The Joy of Less by Amy Newmark

Author:Amy Newmark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul

But that’s okay. Not only are we eating less ice cream, we’re exercising more since each time we need to get something from the fridge, we have to walk an extra ten yards into the garage and another ten yards back to the kitchen again.

The only real challenge to keeping a refrigerator in our garage, aside from having to walk the extra yards, is that my wife has to use noise-reducing earplugs or noise-muffling earphones each time she goes out to the garage to retrieve food from the fridge or to get in her car.

It’s taken a few months, but we’ve fallen into a routine, and, much to our surprise, we’ve found that we’re eating less and fewer times a day, and what we’re eating is healthier, which means we’re making more nutritious meals. That’s because every week we buy fresh fruit and produce, and we plan our dinner menu depending on what is available at the store.

Fresh fruit and vegetables — apples, grapefruit, peaches, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, and such — ripen on our kitchen counter and taste as if we had just picked the fruit off the trees or bushes, or pulled the vegetables straight out of the earth.

Even better, from an environmentalist’s point of view, our energy footprint has shrunken since installing the small fridge. Each month I check my electric bill, pleased to find that we are using significantly less electricity than we used in the past to power the larger fridge (though it’s not always true that smaller fridges use less energy than larger fridges).

Of course, there are some downsides. If I want a beer or hard cider or just a glass of tomato juice, I’ve learned to enjoy drinking it at room temperature, or else I need to plan ahead and put my beverage in the mini-fridge to chill.

Warm cider, I have to admit, is an acquired taste. But I’ve discovered that I actually enjoy its rich, bold flavor at room temperature almost as much as I enjoy it cold.

It turns out that my wife likes sipping it warm, too, especially now that she can remove her noise-cancelling earphones in the kitchen and enjoy her drink in silence.

~Bruce Black

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