What’s in Your Fridge? (in Mary's Daily Dish)

Despite my love for the grocery store, I often find that with jam-packed days I struggle to find time to actually get there. This usually leads to two types of shopping experiences:

The “that looks amazing and I need to buy a few of those” gourmet or specialty food spree.
The “nothing-but-business” shopping trip to stock up on the go-to foods.

For shopping experience number 2, I have a checklist of must-have items. I thought it’d be fun to share our top 10 food staples here. I’ll go first.

Mary’s Top 10 Grocery Staples

10. Stoneybrook Farms plain, organic, low-fat yogurt
9. Mozzarella cheese sticks
8. Whole-wheat tortillas
7. Egglands Best brown, free-range eggs
6. Pouches of albacore tuna
5. Green peppers
4. Spinach
3. Apples
2. Popcorn (regular light and kettle corn…mmm)
1. Avocados

I also usually have hummus, corn chips, rice cakes and any and all fruits and veggies I find at the farmer’s market, but for the most part those are my top 10… now it’s your turn to share! Leave your list in the comment below.

The Final Dish: It makes me truly happy to see a fully stocked fridge.

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Mary Bigham, the creator of wcdish, is a self-admitted sushi and travel addict. She has a crush on just about every food but refuses to eat American cheese.

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11 Comments So Far

Kristine – Aug 16, 2007

1-Michelob Ultra
2-Organic Cage Free Eggs
3-Organic Milk
4-grapes
5-Fuji apples
6-Bourson cheese
7-tortillas
8-Yoplait yogurt
9-jarlsberg swiss cheese
10-grape propel
JB – Aug 16, 2007

10. Hummus
9. Seven Stars Farm yogurt
8. Lemons or limes
7. Maple syrup
6. Rice Dream rice milk
5. Merrick cat food (for the cat in my life)
4. Trader Joe’s organic eggs
3. Random fresh veggies from my CSA
2. Santa Cruz organic lemonade
1. Reeds’ Extra Ginger Brew ginger ale
Andy – Aug 16, 2007

In no particular order

1. Orange juice extra pulp
2. 1 gallon 1% milk
3. Rasberry
4. 1 pint blueberries
5. Miller lite cans
6. Dog fish 60 min ipa
7. 1 LB Mozzarella chesse
8. Ketchup
9. Merilo’s Magic marinade ( i have tons of marinades and mixes but this is my favorite on.)
10. Blue chesse dressing
fenwick – Aug 17, 2007

1- Bruschetta
2- Salsa
3- Guac
4- Fat Free Organic Milk
5- Cheese…Of any kind… except Moldy
6- Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi
7- Riesling (It’s a Thinking Gal’s White Zin)
8- Generic Mustard
9- Peppers
10- Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce
Jason Tremblay – Aug 17, 2007

1. 1% organic milk
2. Store-brand cheerios (honey nut)
3. 5 organic bananas
4. 6-pack chicken flavored Maruchan ramen noodles
5. Sylvia’s Soul Food turnip greens or mixed greens
6. Intelligentsia Coffee
7. Fresh baguette
8. Bruschetta and/or Tapenade
9. Store-brand OJ (pulp level varies)
10. Eggs (used to buy large, but now have moved on to JUMBO)
JB – Aug 19, 2007

Isn’t it interesting almost all of us have at least one organic item in our fridge?! …
Sparky – Aug 20, 2007

Also in no particular order:

1. Fresh vegetables (eg, sugar snap peas, peppers, romaine hearts, carrots)
2. Grape jelly
3. Apples (Fuji)
4. 1% milk
5. Edy’s Slow Churned, No Sugar Added Triple Chocolate (freezer)
6. Cheese
7. Red grapes
8. Tony’s 3-cheese pizza (freezer)
9. Light n fit yogurt
10. Ranch light dressing
Erin – Aug 20, 2007

This was actually a QotD at vox last week. It’s such a fun list to think about though isn’t it? I detailed my list here: http://erincooks.com/2007/08/17/erin-cooks-the-internet-august-17-2007/
Looking forward to checking out the rest of your website!
Loressa Dunn – Aug 27, 2007

I notice there are other salt junkies out there. I almost feel dirty about sneaking the yummy fumee de sel and the Maldon and Murray River salts.

My shopping bag contents:

1.Potato chips - low fat but not fat free
2.Rosemary salt - Bellissima(SP)
3.Heirloom tomatoes
4.Live lettuce
5.flax pasta
6.Private Collection Italian Style Pizza
7.Organic chicken breasts
8.Ossau-Iraty Basque cheese
9.Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
10.Dave’s Killer Bread - Spelt
HELEN – Sep 02, 2007

the food sounds good but you have to get used to it and if you don’t have a farmers market it is sad
Amy Eastburn – Sep 03, 2007

bacon bits
feta cheese
milk
breakstone cottage double with fruit
whipped cream
carmel topping
flavored coffee
merlies magic
apricot preserves
hot sauce
ketchup

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