You Are what you Eat?

you are so organized for a bachelor! lol.

I haven't gone serious food shopping in a few weeks, so my pantry and fridge is pretty bare

You set the bar way too high, Ducman! No one is going to want to post now!

You're very organized!

My refrigerator just got filled today, and it looks like a food fight happened in there. My pantry looks the same. You'll have to take my word for it-I eat and I'm messy.

should see mine TRUE bachelor (rette) fridge - there is probably a water pitcher, nearly empty bottle of ketchup, a bottle of mustard and some soy sauce

My fridge is crammed full of fruits and veggies right now, along with some juice, yogurt and general condiments - mostly salad dressings. Right now there is a pound of bacon in there for those days when I just want some FAT. My freezer has loads of veggies from the garden, meat wrapped in 2 person packages, and frozen juices. Don't have a single "TV dinner" type meal in my house.

I have a couple of pantries. They have canned foods, pet food, whole wheat pastas, soft drinks, rice, etc. No processed food in there either.

My garage fridge has the beer, along with the kegerator in our sun room. The garage fridge also has the whole watermelon that doesn't fit inside my kitchen fridge.

I cook pretty much everything from scratch so I have raw ingredients. If you are what you eat, then I'm certainly not processed!

Actually, that looks like a pretty well stocked fridge and pantry for a bachelor. When DH was single his fridge generally had a couple shelves FULL of beer and a few seriously ancient cartons of leftover Chinese food. And maybe a bottle of ketchup that somebody bought God knows when. Of course, he rarely needed to eat at home. He came over to my apartment to do that.

Rather than bother with uploading a picture...

I've got blueberries, peaches, pears, yogurt, hummus, green tea, milk, and a half empty can of cat food in my fridge. In my "pantry" I've got a box of shredded wheat.

I have an excuse, though... I just moved.

Even though we have a kegerator amd a beer closet ( 'the cellar'), our fridge is still half full of beer. But that's ok. Otherwise, there's bread, veggies, lemons, condiments, soda & sparkling water, Brita pitcher, tuna cans, veggie 'bologna', cheese, vegan 'cheese', milk and soymilk, probably some leftovers of some sort, etc. I'll post a pic tomorrow of our fridge back in the apartment... some friends took care of Genever while we went out of town, and had some fun. I can't find the pics of it on my PC, so I asked the friend to send them to me if she could find them...

So... am I a vegetable?

I have never seen such a neat guy.

Holy cow!

Holy crap you are neat!

I have 3 kids, a hubby and me so my cupboards and fridge are always a disaster since someone is always rooting around for something.

Couldn't tell you what's all in there It's a surprise everytime I open it!

Good grief! You are a neat guy!

I'm at work, so no pictures. Our fridge has a ton of vegetables and leftovers (soup, tomato sauce, etc.) Condiments on the door and in the fridge. Freezer is full...and not half as well organized as yours.

The basement pantry has jars of lime pickles and bread and butter pickles as well as cat food and cans of tomatoes, red beets, etc. And the basement freezer is pretty well-stocked with vegetables from the garden, boneless/skinless chicken breasts, blueberries, applesauce, muffins and yeast rolls, and some puff pastry from Trader Joe's. Oh, and two 20+ pound turkeys.

You know, I need to use one of those turkeys within the next month or two. Anybody want to come to my house for a turkey dinner?? Please??

OK, I know this thread is a week old, but I said I would post pics of what our friends did to our fridge when we were away and they were taking care of Genever. They lived close to us before we bought our house, and they like G-cat, so it worked out well. I couldn't find pics on my PC but finally got them from the friend. And yes, we've asked them to catsit even after they did this:





We were quite surprised by that but had a good laugh. They even wrapped the eggs in foil inside the wrapped carton!

Another time they were catsitting, we were in Vegas for BF's birethday, and they blew up balloons and filled the tub up to the top of the shower curtain with ballons. That was pretty good too. They just bought a house near us, so we're neighbors yet again! So maybe they'll end up catsitting yet again... maybe..

Yeah.... Maybe later I can add some pics... but my refrigerator and pantry are no where near that pretty!!

@Erica; that is hilarious!!! Totally something I would do!

Ok; my little one fell back to sleep so I'll play along... (it's more interesting than scrubbing my bathroom so why not? ) I must have missed this thread before.

The refrigerator & freezer. The empty shelves on the door of the freezer are where DH's ice packs normally go. The empty space on the fridge door is where all his water bottles go too. Normally the milk doesn't go there too. He needs his own!! As you can see we have way too many condiments. Not only do the fill the door but also a good portion of the top shelf. The rest is yogurts I think. hehe. I've got a lot of leftovers in there right now. And extra drinks since we had company for a few days. The bottom shelf in the freezer (above the drawer thing) is still full of mostly zucchini and summer squash bread. Behind the ice cream are all the peaches I put up for winter. I need a chest freezer!


Pantry #1. Can you tell I have a toddler? Once upon a time both pantries were perfectly organized. Every item had its own perfect place. Then I had a child... hehe


Pantry #2. Also the game closet and where we store the bags for cleaning the litter box (which is in the laundry room, where I was standing to take the pics). From the looks of things my toddler has been in this one!

Well, I'm not posting a picture.

But the contents of my fridge are as follows: eggs, butter, milk, cheese, assorted condiments (especially MUSTARD which I'm addicted to; food is just a mustard vehicle for me lol!), some lunch meat, a rotisserie chicken from grocery store deli. That's all.

My freezer has ice, alcohol, a frozen pizza thing that's been in there for months, and a loaf of bread because I don't go through one quickly enough on my own - except I keep forgetting to take slices out so there's never bread when I want a sammich!

My "pantry" is pathetic, two small cabinets above my stove, and has the following: gluten-free spagetti (I don't have celiac disease but a friend who does gave it to me), various campbell's soups to be used in recipes I haven't made yet , garlic salt and garlic powder, Adobe seasoning, some jello packets, umm (I'm working from memory), a few cans of vegetables: corn, diced tomatoes, peas I think, enchilada sauce. That's about it.

I'm a little embarrassed that the bachelor's fridge looks better than the bachelorette's fridge on this thread

Oh well. I will have a much larger, nicer kitchen in my next apartment, so maybe that will encourage me to cook/learn how to cook? ... ? maybe? eh?

OMG! Your fridge contents are just like ours! Lean Cuisine meals with taquitos (or are they tornadoes?), Reddi-Whip (for my Weight Watcher's desserts. I eat the diet meals as I'm a diabetic, and I know they are healthy, and I'm too lazy to cook most of the time), spray butter, etc. However, being a Yankee, I don't have grits in my pantry (that last part of the sentence must be the title of a blues song somewhere...).

I love the pantry, BTW, and am very jealous. Mine's under the stairs, and hard to walk into unless you're short, like me.

My fridge:

Skim & whole milk; liquid coffee creamer (DH); orange juice; Diet Pepsi (me); butter (spray & regular); leftover restaurant meals from Friday (meatloaf, pasta, and Black Forest cake), apples, (DH), carrots, salsa, ketchup, mustard, mayo, bottle of white wine, beer (both home-brewed--DH), green beans, fat-free yogurt (me), eggs, bacon, something Jimmy Dean (all DH).

My freezer (in the fridge and in the garage):

Frozen peas, corn, carrots, diced bell pepper/onion mix; tornadoes, Lean Cuisine/Weight Watcher's, cooked shredded beef barbecue I made last week; onion soup mix (for the beef--I buy in bulk, and freeze the envelopes); 2 beef roasts (BOGO!); 2 pork loin roasts (DITTO); more tornadoes; chicken breasts; pork chops (DH); frozen black raspberries from my garden.

My pantry:

Lots and lots of various dried pastas, 6 jars of spaghetti sauce, 12 cans of mushrooms, spices/herbs, tortilla chips (DH), canned veggies, canned chicken a la king, cereal, flour, sugar, etc., chocolate cake mix/frosting, canned tuna/ham, canned cat food (yum!), jarred red peppers, various teas (me), Crystal Light (me), olive oil, vegetable oil, canned baked beans, cat treats.