Are You Gonna Eat Down Your Fridge or What?
Come on, you know you want to. Hell, don’t you NEED to?
I’m talking about using up what you’ve squirreled away in the fridge, freezer and cabinets and embarking on an eye-opening kitchen adventure. I’m talking about Eating Down the Fridge.
Translated, the EDF means no food shopping for a week — or least that’s the goal.
Yes, it means you can shop before the challenge begins — this isn’t supposed to be torture, after all — but perhaps just the basics so you can appreciate what you already have on hand.
During previous EDFs (this is the third such challenge, but the first in the True/Slant space), readers sent e-mail, panicking over the rules & regs and whether they had what it takes to make it through the week.
First thing’s first: THERE ARE NO RULES. Or regs. The goal is to challenge yourself, not to make yourself (or your family) miserable. If you forget to buy milk and suddenly run out, for example, you know what you need to do.
Next thing: Be kind to yourself. If a week seems like a tall order, then try half a week. If life has other plans for you that week, don’t worry; join us next quarter. You are the best judge of what is and isn’t possible.
So, are you in or what? Sign up by this Friday, Oct. 3, and I’ll add your name to the growing True/Slant EDF Honor Roll. Next week, we’ll have dispatches all week long from fellow EDFers in different parts of the country, including Fairbanks, Alaska; Portland, Ore. and Syracuse, N.Y. (And yes, I’m still looking for at least one more guest blogger to join our ranks.)
P.S. For peer support, check out the EDF Facebook Group.
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Vodka, frozen corn, pizza, ice cream, a few biology experiments, slathered in condiments.
Yum!
Caitlin, do you remember the George Carlin sketch when he looks in the fridge and identifies something as “meat cake?”
This is so ironic–the salad that I packed for lunch today is a random assortment of leftovers that I threw over some lettuce in an attempt to do exactly what you describe. I stopped short of including the fuzzy peas I found lurking in a far corner. If I sign up, do I have to shop before Friday? Because Saturday is my usual shopping day, and if I don’t restock my staples soon my diet for this sort of challenge would be really funky.
Turi, As I mentioned in my post, there are no rules or regs. If Saturday is your usual shop, then go, but perhaps shop with the EDF in mind and not load up as if a storm is coming. You get the idea. Send an e-mail (contact info in the post) w/ your city & state, and I’ll include you on the EDF Honor Roll.
Count me in, this is an easy one, I generally do my week’s shopping on Saturday and shop for the week, I hate shopping for groceries and spend Sunday’s cooking for the week (for both me and the dogs)
don’t think we could really put us on the honor roll, but our corporate communications folks put a “green tip o’ the week” on our intranet, and i suggested EDF to them. it’s up there, right on the front page of our intranet, now, linking to your original post this time around. maybe next time we can do it more widespread and get folks to sign up internally…
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