Throughout my life, I’d often been told that a full fridge and freezer are more efficient than an emptier one. I absorbed this tidbit and have always been strangely panicked when shelves were barer than others and redistributed jars, bottles and packets accordingly. However, recent news to me is that this might actually be making my fridge work harder.
A further issue arose from this terrible system, when I would do my weekly shop, where there was a gap, I would fill it with no real rhyme or reason (aside from keeping meats separate). The problem was, as I’m sure you can expect, food was often out of sight, out of mind, and I was wasting perfectly good food and feeling terrible about it.
