I live in a group home. There are three of us. We each have our own room but there is only one fridge. There’s a chest freezer in the basement, but it gets filled pretty quickly. Plus I hate going down the basement stairs. Up the basement stairs I’m fine but I always get nervous going down.
Anyway. I have a very thin bottom shelf about two egg cartons high and the veggie and fruit drawers on the bottom. It’s a decent amount of space but I have no room for milk or large gallon drinks of any kind. I got milk today and had to put it in the fridge door on the bottom.
I also have to limit the fresh stuff I get. And the frozen. I get half the freezer( on the fridge not the chest freezer) and that’s all full up. I want to have easy to make cool meals for when it’s hot out, but that takes up a lot of space, too. I kind of am restricted in regards to variety because I have so little space and I definitely can’t meal prep.
I miss having an entire fridge all to myself. That’s the only thing about the boy’s place that’s better than being at home. A single fridge for a single person/family.
I filled up one drawer with chicken leg quarters that I’m going to be cooking this weekend. The other has apples and oranges that I don’t eat fast enough so I need to refrigerate them so they don’t go bad as quickly, plus it has some Rana ravioli which I love to pieces. No other ravioli is as good even if this is a little more expensive. I get two meals out of each bag so it’s not that bad.
Of course I cook so I kind of took up half the cabinet space. There are plastic shelves down in the basement for other pantry items. Though honestly I’d like a cabinet with doors up in the dining room for our snacks. Maybe I’ll save up and get one I dunno. While I’m at it why not buy a mini fridge? Because that’s expensive when you only have $130 to work with each month, that’s why not.
Oh well, I’ll deal with it. It’s just annoying, that’s all.
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