Cleaning Out The Fridge

About once a month I clear out the old leftovers. And about once a season I clean the fridge completely. The worst stuff is leftover meats (like pot roast) that have fuzzy smelly mold on them. Unfortunately this smell sticks to plastic lids. I've developed a method using a ziploc bag, baking soda and cinnamon that helps cover up the smell on the lid. There's often onions that are growing "wild" in the back, fruits that have "melted" into a brown and green mushy thing, lettuce that is dissolving into a yellow mess in its plastic, and several sticky spots of all sorts of colors on every shelf (thanks kids for cleaning up your spills - NOT! - LOL) For small amounts of leftover items I use butter dishes. That way if it looks like it's mutated into something unpleasant I just throw the whole thing away without having to open it! Oh I've also taken to labeling sauce packages (you know the ones from Fast Food places) with dates so months later I can throw out old ones. ~Tink

With me its usually veg and fruit, I buy it use a bit of it put the rest in the fridge and forget about it for a few weeks. Sauces is another, and tubs of coleslaw and dips. I bought some cherry tomatoes the other week and put them in the fridge, unbeknown to me at some point my 2 year old daughter turned the fridge up to full power while I was not looking, when later that day I went to have some of my tomatoes, I was dismayed to find that they were like marbles. My daughter thought it was ace and was sucking on one for hours!!

Its scary what lurks in the back of the fridge. I try to keep up with mine. It truly is amazing the stuff that gets lost in there. I did the dirty deed the other day, nothing too surprising there, hehe.

Oh boy, one of those things on my list of things to do that i hate. and i hate it because i don't like to find all of those fuzzy suprises!! oh so gross. and with 6 people in the house trust me there is always something in there that i don't want to see!! i try to clean mine out every other month, but thank you Lord for me sister who doesn't mind going in there!!

Most of the time all there is in my fridge is a lot of rotten and moldy stuff. We don't clean out the fridge till it is time to get new stuff, and even then all we do is only take out enough stuff so there's room for the new stuff. I say we because I live with my "grandma" and papou. They hardly ever put stuff away or clean out the fridge, and I don't see any point in cleaning it out till we need it. Except when people are coming over(which is hardly ever) my "grandma" will hover over me and tell me what to and not to take out. I believe that only happened once since I have been here, but it was still so annoying. There was this one time my grandma made beans and they stayed in there for 3 months or so. I had to flush then down the toilet because my "grandma" couldn't do it without throwing up.

i really dont clean my fridge to often because the way my kids and i eat,not to mention my friends stopping by for a bite all the time,there's usually not much left in there from shopping day to shopping day

ewwwwww I hate cleaning out my fridge. I have to buy new tupperware all the time cause i find grossness and just throw the whole thing. Id tell you the worst thing I found but till this day I dont know what it was. All the was left was a mass of green goo and fur growing. It got wedge in the back and forgotten for way too long cause I couldnt get it out lol.

I once found a rat hiding in mine! Just kidding. No I also found some left overs in there. But it's hard to find left overs in my frigde. I almost always eat them, and they are very tasty.

wow what a waste of food but that thing really happens sometimes. Anyway, i hate wasting anything so I barely keep leftovers or buy too much...just enough. Usually I find time to give it to those in need and i always feel great after. by the way i love cleaning the fridge..consider it a therapy.

My hubby has a different way of cleaning the fridge.. He always want it clean and tidy .. cleaning day must have a disinfectant so to make sure that no germs and free from unusual old smell

Wow! I've found similar in mine, like old apples forgotten about, watermelon, old milk no one noticed. Ohh man, let me see what else, old food containers, really old food items that I never knew existed. It is a grueling task, but I still have yet to finish, and then I have to do the freezer. I found frozen french toast sticks from 3 years ago!!

I clean mine periodically but my husband eats most of the leftovers for lunch the next day, so I don't find too many 'surprises' in mine. If I do, it's usually a partial bag of celery or that sort of thing. Occasionally the fixings from a cucumber salad (I say that because I think I have some of that in there now - thanks for this reminder!).

I regularly clean the fridge twice a month to see what things are needed to be bought for the next trip to the supermarket. I also like organizing by having a uniform stackable containers wherein I can put small things in which, usually gets lost over big items.

I clean mine once a week but I am a chef and a clean freak so I tend to enjoy it!

I clean my refrigerator out every two weeks right before I do my grocery shopping. There is hardly any leftovers in our house. I guess thats a good thing.LOL

well i never cleans my friedge my mother cleans it and our friedge is very short rather than of urs.

Most often i clean out my fridge after grocery shopping. I take all the left over food out and throw it away and start new. I hate wasting but sometimes you just can't eat all of the left overs. I have found some bad fruit (most recently a quart of strawberries that had seen better days), 3 week old spaghetti, things of that nature.

Last night I was going through my bake ware cupboard and freaking out because I couldn't find my loaf pan. It was really annoying me then I twigged, it was in the bottom of the fridge with something my hubby had cooked in it and put the leftovers and the loaf pan in the fridge and forgotten about them. I grabbed it from the fridge and thought to myself I really should clean out the fridge. I'm afraid that is the farthest it went. Maybe this weekend...

HEHE????? In my family is my mother do the housework .But if I find some over dued food I always throw away them .And i also find that clean the fridge throughout is not easy.