Anonymous wrote:Our freezer is working but not our fridge. New one wont get here for a week. Tips on how to feed kid for the week? Grown ups will just do a lot of take out but we don’t want a 3 yo to eat takeout everyday. I will try to freeze what I can and cook from frozen but I can’t freeze some things. For example, she drinks milk everyday- what do I do about that?

Are you kidding?A miini or "half" refrigerator is less than $50!

Anonymous wrote:Our freezer is working but not our fridge. New one wont get here for a week. Tips on how to feed kid for the week? Grown ups will just do a lot of take out but we don’t want a 3 yo to eat takeout everyday. I will try to freeze what I can and cook from frozen but I can’t freeze some things. For example, she drinks milk everyday- what do I do about that?

Get a box of shelf-stable milk like those Horizon packs.

With a freezer, shouldn't be too bad

Keep in freezer:
Frozen veggies
Bread
Tortillas
Nuggets
Meatballs
Black Bean burgers

Keep out at room temp:
Most individual fruits like peaches, apples, bananas, tomatoes, eggplants
Peanut butter
Cans of beans
Smallest size pasta sauce (freeze leftover)
Cereal
Shelf stable milk
Oats

Use olive oil instead of butter

Skip
Skip on eggs for the week unless you have a source of unwashed eggs that don't need refrigeration
Skip melons that are too big to eat in one serving
Skip yogurt
Skip huge blocks of cheese, but some hard cheeses can be at room temp for a couple days or freeze excess

Feed the kid take out. It's like being on vacation in a hotel with limited resources.

Plenty of fruit doesn't need to be refrigerated - apples, bananas, oranges. Freeze some yogurt tubes. Freeze grapes. Shelf stable milk for cereal (can cool it in the freezer or cooler first. Eat frozen food.

It's a bit of an annoyance but as for as kitchen problems go, you still have appliances and the freezer, you'll be fine.

Y’all can’t figure this out between two adults?

Get a cooler and refill the ice daily.
Buy stuff from the store, cook in portions for your family and freeze the rest in your working freezer (beans, casseroles, ziti, etc work well for this)
Buy *just* what you need at the store per day and cook it
Buy shelf stable milk

I commented above with some ideas. However, If it were my kids (4 and 2) they’d just eat peanut butter toast with raisins every night and love it. So if they have one thing they like just do that.

For the milk you can do something like this but I’d probably just go without for the week. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Horizon-Organic-Whole-Shelf-Stable-Milk-Boxes-8-Oz-12-Count/819219798?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=5968&adid=22222222277819219798_117755028669_12420145346&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=t&wl3=501107745824&wl4=pla-294505072980&wl5=9007781&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=819219798&wl13=5968&veh=sem_LIA&gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIqzdNu--7J7OZSew8939dNcs&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqs6lBhCxARIsAG8YcDigS62YnT6FiN04CB3UPeSIoG6LX1fRbo6PscvasAsGF52MGXxqRtsaAp5iEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Omg do not buy a fridge for a week that’s so wasteful

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches
Pasta with frozen peas and canned olives
Black bean and sweet potato tacos/quesadillas
Frozen pizza
Frozen shrimp thaws in minutes - make tacos or rice bowls
Frozen chicken nuggets or meatballs
Smoothie bowls

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op her. Seeing some very small mini fridges for $50 on Amazon but those fit like 6 cans of drinks. The cheapest normal size one I can find is about $120. Hate the thought of spending that when we already are paying a ton to replace the fridge

If you're only going to need it for a week, you'll be done with it before all the college kids go to school. You'll probably be able to sell it.

Who cates if it only holds 6 cans of drinks How much milk and non perishables are you planning on keeping on there for your 3 yr old?

The $50 Amazon refrigerator is big enough for half gallon milk, yogurt, cheese, deli meat, abd other miscellaneous perishables to get you through the week.

OP are you in the DC area? I have one in my basement. Happy to loan if you're nearby.

I see FB Marketplace posts all the time with mini refrigerators for like $50.

And Walmart , home depot,

Anonymous wrote:Op her. Seeing some very small mini fridges for $50 on Amazon but those fit like 6 cans of drinks. The cheapest normal size one I can find is about $120. Hate the thought of spending that when we already are paying a ton to replace the fridge

Those little bar fridges actually have some uses. My mother lives alone, but periodically she hosts the family (three kids, three in-laws and four grandchildren). We bought her a mini-fridge that we move to the garage when we aren't there. When any of us come to visit, the main fridge gets full with food she cooks, leftovers when we go out for meals and bring back leftovers, etc. So the mini-fridge has become the drink fridge. We all buy drinks we want and we pack the mini fridge with the drinks and keep the main fridge for the food.

I also have one and we put it out with drinks and snacks that the kids can get self-serve. When they were young (about pre-school years), we had yogurt tubes there, cut apple slices, cheese sticks, juice pouches. We have a French door fridge so, the kids could not reach things in the fridge. Also the door was heavier than they could pull open. So the mini-fridge on a small end table was just the right height for them. Pretty soon, you'll be able to use the mini-fridge to put things for the kid to grab themselves without opening the big fridge.

For parties, we put it out on the patio and we can have some drinks there and put others in a cooler on ice.

Why are people with money so helpless? Get a $20 cooler from Walmart and replace the ice every couple days. This is how the rest of us live, often for weeks at a time, when our fridge breaks and the landlord won’t fix it.

- DCUM poors

Fruits and vegetables
Stuff from pantry (pasta, couscous etc)
Buy shelf stable individual milk cartons
Some of your take out food

He’ll be fine without milk every day for a week.