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Am I the only one with moldy food in my fridge..... My mother will be so disgusted if she knew... o

Zed

Nope, you're not the only one. God, the things I find past their best before date oops

No, I threw out 2lb of mould just yesterday. It was packaged as mozzarella.

Occasionally I find a mouldy fruit or vegetable (can't determine what it once was) stuck in the corner of the vegetable drawers in a plastic bag. And I do mean stuck.

Never really had this happen in the UK as refrigerator was much smaller therefore had to utilize all available space and there were no convenient hidey holes for the mouldy. In fact it was so small it wasn't even called a refrigerator, it was called a fridge.

Ah go thought the fridge evey garbage day to catch any of that .
And we always buy item from the back of the shelves as they have the longest * fresh date *those night stackers move eveything forward and put new behind .

They must be overpaid round your way. Round here they couldn't give a toss and throw the new stuff on top of the old so if you really root through the shelves you can find genuine antiques.... :roll:

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Not often, mainly stuff like strawberries that didn't get eaten because they were being saved for someone who forgot about them (they go off so fast). But it's not for want of trying -it worries me how long it takes stuff to go mouldy over here :o

I have mouldy food in my fridge. It's a nice ponky roquefort. D

Yum yum!

I have a Foodsavor™, no rotten food in my fridge roll
Strawberries are wonderful, last for weeks rather than days.

We do that too. I learnt the 'rotation' trick working the rounds at Sainsburys a few years ago.

And oddly enough that's what I do in my fridge - move all the old stuff to the back until it physically asks to be let out.

Still, there's nothing much more disgusting than cleaning it up.

We usually eat whatever produce/meat/cheese is in the fridge before buying more.

That's a Viz top tip if ever I saw one :lol:

lol

mm? What is a foodsavor?

We buy mainly organic so most of our produce is already bad by the time we've taken it home..... roll Were going to go unorganic and just peel the top layer away. )

Vacuum system. But doesn't it squish the strawberries?

I must admit, that I only ever buy strawberries the same day that we are going to eat them. I hate the ones that are picked early.

I did buy a vacuum thingy in the US, but didn't really use it religiously. Now I don't really see the point (for our family). I can buy a Costco pack of chicken breasts, but this only lasts for 2 or 3 meals, so something quite manageable in the fridge or freezer.

It's ingrained into American culture to bulk buy - but why? You never know what you have and end up throwing half of it away. It's not like the shops are hard to get to.

more mold than food in our fridge roll