm regimental about breakfast. Three kinds of cereal (puffed wheat, bran flakes, and all bran), with plain yoghurt, chopped peach slices (canned, baby), and banana slices. Must have bananas.

⁴ Again, particular about applies. If I'm buying red, it's NZ Rose, or zip. I'm partial to Granny Smith apples, but they take a particular mood, and seem to bruise easily (not good when you lug your groceries up a hill).

⁵ I like plastic. And conformity. And tea towels. I'm a bit odd.