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“At this time of year, many of us experience that heart-sinking feeling. You know the one: you open the fridge door and the shelves groan with bottles, jars and plastic containers, the wrapped and the unwrapped, the fresh and the forgotten, all competing for space, your despair lit only by that chilly automatic light of doom. There really isn’t anything festive about it at all. Give yourself a fighting chance of banishing the fridge Jenga challenge by spending an hour or so organising now, before the Big Shop arrives. You won’t regret it.”
1 THE GRAND CLEAR-OUT
Begin by going through the fridge and eating absolutely everything you possibly can before you begin stocking up for Christmas. Make it into a challenge. Use up the ends of jars: add that last teaspoon of miso to a vinaigrette, chop the slightly wilted lettuce into a stir fry, put the final scoop of yogurt into a marinade. Be ruthless with anything past its best - it’s mayonnaise, not granny’s wedding dress.
2 BANISH ODOURS
Strong-smelling foods can affect their neighbours if you’re not careful. Put an open tub of bicarbonate of soda in a door shelf to absorb the odours and replace it every few months - scribble the date on the side to remind yourself.