What's in Your Fridge?

Over on TreeHugger, they've got a post showing what's in the fridge, since you are what you eat. This seems like a good meme to me! So, here's my fridge. Note that I have a roommate, so I'm only going to list the things that are actually mine.

At the top is the freezer. All I've got in there is some minced garlic and a frozen banana. On the first shelf, I have Earth Balance Soy Garden vegan soy butter, bake-at-home rolls, and homemade vegan chili (made last night, recipe is from How It All Vegan, but I added a small zucchini I had on-hand). There's also a piece of fresh ginger I got a the farmers' market. On the middle shelf, there's sprouts (hiding in the back), mushrooms, two kinds of hummus, bell peppers, homemade garlic spread, Sour Supreme vegan sour cream, Teese vegan cheese (tastes a bit more like American cheese than a nice sharp cheddar, but oh well), carrots, and potatoes. On the bottom shelf, I have Almond Breeze almond milk, gyoza dipping sauce, avocados, grape jam, vegan mayonnaise, raspberry vinaigrette, and tomato sauce. Most of it's organic (the majority is from Trader Joe's), though the jam has been in there long enough that it's Welch's.

On the door, I have some lemon juice, taco sauce (on which I need to check the expiration date), and chocolate soy milk. Below that, there's organic sunflower seeds, organic mustard, and organic ketchup. Below that I've got orange juice. Surprisingly, the soy milk is not mine. And over on the side are organic tomatoes and wheat germ.

Not in the fridge:

As you can see, my fridge is teeny tiny, so I have a lot of dried goods as well. In airtight containers on the counter, I have brown rice, green lentils, golden flax seed (whole), whole wheat flour, and barley. Not in airtight containers because I need to get more of them, I've got red kidney beans and garbanzo beans. There's also a head of garlic, 3 or 4 onions, pine nuts, pecans, whole wheat pasta, oatmeal, rice, bananas, plums, and polenta.

Remarks

First, there's a lot of plastic in there. I need to learn to make my own hummus. What would be very cool is if there was someone at Eastern Market with great big tubs of various things like hummus, soy sour cream, soy yogurt, organic sauces and dips, etc. that you could scoop into your own container to buy, instead of having to buy a container with it.

Second, did you notice that everything I named was vegan? I'm not vegan yet, but I'm working on it. And given the damage associated with factory farming, clearing rainforest to raise cattle, and the oft-repeated saying that a vegan Hummer-driver has a smaller footprint than a meat-eater on a bicycle, I figure this goes into the "green" category. By the way, I did find one article stating that if you eat meat, you use twice the fossil fuel (to produce the meat) to get the energy to ride a bicycle as compared to driving.