Delicious UK - (12)December 2020

Our columnist Debora Robertson has another persona: as @deboradeclutters on Instagram,

she ‘deals with stuff, one bin bag at a time’. Who better to turn to for tried-and-tested wisdom

on how to create storage sanity in the run-up to Christmas (even if there are only two of you)?

THE GREAT

FRIDGE DECLUTTER

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.

BY DEBORA ROBERTSON

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.