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To put the fucking lettuce in the freezer?

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VivaLeBeaver · 28/10/2012 13:12

Our frost free fridge is an arse. As is dh. Between the two of them I'm getting pissed off.

Stuff at the back of the fridge gets frozen, no idea why. The fridge itself isn't icy.

Anyway, I wanted a bacon butty. I only bought the bacon this morning. I've found it in the fridge, not only at the back but stood up on end so the flat surface is totally pressed against the wall. Bacon is a frozen lump.

Dd says that dh did it on purpose. After questioning he's admitted it, to teach me a lesson as he says sometimes when I put stuff in the fridge his food gets pushed to the back and freezes. I've pointed out I don't do it on purpose, if he didn't fill the fridge with stuff like cabbages and cauliflowers which would be fine in the cupboard he could put the bloody salad in the salad drawer and the fridge wouldn't be rammed.

I think he's been an immature dick and now I'm tempted to stoop to his level and put the lettuce in the freezer.

I've still not had any lunch and am hungry and cranky now.

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Crikeyblimey · 28/10/2012 13:56

Depends how long before you use them. Even dry and warm they aren't going to disintegrate in a week.

Shouldn't keep eggs or tomatos in the fridge either.

Nor cheese really but few of us have a cool pantry to keep it in anymore.

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VivaLeBeaver · 28/10/2012 13:57

I ended up having to microwave the bacon to defrost it.

When I was a kid my mum never used to put veg in the fridge, we had a veg rack in the utility room. We actually have a Victorian pantry with a cold shelf, pantry is unheated so cooler than the kitchen and on the marble shelf would be cool. But no, he insists its got to be in the fridge.

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OHforDUCKScake · 28/10/2012 14:49

Our fridge freezer did this, we used to have to chip a huge chunk of ice off the back once a fortnight. I had to keep turning it down, eventually the stuff in the front and in the door wasnt cold enough and kept going off so we ditched it for fear of food poisoning.

You're DP was being an arse all he had to do is ask you not to push his stuff to the back!

maddening · 28/10/2012 14:49

If you're fridge shopping there are some lovely big larder style fridges (would love one but our house is too tiny)

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VivaLeBeaver · 28/10/2012 16:13

I can't fit a larder fridge in either sadly.

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StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 28/10/2012 16:17

if its a frost free fridge and isnt icing up then its quite normal that if anything is left touching the back wall it freezes, something to do with the air circulation in a frost free being hindered. I just got a new one and read in the booklet to keep food off the back wall. so turn it up if you need but leave a gap at the back. HTH

BoffinMum · 28/10/2012 16:21

I too would have cracked and frozen his lettuce, I think!Wink

socharlotte · 28/10/2012 17:30

you both sound too immature to be parents imo

EuroShagmore · 28/10/2012 17:35

Our fridge freezer does this too.

Your husband is an arse by the way.

ScaryBeardyDeadyman · 28/10/2012 17:42

I think you maybe need separate fridges. Then when things calm down a bit you can look at sharing a fridge again. Maybe a shelf each to start with, and then mingling your respective foodstuffs. I hear that relate hold seminars on this.

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VivaLeBeaver · 28/10/2012 17:51

I am normally quite mature and middle aged, have a sensible job and everything. Sometimes though I have an urge to act like a 12yo. I do manage to suppress it. Grin

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VivaLeBeaver · 28/10/2012 17:53

Separate fridges sounds good though. His will have to be in the outhouse though. He can trek out there for his vegetables, hummus, soya milk, etc.

I will fill my fridge with cheese, meat, wine and chocolate.

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ZeldaUpNorth · 28/10/2012 19:18

Is the freezer under the fridge? My fridge and freezer have seperate dials, mine does that when the freezer is accidently turned up (packing the top freezer drawer turns the dial by accident) HTH

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VivaLeBeaver · 28/10/2012 19:45

No, freezer is in a separate room. I'm going to investigate the fridge tomorrow. Apparently they have little drainage holes which need poking out with a pipe cleaner at regular intervals.

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cumfy · 28/10/2012 21:24

Ahhh fridge wars

I used to share with a vegetarian lawyer who used to line up her yogurts all along the front of the shelves and claim that she was using her half of the fridge; the front half HmmGrin.

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VivaLeBeaver · 28/10/2012 21:33

Cumfy, I think that's pretty much what my dh is doing! Grin. And all the bloody salad drawer.

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Mia4 · 28/10/2012 23:14

Can't you put all the veg on one shelf and meat on another? If it's that big a deal? If he's filling with loads of stuff then maybe he should do a mid week shop to top up on veg rather then filling the fridge completely.

Your fridge may need defrosting-odd as it sounds since it's not a freezer- the drainage pipe may have got iced inside. If you get it to room temperature, then it should go back to normal.

pippop1 · 28/10/2012 23:35

If you put the food in a tupperware box and the box touches the back of the fridge then it won't freeze. Problem solved. You don't even really need a lid on the box. Marital harmony restored.

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VivaLeBeaver · 28/10/2012 23:46

Maybe I could line the back of the fridge with plywood? Grin

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pippop1 · 28/10/2012 23:56

Bad idea. I don't think it will work properly then. Could you buy yourself a mini fridge from Argos?

Naghoul · 29/10/2012 07:41

Wrap all his food in bubble wrap? and Sellotape

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VivaLeBeaver · 30/10/2012 19:29

Ffs.

I've just found two nearly full bottles of diet coke hidden behind the kitchen bin.

Apparently I piss him off by having so much diet coke in the cupboard. Two bottles is hardly a cupboard full. I pointed out I'd have less diet coke if he didn't keep hiding it. I keep buying more as I can't find the bloody stuff.

Never mind a separate fridge, I need a separate kitchen!

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applecrumple · 30/10/2012 19:41

Pmsl at this thread Grin

fluffacloud · 30/10/2012 19:53

I'd be cleaning the toilet with his toothbrush by now Grin

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