The day I found a Tupperware from last Thanksgiving behind the crisper drawer

I was cleaning out my fridge last Sunday after the power went out for 6 hours, and I pulled out the crisper drawer to find a container of cranberry sauce from November. It had turned into this weird pinkish gel with fuzz on top, and I just sat there staring at it realizing I never actually check the back corners. I think I waste like $40 a month on produce that gets buried and forgotten. Anyone else have a system for not hiding food back there?

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sethr1112d ago

Man, I did the exact same thing last spring. Found a bag of baby carrots from like February that had basically turned into carrot soup in the bottom of the drawer. What finally worked for me was buying those clear acrylic bins at the dollar store. I put all the produce in them and keep the crisper drawer itself empty. Now I can see everything when I open the fridge, and nothing gets buried behind something else. Also started labeling the bins with a dry erase marker for what goes in each one, it sounds extra but it saved me from another science experiment.

wyattmitchell12d ago

Oh man, @sethr11 gets it. Clear bins are the only thing that saved my fridge too. I bought a set of those cheap acrylic ones and now I can actually see what's in there. Before that I was losing whole heads of lettuce in the back abyss. The dry erase marker idea is genius actually, I might steal that. I also started putting the newest stuff in the back and pushing older stuff forward so I eat it first. It's not a perfect system but at least I'm not finding relics from last Thanksgiving anymore.