{"id":538,"date":"2017-03-12T19:24:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T23:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2017-03-12T19:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T23:24:27","slug":"why-my-refrigerator-stays-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Why My Refrigerator Stays Bare"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Compared to most refrigerators I see, my refrigerator is pretty bare. \u00a0I have seen people who live alone with 2 refrigerators full of food. \u00a0I have seen families of 7 with refrigerators that are not stuffed. \u00a0No matter the number of people in your home, your refrigerator can still be stocked with what you need without excess.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons I keep my refrigerator this way.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0We eat leftovers. \u00a0We eat a meal and if there are leftovers, we eat them for lunch, dinner or\u00a0sometimes breakfast! \u00a0We eat what we make.<\/li>\n
  2. I don’t mindlessly buy a bunch of food. \u00a0I look ahead at the week and know when I’ll be cooking. \u00a0I look in the freezer, refrigerator, and pantry to see what food needs to be eaten and base the decisions about my meals on what I have.<\/li>\n
  3. I don’t like “losing” things in my refrigerator. \u00a0If I have too much, I can’t see what I have, therefore I don’t end up using what I have.<\/li>\n
  4. I hate wasting food. \u00a0Yep, I channel my grandmother when I save a little bit of food to eat the next day. \u00a0Food is wasted when you don’t eat or freeze what you’ve made.<\/li>\n
  5. It is much easier to clean a refrigerator that is not overflowing with food, condiments, and beverages.<\/li>\n
  6. I am thankful for the food I have. \u00a0That may sound odd, but if you have ever lived with scarcity, you know you appreciate what you have so much more. \u00a0I don’t take the food in my refrigerator for granted and am grateful for what it represents.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Look in your refrigerator. \u00a0Are you constantly buying too much? \u00a0What can you use this week in the meals you are preparing? \u00a0What did you mindlessly buy that you will never use?<\/p>\n

    Pay attention to your buying and consuming habits. \u00a0If you do, you will save time, food and money. \u00a0A win-win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Compared to most refrigerators I see, my refrigerator is pretty bare. \u00a0I have seen people who live alone with 2 refrigerators full of food. \u00a0I have seen families of 7 with refrigerators that are not stuffed. \u00a0No matter the number of people in your home, your refrigerator can still be stocked with what you need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}