Banana bread that’s great but we ate a few slices hot and don’t want the rest.
Caramel dip for fruit. Great once or twice now we’re done and it’s practically full.
Frozen spaghetti sauce I made but I love it fresh so I keep putting off using it.

Gahh. Unfinished business is the plague of my life.

Well, one of them, anyway.

Shredded cooked chicken. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Frozen pot pies, ditto.
More yogurt than I can eat before best-by date. Optimistic, I guess.
Frozen raw hamburger patties. They just never work out. I should just go ahead and cook them all in the first place.
A homemade loaf of bread that was given to me and that I just haven’t eaten because then it would be all gone.
I don’t know what else.

Now I feel like I have to go and clean out the refrigerator. Thanks for that pleasant thought, @JLeslie.

@Jeruba If hamburgers aren’t appealing what about meat sauce or a meatloaf? I love both. I also love shredded chicken for tacos or burritos.

@KNOWITALL Freeze the banana bread.

I have round steak in the freezer that needs to be cooked and I just don’t want it. I was thinking to cook it in gravy tomorrow and then refreeze until I’m in a meat mood.

I have a shelf full of dry pinto beans, macaroni, egg noodles, lentils and rice (about a dozen packages of each). I do eat them, but never seem to run out. My In law gets them in her food box every month and gives them to me.

@YARNLADY I love dry beans; I made black bean soup today. I will eat it for days until it’s gone. But that steak I mentioned; no taste for it. I even thought about putting it in the soup but opted for smoked sausage.

A box of Eggo waffles with one missing and a two pack box of single serve pepperoni pizzas with one missing. They were purchased for my nephew who stayed over for a couple of nights (first time since before the pandemic, after he was vaccinated). He ate one waffle and one pizza, and then wanted McDonald’s.

My mom and I only eat whole grain waffles (Eggos are not, and they are gross) and the pizza has pepperoni, which as a vegetarian I can’t eat.

@Kardamom If It’s a frozen pizza round pepperoni pieces they usually just fall off. You can easily remove them before cooking so no pepperoni fat cooks onto it. Unless just the idea that it was there bothers you, which I can understand.

@YARNLADY You reminded me I have dry split pieces for months in my pantry. I just opened a can of split pea soup two days ago. I’ve never made the soup from plain dry beans, I usually use a pack that comes with the spices. Maybe I’ll give it a try next week. Dried beans seems like a good idea when food might be scarce, but food is never extremely scarce so far as long as people don’t hoard. Ha, that’s another topic.

I always have a spare cake in the Frizzer in the event of a spontaneous party.

A box of Ice Cream Sandwiches. I need to eat them all when I see them. I just should not!
It’s a battle of willpower.

@JLeslie I should have but now we’re on day 5 so I’ll probably give it to the birds. Unfortunately it has eggs in it, so I’m not sure my husband will let me compost it (no animal products.)

@KNOWITALL It was so strange to me moving to CA that they request ALL food items to be set out in the city compost bins, including fats, dairy, eggs, meat, bones, etc. Maybe the process is different with large-scale public/commercial compost?

Ugh.. so many things. I planned on making two large dishes this week to get through lunches and dinners… shepherds pie and beef stew. I made the shepherds pie, but since we had to clean out the fridge, we also made chicken cutlets and Italian sausage in red sauce. So I didn’t make the stew. Plus, my husband went grocery shopping and he didn’t get the cut of beef I requested (I hate the “cubed stew meat” from the store). So I’ll have to decide soon whether to freeze it or cook it.

We’ve got a jar of yogurt that my mom bought when she was visiting that no one will eat.

I’ve got broccoli and red peppers that I was going to roast, but I haven’t yet.

@Cupcake Weird, I can’t imagine the stench, and animal fats would not be sanitary. Interesting, I didn’t know that.
The biggest city next to me doesn’t even offer recycling with your trash service still. Thankfully mine does.

@JLeslie, as a vegetarian, I don’t eat meat, or any foods that have been prepared with, or have come in contact with meat.

@Kardamom I thought that might be the case. I know vegetarians who are ok just taking out the meat, but I can understand if that isn’t an option for you.

This post reminds me that I need to do some serious cleaning out of my refrigerator. Nothing in there is spoiled, but there’s stuff in there that I haven’t touched and I need to throw it out to make space.

@jca2 I did that a month ago and took out every shelf and drawer and washed everything. Afterwards, I wished I had done it a long time ago, and I should just do it more regularly, because it’s so great. Even after doing it I have these few items still in the freezer.