Meet my mini-fridge. I love it. I hate it.
My landlord offered me a full-size refrigerator, and I turned it down because I don’t want a refrigerator in my living room. I’m also teaching myself to eat fresh food. UGH. Nice in theory, but do you know how hard it is to buy a head of lettuce and wash it and eat it all in one or two days, by yourself?! I’m running a business or three here, I don’t have time to wash produce everyday.
What I used to do was buy produce and meats in bulk, then wash and freeze or refrigerate everything once every week or two. I’d cook meals for the week in one day and store it all in the fridge. Not in that tiny thing!
Pricesmart has these huge bags of frozen blueberries yummmm and healthy! Nope, can’t have those. I don’t even have a freezer now. I hate this mini-fridge.
But I love it. Inevitably, all that frozen produce and the leftovers I would store in my massive fridge would go bad before I could finish all of them, so they would go in the trash. Not anymore with this mini-fridge! I now starve more often than throw food out. Plus, it’s great for my lifestyle of frequent traveling – I never have to worry about having food that might go bad while I’m out of town because there isn’t anything in there to begin with.
I struggle almost everyday with changing my mind and accepting the larger fridge, in my living room, but I just know I wouldn’t be able to help myself and I’d fill it up with crap and forget it was in there.
I kind of like this forced learning of a different lifestyle, but it might be driving me insane. I mean, look, I just wrote a blog post about a refrigerator. Who does that?
I know your dilemma! My fiance and I had a similar little thing ( although with a small freezer) when we were living in Australia and had a tiny kitchenette! It took time to adjust but then we loved it ( and now hate a big fridge that we have in Canada where stuff gets lost and eventually spoils). I could carry the amount of groceries that could fill that fridge in two plastic bags:) So I am all for a small fridge- especially if you live solo!
Wow I can’t imagine making my tiny fridge work for two people. That’s impressive!
I feel your pain!!! lol I wrote you some time ago….I’m here in Cahuita right now. Headed to San Jose today! Would love to see your tree house!!!!
Michael
aww you should stay in Cahuita. It’s so much nicer than San Jose and there are all those buckets of baby sloths!
Clearly the biggest problem with your situation is that there is no place to store Trits. Frozen haz-mat is a great appetite suppressant!
😀 mmmm frozen hazmat que rico!!
You know, I’m not sure a Trits would make it from the store freezer to my cabin without melting through the plastic container, through the floorboard of my car, onto the road – OMG I just solved the hueco problem. Costa Rica has so many potholes because people are trying to transport Trits!
Quick, inform Nobel!
Erin, I had to change some money and BCCR was the only place that would do it. Then I got my phone taken care of!
Today, I am going to walk the streets of San Jose and find a couple prices out on some getting around thingys…:-)..already bought a bike.
Then I might head to Jaco just because its close and I can!! Duh!!
All of this to do nothing! Will return to Cahuita today or tomorrow. All my things are at my home base. Seeee!!!!
Yet, I still want to visit. I’ve got to see your tree house and the bird dinging window! Lol. I’ve been here over 3 weeks and met most of the “web” people…lol…I can’t imagine not meeting you and your infamous ice box!!!
Glad to hear you are getting along in your new home! Take it easy in this rain, everyone else is 🙂
i’m truly down with you on this in all regards ~ i was totally cracking up cuz my frig looks exactly like this one, but i do have a ‘so-called’ freezer ~ i keep my Imperials on the top shelf under the alleged freezer, thinking they’ll be colder!
(i’ve never really had a ‘big’ frig’ in Costa Rica except once about 8 yrs ago, for a very short time, which is a vague memory to say the least!)
i do find trying to keep things ‘edible’ to be a big challenge ~ n’ what goes in the fridg & what doesn’t is always a dilemma ~ usually not what i think anyhow! my theory is cooking things that need it & eating leftovers ~ but that can get old too….what to do?!?
hahaha I’m so glad someone understands this situation! My mini-fridge also has a “freezer,” which is supposed to hold 2 ice trays. BUT I can’t use it because the ice grows over the door overnight and seals it shut. So to kind of deal with this, I removed that freezer tray thingie, and now I put things up top that need to be the coldest (for me, fruit for smoothies. for you, Imperials :), and then things that need less cold go on the bottom.
It’s a very carefully balanced situation in that refrigerator jajaja.
My diet consists mostly of batidos, eggs, y gallo pinto.
We live in an apartment building so we don’t need big appliances, but our microwave has been kind of sketchy lately – and we’re looking to get a new one.
I got mine from Pricesmart, although if I had had the patience at the time, I would have waited to get it from a moving sale.
LOL! This post made me laugh! I get you! I have a mini fridge with a mini freezer but additionally all our food is prepared for us so what goes in my fridge are candy, chocolate and fruit&veggies. I don’t like fruit and veggies but i know i must eat them therefore they all end up in the garbage after a few days 🙂
I had the same issues while I lived in my apartment. Glad to have a garage and a chest freezer now.