What's in your cupboards?

So last night, I was trying to take a few action shots of food in our fridge.  Kiwi then decided to take some more pictures in the cupboard.  Then I thought it might be fun to compare fridges and cupboards- I've seen it done a few places before, and it's always kind of fun to snoop compare pantries. ;) 

So I present to you our fridge, freezer, and cupboard.  They are in slightly altered states from last night's action photo shoot, but nothing's been added or removed.  Feel free to skip the descriptions and just look at the pictures/post your own pictures, if you are so inclined.

We are currently well stocked in the yogurt, jam/nut butter, and lettuce departments.  Lurking in the back is some month old organic Ragu (oops!) and Archer Farms organic berry applesauce.  The glass container is for walnuts (refridgeration keeps the healthy oils in a more stable state), some fresh cut pineapple, and Brownberry Health Nut bread (which has tiny bits of walnuts in it!).  The middle shelf has some 100 calorie packs of guacamole (perfect for individual sandwiches- the bigger packets always went brown before we could finish them), roasted red pepper hummus, Udos Essential Oil, an open can of Dole tropical mixed fruit, some celery, and a defrosting can of Cascadian Farms juice.  Organic apples, organic free range eggs, and left over chopped onion and peppers from tonight's dinner (homemade pizza).  The bottom right crisper drawer is our beer drawer.

The egg compartment has minced ginger, pesto, and an eye mask.  The top shelf has a wide range of condiments (maple syrup, lemon juice, teriyaki sauce, vinegrette, soy sauce, chocolate syrup, strawberry syrup, more jam), some probiotic capsules, Whole Foods 365 olive oil and Muir Glen ketchup.  The bottom shelf has Archer Farms soymilk and Archer Farms organic cranberry juice.

The freezer is largely stuffed with bags of Cascadian Farms frozen vegetables and frozen fruit, although Sno Pac and 365 Whole Foods are also represented.  There are some Amy's All American veggie burgers up top in front of the Cascadian Farms juice.  You can see a bag of goji berries (which are really tart- anyone with serving suggestions, please send them our way- they've been untouched in the freezer for months now!) and a bottle of tequilla.  Finally, out of sight but not out of mind are the stash of  Amy's burritos that are pushed up against the left freezer wall.

The top shelf of the cupboard has our breadmaker, Organic Weetabix Biscuits, Cascadian Farms granola that is yet to be tried (not my favorite company, but granola makes me a little weak in the knees ;), some different organic oatmeals, the little shelf has shot glasses and a can of salmon for Kiwi.  The next shelf has my tea collection, beans, and more applesauce.  The bottom shelf is corn flakes, more granola, Archer Farms organic fruit strips, canned fruit, and Lundberg rice cakes.

So there you have it!  Some of the companies we buy our food from are more green than others (for example, Stonyfield over Ragu), but living on a limited budget means we often buy the cheap organic brands, like Target's Archer Farms and Whole Foods 365.

Now- what's in your cupboards? :D

Wow, nitedreamer, you and kiwi are well stoked (and I love that you've got your Pyrex containers in your fridge.  Those things rock my socks)!  I'll have to do this again when I get home...but here's the sad little showing for the Huddler office (it's particularly barren because of Thanksgiving coming up.  We've been trying to eat everything in our fridge so we can restock when we get back...).

Here's our freezer to start:

Top left, we have two Blake's All Natural boxed meals.  We're not sure where those came from...  Anyway, next to that is some sourdough bread for making toast, and next to that we have an organic frozen burrito.  But it's not Amy's...sadly.  They're another brand called PJ's Organics.  We'll have to do a taste test with Amy's and see how they stack up.  We also have some Whole Foods 365 popsicles which are always delicious (although not on a chilly day).

Now on to the main compartment of the refrigerator...this is where it gets really pathetic.

In the door, we've got Spectrum Organic Flaxseed Oil, Opta OE organic energy drink, Kombucha Botanica, mayo, butter, and Odwalla and Whole Foods 365 Juice.  Inside the rest of the fridge...we have 3 bottles of Dogfish Head, our water filter, a half drunk bottle of Kombucha Botanica (speaking of which...I think I'll finish that off right now), and some humus.

In our cupbaord...

We've got Seeds of Change microwavable rice, various Whole Foods cereal bars, some other organic bars, Nature's Path Organic Granola Bars (which Deej loves a ton), honey, Wheat Thins, and I think somewhere back there, we've got Nature's Path toaster pastries.

I'll have to take more pictures when it's not right before a holiday....

O.k. this is fun!  Here are my pathetically overstocked pantry and fridge (yah I slack on the getting rid of stuff part!)  I have a lot of good stuff and some well...not so good but, it's all about balance right???

In the pantry I have lots of Kashi products, local honey, lots of Rice Milk for my green tea smoothies, some organic beans, some non-organic canned goods, some bread from our local organic bakery mmmmm, organic oats, organic tomato sauce, Lara bars, organic soup stock, baking goods (although I don't really bake?), Annie's bunny crackers and some other bad items like Pam for the BBQ, Saltines for when I am sick, random dried beans, olive oil etc etc.  Pretty full but a lot of good stuff in there.....

The fridge has some Safeway organic organic juice, yogurt and apple juice, I also see some flax seed, hemp seed and aloe vera juice in there.  I have free run eggs, Greens + which is disgusting but good for you, good ole faithful Pom juice, some organic potatoes and apple sauce and some organic butter. For some mysterious reason there is a ginormous thing of Cheez Whiz but, I swear we don't eat the crap it's probably like 10 years old but never goes bad because it is practically plastic!!!  There is also some Balkan yogurt in there, so Philly cream cheese (oh yeah), I see cheese strings (for my son's lunch), some homemade hummus and that's about the extent of the fridge aside from all the organic fruits and veggies hiding in the bottom. 

That's my story and my cupboards......thanks for making me take a picture of them now I really have to clean them out!!!!

Huddler seems very well hydrated.  PUREShop, I would love to raid your pantry.

Mmmm....these pictures are very inspiring for my next grocery trip!  :)  I could go for some popsicles, granola bars, and bakery bread...

Mine are pretty boring.  We always get our PeaceMeals recipes and then get as many ingredients as possible at the farmer's market, so a big component of the fridge is veggies and such.  Then we got leftovers, milk, coffee, juice, water, beer, root beer, Hansen's (we're well-hydrated too), potatoes, and cherry pie (left over from my office's Thanksgiving pot luck...mmmmm, cherry pie).  I'm big on leftovers.  And a can of cat food.

Freezer doesn't have much - some ice cream, frozen pizzas, sherbet, bread, and artichoke hearts and scallops that didn't all get used in a previous recipe.  And some waffles that have been there for a looooong time.

Cupboards got some cookies, Fiber One breakfast bars (I love those), peanut butter, rice, pasta, couscous, tuna, and so forth.

So nothing particularly interesting.  No fancy organic or otherwise green foodstuffs really, other than the farmers market produce.

So my pantry is not as well stocked as usual (you don't want to know...), I mostly have grains, most of it bulk, organic pasta (behind the flour), beans, lentils, bulgur, cous cous etc.:

My freezer has frozen veggies (most of it organic), boca burgers, salmon burgers, organic pizza, veggie egg rolls, frozen artichokes, pita bread, spouted grain wraps, turkey breasts, shrimp. The meat is lamb and it is raised locally at the university.

Finally my fridge: again, I have a lot of bulk products, so not a lot of brand names here. There are organic eggs and soy milk, whole wheat tortillas, raw milk cheese, a ridiculous amount of different kinds of mustard, home-made marmalades, capers, olives and sun dried tomatoes, veggies, home-made bread etc...

So before I get into the newfangled (meaning freshly stalked) Huddler cupboards...eris, what does kefir taste like?  Do you drink it straight?

Okay, now onto our bulked up kitchenette. 

In our cupboard, we've got some tasty organic snackings.  We've got...some baked Kettle Chips (deej tasted them a little while ago, he says they've got good flavor but the texture is maybe not as lovely), Mary's Gone Crackers Sticks & Twigs, Terra chips, FoodShouldTasteGood chips, some Whole Foods 365 organic tortilla chips and pretzel chips.

In our fridge (no picture) we added some Steaz energy drinks and various kinds of organic yogurt.  We also got some Lundberg Organic Rice Cakes and some kind of whole wheat bread.

And in our freezer...

We're newly stocked with probably 4 different kinds of organic frozen burritos (we might have to do a taste test), Amy's frozen meals, Morningstar veggie corn dogs, Organic Bistro and Kashi organic meals.  And of course, organic popsicles.

Kefir is awesome. You should at least try it once! It tastes pretty much like yogurt and it has probiotics so it's good for you. I either drink it straight, use it in smoothies instead of yogurt or eat it with cereal for breakfast. I like this last option because I find milk too watery for cereal and yogurt too thick so it's a good compromise. I know most people will find this weird but you should try it!

Oh cool!  I definitely will.

There is no way I could post my stuff for you guys.  You guys do such a good job of sticking to your natural paths.  My fridge has several "bad" choices.  We try but don't always succed at buying healthy.  At least I can look to you guys for inspiration.

I'm also very impressed with how clean everyone's shelves are.  Your mothers would be proud of you. LOL!

Kefir is great! I'm from Estonia so we always had Kefir in the fridge. It's hard to find it here. I love to make pancakes (I make my pancakes from scratch) with Kefir, where instead of milk I use Kefir. mmmm yummy!

Haahaaa, me too, too embarassed+ lazy to post pictures here and my mom would sure not approve the contents :-D

 All storage containers/boxes/bags are great for labelling and preparation, but one or two odd size containers is a wasted space begging to be filled!  Drives me over the edge, so to speak! 

Over the years I would find large plastic containers (2 fit nicely on 1 refrigerator shelf) and put pesto, nuts, coffee, marmalade, pizza sauce, pickles or whatever is in small containers in those- instant drawers.

Smaller containers (shoe-box size) is for cereal, rice, pasta. Eggs, crackers, other odd boxes- bread- go in the crisper drawer.  Leftovers/teas usually fill the top shelf.

Hinged plastic containers are ideal for frozen foods.  I bought 9 of those 6" x 6" x 6" containers on sale.  Put 1 or 2 bags of frozen food in each container then 3 stack up in 1 row, then 3 more, then 3 more! Zero wasted space.  No photos handy right now- and 2009 has put a lazy streak in me- too lazy to find the camera!

Okay, so forgive me for not having pics of my fridge on my computer!!  But if I think about it later I may take a couple.  I noticed that we have some of the same foods, like the peanut butter (only I think mine is Smucker's Natural instead of organic), jelly, bread, and yogurt.  We also have a ton of produce at any given time.  We always have organic lettuce, carrots, celery, and grapes. 

In the cupboard, I have a bunch of organic canned veggies, too, as well as several fruits canned in juice rather than syrup.  And I always have Hunt's natural tomatoes on hand so I can make some spaghetti sauce anytime the kids want some (whole wheat) pasta.  On top of that is canned tuna and salmon so I can throw some on a salad when I feel like it.  It's kind of a pain to sift through the different brands and types of tuna to find the ones that are only canned in water and have no veggie broth added.

For the freezer, we always have frozen veggies and some Great Value brand natural ice cream.  Aside from that, just meat that we get from our local meat market...that's as close as we can get to organic around here!