Could You/Do You Live Without A Fridge

[nailit]

(Or Freezer)
My fridge/freezer is giving up the ghost and Im in 2 minds whether to replace it, with the price of energy about to sky-rocket etc.
Most stuff doesnt actually need refridginating, eggs etc.

thoughts?

[lankeela]

Friends I stayed with as a kid in an old Norfolk pub had a mesh cupboard which they called a safe for meal and cheese which was in a stone floored dairy. They never had a fridge or freezer. I hadn't given it a thought before, but I can't remember us having a fridge at home at least till I was a teenager, but we did have a big larder cupboard in a corner of the kitchen.

[lankeela]

*Meat not meal!

[Peter Pedant]

you need a fridge
take it from me

( worked/lived in Egypt without a fridge. Food spoils really really easily. Or as a CIA agent said about Afghanistan ( and the lack of agents' interest in such places) It is diarrhoea as a way of life)

[Peter Pedant]

Lanka - no we had a fridge from word go -
what my father walked oudda german POW camp and bought a fridge? Kinda yeah.

Meat was either in the fridge, in an oven being cooked, or on the table being eaten and nowhere else.

[pastafreak]

Spoilt American that I am, we always had a fridge. This is back in the 50s. And I'm sure they always had one. I think it would get too hot in NY to depend on a larder.

[pat2604]

No. We have no shops near us, so we do a click and collect about every 10 days. We eat a lot of stuff that wouldn't last that long. Also when we cook we make extra and freezeso there are always home cooked meals available.

[Hopkirk]

Two words.

Climate change.

[roopower]

We had a wood and metal mesh 'meat safe' which sat in the shade of the house by the back door. My mother did shop most days, not the weekly shop and top up that I do.

[davebro]

I like having the fridge freezer - means I can cook & freeze meal portions & I don't run out of stuff like bread & frozen veg.
I shop usually twice a week - if I had to go more often I would spend more in diesel than the F/F costs to run.

[barry1010]

A fridge and freezer is not expensive to run. Meat and fish needs refrigerating and I find that fresh veg keeps a lot longer in the fridge.

We didn't have a fridge when I was growing up and sometimes meat bought on Saturday would be off by Sunday especially if there had been a thunderstorm.

I could live with out a freezer if I had a large fridge with an icebox

[barry1010]

I well remember the bluebottles hurtling themselves at the mesh on the meat safe - and the smell from that meat safe.

[jennyjoan]

any thoughts on this - if you only a bit of butter, small meat and anything else smallish - should do you - not eat the electric and won't take up much room in your flat and the price should be excellent.

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