And it’s filled with death.
Dead soup, dead bowls of spaghetti, dead half eaten yogurts, dead crystallized jam, dead chinese food, and dead produce.
Dead produce, however, represents a bigger failure.
A failure in a quest for healthy eating.
Salads never made, vegetables never served for dinner, oranges that, while they looked juicy at the store, have turned out to be little rind covered balls of sawdust.
I really do try.
Every trip to the grocery store I buy fresh fruits and veggies with the intention of consuming every bit of them.
So where does it all break down?
I blame the produce drawer of death.
First of all, there are two drawers - one that says “moist cold” and one that says “vegetables and fruit”.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what is supposed to go into the “moist cold” one if it isn’t vegetables and fruit.
Secondly, the drawers are tinted like sunglasses. Meaning you cannot clearly see what is going on in there. Unless you open them constantly, stuff is pretty sure to be going round the bend.
Thirdly, the produce drawers are all the way at the bottom. I practically have to get down on my hands and knees to even get access to them.
Talk about out of sight out of mind.
So what I need is...
Drumroll please...
A new refrigerator that has the produce drawers right smack dab at eye level.
With clear plastic that one can actually see through.
I am absolutely, stupendously sure that this will solve all of my fridge death problems and we will eat healthy evermore.
And, I won’t have to clean the fridge this year for company.
Are you listening, dear?
Epilogue:
A year has come and gone since I wrote that and I still have my cruddy old fridge and yes, I still plan to clean it before my big Christmas Party. I got started in a small way tonight. When I opened my produce drawers, this is what I found:
Tonight, funeral services were conducted for two heads of lettuce, some grapes, green onions and a desiccated lemon.
These grapes are both dried up and moldy - pick your poison...
I assure you, this lettuce smells every bit as delicious as it looks.....
This poor lettuce never even made it out of the plastic wrap....
My husband swears that, as I stroll through the produce aisle at the store, all the fruits and vegetables recoil in horror when they see me coming. Like the little fish killier girl in "Finding Nemo"
Sigh.
New Years' Resolution number one: stopping killing lettuces.
Comments