For how long you keep your food in refrigerator?

Hi there, I and my hubby do the food shopping once or twice a week, so whatever we needed this week we should buy it, to save diesel to keep going back to the supermarket, so our refrigerator is always full. To keep the vegestables fresh and away from mold, i put then in the special plastic bag. It last weeks or more for me,aside from the meat, it takes only 3 days depends on the expiry date, thats why i often buy frozen meat, last longer.
Happy myloting.

I will keep food only for one or two days in refrigerator. I don't like to keep food in refrigerator for a long time. I don't feel like eating it even if it is not spoiled. My husband keeops all food in fridge. He even deep freeze meat for a week. I always make sure to heat food taken out from refrigerator before we eat. I like to prepare food in small quantities.

being an ex chef, there are always heaps of, well everything in my fridge, but im not the only one that uses it so there are alot of old things in there every now and again, i guess its just nature! you know that your never going to eat the rest of someething that you wrap up and store in the fridge, i guess you just do it so when it finally goes off you can feel a little better throwing out old food rather than freshly cooked extras!

Hi Karen,

My mother is similar with your parent-in-law, they would like to buy the food stocked in the refrigerator that I can not stand.

The food will lose the nutrition value when they stocked too long in the refrigerator. I really would like to buy the fresh one to cook even it takes much time to do it.

You can politely give your suggestion to your parents-in-law for the kid's purpose.
Happy mylotting.

Yeah, we do that too. As long as the food is eatable, it will be there until we either cook and eat or it rot and will be away once we do the once-in-a-while clearance. We do the shopping twice a week, one for wet market and another for dry stuff. Since there's only a few people in the house, it will take awhile for the food stock to be deflated. It's natural if the fridge will always be full.

I usually finsih the vegetables,fruits within a week.Other things would not last more than 3 days.Being vegetarian, i am not sure on the meat.My refrigerator is not full with food.I like it to have spaces than be crowded with all the stuff.It helps in keeping it clean and looks nice.Thanks!

When the food starts to go bad in the fridge then you have to throw it out so its not a good idea to keep food for long in a fridge. Some things you can keep for a long time and others you can't. Filling up a fridge is only a good idea when you can't go grocery shopping all the time or if its inconvenient.

my family doesn't keep food for more than two days in fridge as my dad is completely against keeping them more than that.so left overs have to get utilised within this time or thrown away.in case of vegetables and other raw materials we might keep them a little longer but hardly over a week.my family prefers more fresh ones over stored ones

My refrigerator is not always full. I buy enough food for the two of us hopeful to last at least a week. I usually go grocery shopping on either Monday or Tuesday after husband has been paid.

We usually kept cooked foods at ref two days at most. Frozen foods can take more than this. I usually have frozen fries for almost two weeks now, but I see to it that its well frozen. Uncooked meat and fish are kept at a week most. Vegetables are kept not longer than three days, and they're the ones being cooked first as they get rotten faster than the others.