Why do certain foods deliberately hide in the back of the fridge?

Ha! I just got a vision of the movie “Logans Run”. Renew! Renew!

Fresh basil (or any herb, really) in my fridge, quickly goes from fluffy, green and inviting to goopy, stew of smelly greenness in no time. They seem to slink away to the far recesses of the fridge to die their nasty death.

@cookieman Spring mix does that to me too!

Out of sight out of mind.

I actually threw out a perfectly good Tupperware lettuce container because it got shoved in the back and turned to goop. No way was I opening that container to dump and clean!

I think it’s similar to the missing sock phenomenon. There is some sort of vortex or magnetic force.

I think it happens more often when refrigerators have a lot of items in them, but maybe not always the case.

I try to eat things quickly, like within 3 days.

Some packaging is just too large and not appealing to eat the same things many days in a row. That’s partly why I don’t shop at stores like Costco.

In my grocery stores it’s difficult to find the square pint size of strawberries, and strawberries go bad so fast. My husband doesn’t eat them, just me. Grapes I can take one group out of the bag in the supermarket and put it in a produce bag and just buy what I want, same with cherries, but not strawberries. It’s a problem.

Cilantro, basil, parsley, all too much in the bunch, so I sometimes try to keep a plant, but they don’t always stay alive long. The smaller amounts sold in fancy packaging are ridiculously expensive.

I sometimes give half to a friend when I have to buy a lot of something.

@janbb It’s because you really don’t want to eat it but you didn’t want to “waste” it when it was fresh.

Too hard to bend over and see what it is, let alone retrieve it. 8)

They probably get pushed there by other more assertive foods, like cheese. Cantaloupe chunks or bottles of flat Sprite stand little chance when up against a good French brie or camembert.

@flutherother That makes so much sense!

FILO First In Last Out

I see them as reminders of being young and full of hope. <sigh>

I have to make a conscious effort to eat the healthy foods. Last night, I pulled out a two week old bag of spinach, that I had opened two weeks ago and then it got pushed back.

Well, my power went out with Milton, so that effectively got rid of anything old in my fridge, because I only bothered the to save the stuff that was unquestionably still edible.

^^ Hope you get it back soon @JLeslie.

I have my electricity back on. It was out from 9:15pm the night of the storm through till 11:00 am the next morning. I had put everything I wanted to save in a cooler with some bags of ice, so no problem saving my food. Mostly condiments and a few frozen items (the frozen are precooked or frozen vegetables, so no raw meat to worry about) and some fridge food like salad items and fresh fruit. Throughout hurricane season I keep very little frozen food, and also have homemade bags of ice so my freezer works less hard and in case I lose electricity. When we saw the hurricane was coming I started eating down the amount of fresh food in my house in case I lost power.