- Hey, everybody, it's Natasha of natashaskitchen.com
and we're in Natasha's Kitchen.
(laughs)
If you're a subscriber to our channel,
you've probably already seen our dream kitchen tour
where we let you guys look at what we keep in our drawers
and cabinets and, our organized pantry tour.
So many of you have asked for a fridge tour,
We're gonna do that today.
First, we're gonna start with the fridge
and then go on to the freezer.
So without further ado, (tapping)
let's get started.
Ra, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka.
(laughs)
Tadaa!
(laughs)
Up here we keep our condiments.
So we've got all the basic things
that you need for a great homemade burger,
regular mustard, ketchup,
I try to find one
that doesn't have high fructose corn syrup.
We try to buy organic most of the time.
(laughs)
And then Real Mayo and sour cream
and salad dressing, we have some up here.
This is our favorite store-bought caesar dressing
the Marzetti brand.
They also make a really good lunch that my kids love.
And then of course, Dijon Mustard a little Grey Poupon
for a lot of our recipes we love this.
All right, and next row we have some Hummus
and this is great for snacking,
it's also great for kids' lunches.
We love dipping yet with chips
or, with celery and carrot sticks.
Also, this next section...
I see you judging my life.
(laughs)
We don't have to talk about that.
Chick-fil-A Sauces, I don't know,
I'm pretty sure every person in America has this section,
maybe they hide it, I don't know.
And then butter, we like to use unsalted butter
because we bake a lot.
We like to control the amount of salt in our recipes,
so we always have a ton of unsalted butter,
and tons more in the freezer.
All right, then we have fresh citrus for all of the
guacamoles and ceviches and salsas that we're crazy about.
And then we have our nuts and seeds.
We like to keep a variety
for snacking and to add to recipes.
And, also I keep my probiotic stash
here in the refrigerator.
Very important tip, do not store your milk
or dairy on the door, with exception of sour cream
'cause that's our own exception
that's not science.
(laughs)
We don't always follow the rules.
Okay.
And now we're gonna take a look at the main part
of our refrigerator, where we have the bulk of everything.
We'll start at the top with our drinks.
We have, our favorite drinks right now which are bubbly
my kids love them and they don't like sweet sodas, so.
(laughs)
My husband loves his coconut water
so we like to keep that on hand.
Also, we love nut milk.
So, this is a new one that we're trying, the Makadamia Milk,
it's great.
And then we always keep Almond milk on hand
and we use these for protein shakes, smoothies,
chia seed pudding, and we always stock whole milk
we use that for our lattes in the morning.
Remember I shared with you our favorite
Jura espresso machine.
We're completely obsessed with it
and I will leave a link to that in the notes.
And then we have heavy cream
and half and half for baking for coffees.
One of my recent favorites is low fat Kefir.
I love this for pancakes in the morning
and, just to drink it with a cookie,
it is so satisfying to me.
We have our Greek yogurt
and we use this to make fruit and yogurt parfait
almost every other morning.
It's so much protein.
It's low in fat.
And we use our homemade granola
which I'll leave a link to that in the notes
and also use frozen berries that we keep from our garden.
It is so good, so satisfying.
Okay, and then we also love to keep fruit in the fridge.
We've prepped things where we can like pineapple
just so it's a quick snack on the go.
I don't like to rinse other berries
because they tend to get mushy faster.
So I just like to store them in their original containers
which have the little air vents.
I love this little egg holder
because I can see my supply at all times.
Then we go to the next shelf.
We have this really neat little turntable, lazy Susan
you don't have to dig for stuff, which I love.
I have these also
in our pantry tour where we keep all of our spare sauces.
They're so handy and they keep the fridge neat and tidy.
So don't wrong.
I'll share with you some of our favorites.
Another favorite salad dressing is Newman's Own brand.
We love their Italian dressing
which we use for our cowboy caviar,
it's so good if you haven't tried that delicious
I will link to it in the notes.
And then of course their Sesame Ginger
which we mixed with a little peanut butter
for our lettuce wraps
(laughs)
and then the basics Worcestershire sauce.
And then we like using coconut amino just to cut
down on the soy that we consume.
We love A.1 for steaks.
We always keep jalapeno peppers.
We love to chop them
up and put them into our spicy guacamole.
Then we like to keep a little bit
of jam in the refrigerator.
And, our favorite favorite maple syrup is this way
from Gateway Farm, and it comes from Vermont
and it is the best maple syrup I have ever had.
Highly recommend.
Favorite hot sauce, hands down.
It's gotta be the Tabasco.
I have always loved it.
Organic barbecue sauce by kinder's.
And then we also love to keep leftovers in the refrigerator.
Whenever we're cooking rice, I'll double it.
So I'll have some leftover for another meal.
So we've got some Brown rice
some white rice also really good for stir fried rice
whether it's chicken fried rice or Shrew fried rice
it makes it so easy to meal prep that way.
One of our favorite leftover meals is soup,
we always like to make a pot
at the start of the week and it lasts throughout the week.
Here we have some leftover Borsch.
I will leave a link to this tutorial in the notes.
We do love to keep a bowl of boiled eggs in the refrigerator
because it's great, a great way to add more protein
to your diet and our kids love them for snacking.
So, this is something we always keep on hand.
And then for storing asparagus, here's a great tip,
if you want it to last longer, you can cut
off the ends and put it into a container of water.
And it'll last for one to two weeks.
You're welcome.
(laughs)
Now, we're gonna hit the drawers, in the first drawer,
we have our little bakery sections where we keep our breads
and some of our miscellaneous things.
All right, in here, I do like to keep my yeast
because it'll stay fresher way longer.
So I just keep that in the little jar, it's ready for me.
And then we keep some ground flax seeds
which we love to add to those parfaits in the morning.
Of course we always have corn tortillas.
I love white corn tortillas and these are perfect
for our favorite fish tacos or shrimp tacos.
And if you haven't tried those
you are missing out on life, especially the sauce.
(laughs)
All right, and then this, I have to show you this trick.
Okay, so we keep our bread
in the fridge because it just lasts way longer
it doesn't get moldy as fast and to seal it up.
Okay, so you've taken a few slices out
and you don't wanna fumble with that annoying little clip.
So all you do is the twirly Warley,
that's my own terminology.
You don't have to use it.
(laughs)
And then you pull it down over the bag
and it seals itself.
(laughs)
I know you're clapping for me right now.
You're welcome.
(laughs)
All right.
Okay, next, we have our veggie drawer.
We like to keep all of the veggies
in one spot and prep wherever we can.
But the most important thing is to keep things fresh.
So I'll show you how we stash our veggies.
I like to store my celery and carrots in Ziploc bags.
And one trick that my husband learned while working
at Chili's Restaurant is to put some ice on there
and that'll keep it crisply and add some moisture
so it'll stay fresh longer.
And then once avocados are getting soft and ripe
we do like to refrigerate those
so they don't get overly soft.
And then we also love to keep Brussels sprouts
because we are crazy about Brussels sprouts
and my kids love them, which is always amazing and a plus.
Then we have some prepped veggies here
some cauliflower, broccoli, both veggies that my kids love.
And then we love these Baby Bella mushrooms
which we use in lots of recipes.
And then to store herbs,
we like to put them into these little stash or bags,
they seal they're reusable.
We keep parsley and cilantro
in these little bags to keep them fresh longer.
Then we also like these little cucumbers from Costco,
also keeping them in a little bag.
You can keep them in a Ziploc bag
and then we always keep some fresh baby arugula
for our arugala berry salad.
And I'll leave a link to that in the notes
again, one of our favorites.
Now onto my favorite drawer
which is the meats and cheeses and our family,
we're obsessed with cheeses.
We have some meats here,
chicken and ground beef that were defrosting for a meal.
This'll probably go for making our famous cheeseburgers.
And then always, always we have bacon
on hand because we love bacon.
I try to look for stuff that's nitrate free or uncured.
I have some prosciutto, this is a weakness of mine.
I have to be careful with that to not eat too much.
And then some salami, I like to get the organic one
and make sure it's sealed really tightly
after you open it it'll last much longer.
This is great for kids' lunches
Mozzarella Cheese for making homemade pizzas.
This is my favorite for shredding cheese
and then goat cheese.
We love making our beef and goat cheese salad.
And then also we put this into our arugala salads.
We always stuck this one.
I love this one from a Costco, some Mexican cheese blend
shredded cheese we love this
for tastes of Diaz and so many things.
And then of course
we always have our Parmesan cheese in here.
I keep this container here in the refrigerator
and I keep a bag that's frozen
in the freezer and I just refill it.
And I like to get the bag at Costco.
I'll show it to you in a minute.
Also cream cheese for all the baking that we do.
We love to have cream cheese on hand
especially for cheesecake and then Ricotta Cheese,
we put that into our ricotta pancakes, which are so good.
They become totally a family favorite, highly recommend
and this is our favorite brand, Ricotta.
Then these little cheeses are the snack attack cheeses
which we put into the kids' lunch boxes.
My son loves these
and my daughter loves her little baby bells.
That's it for the cheese drawer.
We have found
that keeping your refrigerator at nicely organized.
And we did hire Anna from Neat Method,
and she came here with her team and they cleaned
out and organized our entire refrigerator and freezer.
When you do that,
you're way less likely to have food that spoils
or things that you forget about because you can see it all
and also make sure that you don't crowd your refrigerator.
You wanna keep the air circulating around your foods
and it's gonna stay cold much more efficiently, okay.
Onto the freezer.
(laughs)
Take a peek.
Before we get into this, you're probably thinking, dang
that's a small freezer.
It is, because, (laughs) because we do so much
baking and cooking we do have a deep freezer in the garage.
So these are the things that we use on the regular okay?
That's the stuff we'll keep inside.
So here's our Parmesan
that I'm refilling my little container in the fridge
from Costco, super delish works for everything.
Then here we keep our frozen herbs.
So we love to grow dill and chives at home.
And then you can just chop them up
freeze them and enjoy them all winter long.
And you bet we have bags of these stashed in the freezer
in the deep freezer, so helpful for cooking,
and I always have them on hand.
Okay, now the freezer is talking to me,
(laughs)
we better hurry.
Okay, and then we also do the same thing with fresh berries.
So we have, blackcurrant from our garden and raspberries
which we love putting into that fruit and yogurt parfait.
(laughs)
Okay, and then we keep the kids lunchbox ice packs in here
and then our favorite ice cream, okay.
Mine and my kids is Tillamook brand.
I love this vanilla bean ice cream has the little specks
of vanilla in it.
It's so good.
It's just my favorite vanilla, super creamy.
And then the kids love the chocolate chip version I do too.
I mean, if I'm being honest, (laughs) it's so good
you haven't tried that brand,
this is not sponsored,
I just really, really love it.
And then we always love to keep some cooked shrimp meat
because we are basically obsessed with ceviche
and, you have to try that one too.
So always keep cooked shrimp meat.
And then, we've got some hash browns in there
and some frozen uncooked
pumanee, which are basically like little dumplings,
I have a recipe for those.
I also have a recipe for pierogi
which are filled with potatoes and those freeze really well
so good for meal prep.
Then we have frozen fruits
which we love to put into smoothies.
We've got some pineapple and mango
and there's some frozen peas back there too.
We do keep some frozen veggies
and then some meats that are quick to grab.
And we do store a ton of meat in our deep freezer
but it's basically the same thing you see here.
Steaks chicken, ground beef for burgers,
we love burgers.
And then we have our ice drawer.
So nothing to see,
(laughs)
just ice.
(laughs)
At the bottom we keep frozen croissants,
and here's a great tip.
If you have fresh baked goods like croissants or bread.
So if you freeze your fresh stuff right away
when you bought it will taste like fresh, okay
take my word for it and try it.
That's why we love to buy the big packs
at Costco of croissants.
And if you buy two loaves of bread
you can freeze one and seriously it'll be just like fresh.
And then we have focaccia
which I have a really good recipe for this.
Also, I like to keep frozen disc of homemade pie crust,
I will leave a link to this recipe.
Great for pies and everything that calls for pie crust.
Of course, some frozen puff pastry for baking projects.
Oh good.
We're done.
Okay.
(laughs)
My butt is so cold right now.
(laughs)
I'll make sure to share links to all
of our organizational tools in the description of the video.
And I wanna hear from you guys, if you have any great tips
on keeping your fridge or freezer organized
let me know in the comments
and let me know what you wanna see on our channel next.
We'll see you in our next video.