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Clean the Fridge Chicken Soup!

A cold December day and it was time to kill two birds with one stone...make chicken soup and do a proper cleaning of the fridge. These things could be done separately but it's more fun to do it simultaneously. By the time the fridge is clean- lunch will be ready!
Started with a big soup pot of water and 3 cubes of chicken bouillon. Added in onion, garlic and bay leaves. While the heat made the little pot creak and boil up it was time to get creative.
Holiday food and food that got bypassed by holiday food was stacking up and causing chaos in my fridge. Half a rotisserie chicken got bypassed for holiday ham. I got to work stripping the bird and putting MOST of the chicken in the soup. Some of the chicken got put into a little container to make a last meal with the rest of the holiday food- namely mashed potatoes, potato salad and cranberry relish. There was just enough to condense that stuff into a small unit for dinner tonight.
*Tonights dinner ✔
Next a bunch of steamed vegetables I made as a side did not get touched. Everyone wanted my green bean casserole...which is pretty damn good (and gone!). All the vegetables went into the soup. Then it was looking around in the crisper- no one was eating salads and vegetables with cakes and cupcakes around.

I found some mushrooms and tomatoes that wanted to be in my soup. Also a can of Campbell's soup with noodles I attempted to eat but couldn't because its just NOT HOMEMADE SOUP. I put that in the soup too. Im all about NO FOOD WASTE and yes, repurposing food.
Now that everything was in the pot doing its soup magic I returned to the task at hand with a hot soapy sponge and some paper towels.
Shelf by shelf got cleared, scrubbed, dried and put in order. I discovered a pickle jar volcano had at one point erupted and also broken shards of an exploded Topo Chico bottle were waiting for me at the bottom.
5 jars of salsa, really? I tossed a jar of Mrs. Renfros salsa into the soup for spiciness. Because I can and because it sucked as stand alone salsa. Three half full jars of pickles got turned into ONE. Gravies from Thanksgiving got put in their gravy graves and I think Im the proud new owner of 15 jars I need to wash and stow away.
We wont talk about the salad dressing army because their ranks are numerous and varied.


We will talk about the TREASURE I unearthed- a bottle of Prosecco and a bottle of white- just in time for NYE! It was worth scrubbing hardened pickle juice just to find them!
Now the fridge is cleaned and sorted. There's even room for the soup I just made and am about to eat!
*Fridge Makeover ✔
*Soup for days Complete ✔
*NYE treats unearthed ✔

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