The Fridge, Currently

October 26, 2008

Let’s see, we’ve got some tasty stuff in there. Start from the top left and moving across then down:

  • soy cheeses
  • apple juice
  • fruit salad (apples, strawberries, grapes, lime juice, agave)
  • salsa
  • peanut butter
  • kimchi
  • mustard
  • margarine
  • Thai peanut sauce
  • spicy vegan mayo
  • vegenaise
  • leftover potato-leek soup
  • agave
  • canned diced tomatoes
  • green beans
  • vegan cream cheese
  • bean dip
  • seltzer
  • lime juice
  • salad dressings
  • spinach
  • leftover cajun bastard casserole
  • pumpkin pie
  • beer
  • soy creamer
  • juice boxes (for the nephew)
  • bell peppers
  • asparagus
  • kale
  • celery
  • carrots
  • tomatoes
  • orange juice
  • cranberry juice
  • soy whip cream
  • tofu
  • tofurky lunch “meats”
  • vegan sausages
  • soy milk (silk and west soy)
  • frozen veggies
  • frozen fruit
  • frozen leftovers (spinach soup)
  • veggie burgers

Not shown: pantry, countertops.

(PS - Don’t give me any of that privileged vegan crap: Yes, I’m privileged. Yes I’m vegan, but they’re not necessarily related. And appearances aren’t always what they seem. For example, I bought this fridge used from Craigslist.)

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Food 

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6 Responses to “The Fridge, Currently”

  1. Bea Elliott on October 27th, 2008 5:14 am

    Nicely stocked fridge - I could be company at your house any day! Great find on Craigs List… I shop used whenever I can too. Just a question though - why do you refridgerate your peanut butter?

  2. laura on October 27th, 2008 8:51 pm

    PS - Don’t give me any of that privileged vegan crap: Yes, I’m privileged. Yes I’m vegan, but they’re not necessarily related
    I say this as a vegan.
    I say this as a vegan who has really enjoyed your blog from reading it so far, but let loose a loud sigh at this sentence.

    Our privileges shape every part of our lives - where we work, live, what we eat, where we get our food. Being able to buy a fridge online through a website isn’t necessarily something all folks can do, and lots of folks certainly wouldn’t be able to keep it so fully stocked full of perishable items.

    This doesn’t mean that veganism isn’t important, or that conscientious shopping isn’t possible. But pretending that we all don’t have a variety of privileges does no good for our collective cause.

  3. Elaine Vigneault on October 27th, 2008 9:57 pm

    Laura, you read my blog regularly? Really? Because I’ve written about how privilege shapes everything we do before myself, actually. See here:
    http://elainevigneault.com/on-lenses-and-filters.html

    But more importantly, I posted this pic to share my life, not to represent veganism. This is my personal diary blog. There’s a reason I started Vegan Soapbox and blog about less personal stuff there.

    I know I’m privileged. (Now. I haven’t always had nearly the privilege I have now. But yes, I’m privileged now.)

    But the fact that I blog about veganism and I can afford ‘perishable items’ (or feel that I can afford - because come on now, this is picture of my fridge, not a picture of my bank statement and we all know people can look richer than they are) doesn’t mean vegans are privileged.

    I am privileged.
    I am vegan.
    That doesn’t mean vegans are privileged.
    That’s my point.

    It takes a lot of fucking guts to spill your life out into the public sphere. I really wish more people would appreciate that. But since they won’t, perhaps I’ll just make my blog private. It’s something I’ve been considering lately…

  4. Elaine Vigneault on October 27th, 2008 10:00 pm

    Bea - everyone asks that. It’s because as a child (and even as an adult) peanut butter in the cupboard attracts ants. It just never works out to keep the PB in the cupboard.

  5. laura on October 28th, 2008 4:08 am

    I didn’t intend to come across as though I don’t appreciate what you do - or that you shouldn’t share the more personal aspects of your life. Additionally, I still don’t see how addressing that being able to choose what food to abstain from, and having access to fresh veggies (because most vegans know you can go vegan without tofurkey and soy milk) and a kitchen to cook up legumes and other goods is a privilege that allows folks to be vegan.

    So vegans are privileged - much in the same way that folks who have citizenship in the U.S. are privileged. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a wide economic range, or range of personal experience. But access to foods, and the means to store them (even in the U.S.) is a luxury of sorts. Your previous post touches on economics - that time and money are a privilege, so it seemed odd that you would dismiss them here.

    This comment, and the one prior isn’t meant as an insult, or a ‘catching you at being a bad vegan’ but rather simply it is a discussion of anti-oppression and a simple hope of broadening all our discussions.

  6. Sarah on October 28th, 2008 12:52 pm

    I just found your blog & love it! I wish I had the organisation to have my fridge so well stocked - just looking at yours makes me want to cook up a vegan storm!

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