Well, that was a barrel of fun.

[Niagara]

36. It really depends on who's house it is

My client overbuys food. She doesn't look in the fridge to see what she already has and doesn't look at the expiration dates. She goes by her previous grocery list and so she overbuys. It's deli style tuna, deli style roasted salmon, deli boiled eggs and it all just gets jammed into the fridge without any type of order or most importantly expiration dates.

I feel like it's my duty to keep her safe from getting sick from bad or spoiled food. About 3 weeks ago she gave me permission to trash what I felt that needed to go and it was an insane amount of expired food that I trashed. She uses 3 full sized pull out drawers in her fridge, the rest of the food in the fridge is other members of the household items.

I placed items that need to eaten in certain order in all 3 drawers with the first drawer being "eat first" drawer and the second drawer being "eat second" and then the third drawer is "you've got some time yet".

The last time I wanted to go through her fridge she didn't want me to. She has days like that and that's okay. I'll try to sweet talk her the next time.


In my secondary fridge, I use several of those plastic soda can holders on the top shelf. I store block cheese, shredded cheese, cottage cheese and pepperoni, things like that. Super easy to see and it doesn't get "lost" in the fridge being placed in the soda can holders.


The main fridge is the disaster area but it's not where the majority of my food goes. Also leftovers goes in this fridge inside lidded containers and I call "science experiments" that I have to clean out. I don't know why anyone saves foo that they don't eat but there we have it. LOL!


Yes, Diabetes is quite a challenge with the glucose levels. I remember a few times when I was a kid and my mom was face down on the floor from low glucose. Quite frightening to witness as a kid.

Whew!