I'm Turning into my Mother-in-Law!

[canyonwalker]

People often joke that they're turning into their mother. I feel like I'm turning into my mother-in-law! And the issue is leftovers. The other night I packed away the remnants of dinner in the fridge and marveled at how full it was:



The shelves are not only full back to front, but containers are double and triple stacked in many places.

This makes me feel like my MIL because her refrigerator is always ridiculously full. For years it's just been her and FIL in the house. Their kids all moved out years ago. Yet they have a large refrigerator that's always stuffed.

For years when I've visited their house I've wondered about how two people could possibly eat their way through that much of a stash before it all rotted. Their fridge is bigger than the one my parents had when I was a kid, and fuller than I ever remember seeing it, too, and our family was 6 people. They're just two empty-nesters.

Well, we're just two empty-nesters, and now we're like them.

Comments

[stinaleigh]

So have you answered the question of how to eat all that before it goes bad? 😄

[canyonwalker]

It turns out it just takes focus. When the fridge is full of leftovers and other things that will turn bleh in a few days you choose meals by asking yourself, "What can I finish up?" I did this the very next night and knocked out two containers plus half of a third. Hawk knocked out one or two, as well.

Of course, that wasn't even half the leftovers in the picture but it was good start. We knocked out two more containers later in the week and will hopefully finish the rest by this weekend— just in time, perhaps, to fill up the newly available space with a pan of lasagna!