Fridge Surfing
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
Boston, Massachusetts
January 3, 2017 8:55am CST
I am hungry and I want something for breakfast, but I don't like anything I have.
I want pancakes, but I have to make them and I may just be too lazy.
There's some yogurt that's well past its "sell-by" date. There's some other yogurt that's just a little bit past its "sell-by" date. And you have to wonder, what can possibly go bad in yogurt? It's already curdled. That's how it got to be yogurt.
The sour cream is nearing its expiry date. Sour cream. It's sour when you buy it, so what happens when it gets past its prime? Does it start going fresh?
So, I will probably make pancakes, but I wish I had more people to eat them since I can't make batter for fewer than 4 pancakes due to my inability to split an egg successfully.
What do you have in your fridge that you don't understand?
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21 responses
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
3 Jan 17
@LadyDuck - they do lose their potency over time. I just bought a new spice and compared it to the older one - quite a difference and it probably was only a year old.
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
3 Jan 17
My fridge is close to empty. I live alone. Who eats all my food?
Hmmm, I could have anything in my fridge that comes in small jars: olives, pickled beets, parmesan cheese. I do have frozen meals in the freezer so for breakfast I could have pizza, chicken pot pie, salisbury steak, or I might stir-fry some veggies and toss in tofu or edamame. These don't sound like breakfast items, but they might do anyway.
Have you ever had pizza for breakfast?
PS. I never check the sell-by or use-by dates. If it doesn't have mold, it's fair game in my house. It's probably a good thing I live alone! 
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
3 Jan 17
@blitzfrick I think that might be too adventurous for me to eat for breakfast.
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
3 Jan 17
@Rollo1 LOL, me too. Today I ended up having about a third of a can of chili over a bed of ramen noodles. Yes, that was breakfast. 
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
3 Jan 17
pancakes I think freeze ok, I know waffles do
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 Jan 17
@Rollo1 I bet someone in that house would have eaten them later lol
@GardenGerty (157552)
• United States
3 Jan 17
I have little dibs and dabs of everything. I would love to make pancakes, but not motivated enough yet. I was motivated to make breakfast casserole last night and that will take us through the rest of the week.
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@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
5 Jan 17
Why do we store so much leftover food in the fridge . . . when we mostly end up NOT eating them . . . and it takes up so much space. It's not cool to find fuzzy creatures inhabiting the leftovers we were planning to eat, um, someday. 
Happy New Year to you!
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
4 Jan 17
Lol I rarely check the dates on my yogurt for this very reason, my eggs are always weeks past their sell date and I cut the green off the cheese. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger!!
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jan 17
Nothing! There are fresh veggies and things like that.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
3 Jan 17
I don't buy food that I don't understand LOL
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
3 Jan 17
@Rollo1 I also don't eat food that makes me cry - my husband eats hot peppers that make him cry.
@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
3 Jan 17
I am not a good eater, very picky. So if there is something in the fridge that needs throwing out, my hubby has to do it or I won't eat at all lol. And he knows it, he cleared out the fridge last night as garbage is picked up today.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
3 Jan 17
@Rollo1 I live with men it better not look empty lol.
@celticeagle (159008)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Jan 17
We just got groceries so there are options. I think it is time for you to go through your fridge and get rid of old stuff. Then replenish. Don't do it when you are hungry though. That's a bad mistake.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
4 Jan 17
You can always keep pancakes in the fridge and bring them to life by steaming them.
I too like pancakes and when I was holidaying in the US I got to eat them with maple syrup
@Tampa_girl7 (48929)
• United States
4 Jan 17
Sometimes I take a chance with a food that is past its best by date. We have some buttermilk that we didn't finish in time and used it in cornbread yesterday. We survived the consumption of it. 
@moffittjc (118435)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Jan 17
My fridge is empty right now except for some almond milk and water. If I had to question something, it would be how in the heck do they get milk from almonds? haha
I once questioned the expiration date on a bag of croutons. What's going to happen after the expiration date, will they get stale and hard? Isn't croutons nothing more than stale, hard bread broken up into pieces?
@JudyEv (325751)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Jan 17
My fridge is pretty good at the moment. I don't like fur on things so mostly I'm able to chuck things out before they get to that stage. But I wonder about yoghurt too.
