Anybody want to play this game?

[Whatwaswrongwiththatusername]

Anybody fancy a game of "what the fuck do I chuck out of my freezer to make space for the food that needs freezing, pre and post Xmas"?

There's also the sister game of "check and throw away all the open jars of crap on the 35 shelves of condiments" fridge game.

Personally I think if I could play the fridge game I'd need to play less of the freezer game. But I think I'd rather put environmentally friendly metal straws in my eyes and face slam the table.

I'm not even going to think about the Salad Drawers of Death. Maybe I'll just be able to pour the fruit n veg soup down the sink if I leave it long enough.

I will start the freezer game by first (attempting to open the drawers that I might've already broken this festive season but would not admit to) declaring that I will hunt out any remaining black, frozen bananas that I never get round to using to make banana bread.

This is why I love my neighbour and his son. They gladly and gratefully accept anything whenever I have a freezer clear out! 😁

Ooh that's a bit lucky. I'm not sure many people would enjoy the freezer burned bags of fruit and prawns and frozen clumps of veg etc that have been in there, many of which possibly still unopened, since I had to buy a new fridge/freezer. Which, I'd like to say was recently, and in my head it still is, but in reality now pre-dates the pandemic and actually could've been at a random point in the last decade.

I'd like to blame my slovenly behaviour and appalling freezer (and my collection of random, global condiments fizzing away) on several chronic health conditions, but...umm...but, actually, yeah, I just will.

Worn myself out thinking about all the things that need to be done but won't get done. Actually think I deserve a lie down for a while.

Go to fridge. Open bin bag. Decant 35 jars of condiments into said bag. Put in bins outside hoping that no one sees you're not recycling them.

Buy new condiments. Use a small amount of them over Christmas, then leave in fridge until next year.

Rinse and repeat annually.

Salad drawers of death 😂so true

Get rid of all those foods you're not really keen on but keep because you feel bad throwing food away! You're never going to eat them.

Anything that remains, make a list and a plan of when it will be eaten. If you can't plan it into a meal get rid of that too.

I played this game last week and won 😉

This is why people have in-laws - you invite them round to dinner and feed them all the fridge crap, leaving you with the double bonus of an empty fridge freezer and in-laws who will never want to come back.

Ta-daaaa.

Thank you op, just thank you...until this very moment, dh and I were convinced we were the only people in the world that live like this and we felt shame and disgrace. Going to show him your op.

I can sometimes clear the fruit and veg drawer, and dh is good at the other shelves... shamefully, our main tactic is to wait till DM or DMIL visit and they do it for us in sheer disgust...!