Monday, April 27, 2009

Whats in my fridge...

In my fridge contains:
-Frozen Peas
-Frozen Ego Waffles
-A Blue Ice Packer Thing
-Butter
-Pasta Sauce
-Two Potatoes
-Month old almost empty orange juice carton
-Two apples
-One fairly old orange
-Icing
-Milk
-Craft Cheese
-Almost empty Perrier bottle
-And a crap load of different sauces such as Caesar dressing, soya saucse, Italian dressing, ketchup etc. that has probably never really been used.

In my fridge it may be noticed that it does not contain a very large content of fresh foods and mostly frozen foods. I think compared to many other middle class families or households with two people would probably on average have a lot more food in their fridge compared to my fridge. I do not think this has anything to do with the fact that I am vegetarian although my friends seem to think so. Personally I think the lack of fresh foods such as fresh vegetable or even drinks or fruits and other common fridge items is mainly due to either 1) me and my father are too lazy to go shopping 2) I don't eat very much and somtimes only eat 1 meal a day with some small snacks throughout the day and 3) my dad doesn't spend much time at home so the majority of his meals are eating outside in resturaunts or wherever he eats at. I think by looking at the content in my fridge, if anyone else has the same amount of food as I do, shows that maybe americans tend to have a lot of frozen foods that can be kept in the fridge for a long amount of time such as frozen waffles, frozen vegtables, t.v. Dinners, frozen everything! I think this is because of the laziness of americans to actually cook a whole meal from scratch. Everyone does it the easy was of popping things into the microwave. One two three and ready to eat. I personally do not know many people who actually cook meals from scratch besides from my boyfriend's mother who is spanish. I think it is a tradition and common for her to cook her daily rice and beans, fish, and chicken compared to my daily life to frozen peas. She does not work and spends most of her time at home, but not everyone is lucky like my boyfriend to have a mother who loves to cook huge amount of meals for the family. Another thing that my fridge may say amount how people buy food in America may be the fact that people tend to buy foods that they may sometimes leave in the fridge till they grow mold and eventually needs to be thrown away. In America, people who are at least living over the poverty line probably most of the time buy foods that they don't actually really end up eating and if they do cook it most people tend to waste food and even over flow there plate and not put the amount they can actually consume which results in perfectly good wasted food. Although my fridge may not contain a lot of foods it still can show how people deal with their food on a daily bases.

This is a picture of my fridge. I eat the frozen peas so you even though its on the list it is not in this picture. This picture when i saw it made me laugh because it somewhat embarrassing on how empty my fridge is. And I also put a picture up of whats in my cabinet so that I can show that even if my fridge is completely empty my cabinet is somewhat full and that there is a a few things I would eat that is in the cabinet.






1 comment:

Juggleandhope said...

Chloe,

I wonder if you should indulge your cooking skills and obvious real appreciation for food more. Now would be a good time to set habits that could resist college's mindless cafeteria gluttony.

The fridge picture was pretty extreme.