Listening Practice: Everyday American English - What’s in my fridge?

listen what do I want to say listen but what do  I want to say hey what's up Stefanie the English  

coach here from englishfulltime.com today I have  a fun easy English practice video for you that  

I'm sure is going to have a ton of vocab and  if you really want to study that vocab go to  

the link in the description because I am going  to have a professionally created transcript PDF  

transcript for you so you can download it print  it study it Circle things highlight things write  

in the margins okay all the wonderful things that  you should do when you have this kind of material  

because it will help you go even deeper into your  learning but did I already say we're going to look  

inside my fridge I'm going to show you what's in  our fridge but it's going to be more than that  

actually it's not just going to be like here's  all the food I want to talk to you about why  

some of these things are here like what choices  we've made uh what we think about when we're  

buying food I want to talk about like our eating  habits our grocery shopping habits and what it's  

like here in the US because maybe where you live  things are different here I have the fridge we'll  

take a quick look inside it's pretty full Renzo  just did my husband just did a big um grocery  

shopping trip okay so um let me set up my camera  on the tripod and we shall get started okay so the  

first thing that I'm going to say before I start  pulling stuff out of the refrigerator is that here  

in the US we tend to buy things in bulk because  grocery stores are usually generally pretty far  

away from us the way cities are designed we have  residential areas where people live and then we  

have commercial areas where we have businesses and  the two do not generally mix so there can be these  

huge neighborhoods expansive big neighborhoods and  you have to literally Drive several miles out of  

the neighborhoods in order to go to a grocery  store so when you go you try to stock up good  

vocab word you try to stock up on everything that  you need for like the next week or two or maybe  

even the next month depending on how far away  you live from a grocery store we tend to do I  

would say like two to three big grocery trips  a month and then um throughout the month we do  

smaller trips if we run out of like sour cream  or something like that okay so grocery St St  

are far away we buy in bulk um some people even  have multiple refrigerators here in the US like  

that is very common to have a a refrigerate a  refrigerator I need to stop saying refrigerator  

that's why we have the word fridge so it's very  common for someone to have or for people to have  

a fridge in their kitchen and then an extra backup  fridge in their garage or a backup freezer anyways  

I'll just start pulling stuff out of the fridge  and we'll just go from there okay we're starting  

with condiments now we have three types of  mustards this is like your regular classic  

mustard the kind you know I was going to say the  kind I grew up with as a kid but no I actually  

grew up with all these mustards but this is like  the kind that most Americans grow up with then we  

have Deon and we have spicy Brown is that what  oh no it says Deon mustard also but I grew up  

calling this spicy Brown unless spicy Brown is  like a different kind but anyways we have a nice  

variety of must mustards here and I like them  all okay we have quite a few condiments we have  

organic ketchup now that is something I don't buy  organic everything I would love to but so far we  

just do a little bit of or organic here a little  bit there it's more expensive sometimes it tastes  

better they say it's healthier for you which I  believe sometimes Renzo doesn't quite believe  

that so this is why we don't buy all organic  but um we have two types of ketchup this is  

unsweetened ketchup so it kind of just tastes like  sour tomato sauce and I mix it sometimes with the  

sweetened organic ketchup so that it lasts longer  and it has less sugar I try to avoid sugar as much  

as possible for me my family the kids Etc then we  have um mild barbecue sauce and I avoid getting  

anything anything that has high fructose corn  syrup it is so bad for you so none of these things  

are going to have high fructose corn syrup seed  oils hydrogenated oils like all of those things  

that cause a ton of inflammation in the body so  that's something that I'm hyper aware of living  

here in the US like you guys probably already know  our health here in the US we are in a crisis okay  

heart disease cancer diabetes obesity it's crazy  and you actually have to work really hard and be  

very proactive about your health to stay healthy  cuz if you just buy whatever um you will go down  

a path you don't want to go down very quickly  and I actually already struggle with a lot  

of digestive issues that I've had for years  unfortunately so um I just have to be really  

careful and we've been cleaning up our diet for  the last several years I remember when we first  

moved into this house a few years ago we used to  buy Hot Cheetos first of all I can't even eat hot  

cheetos anymore the last time I tried I threw up  I don't know what that's about but I also believe  

it has like the red 40 the red dye the 40 whatever  it's called in it which is horrible for health and  

and um Child Development and stuff like that so  anyways I was telling Renzo like wow you know I  

told him this like a couple years ago we don't  buy that anymore so we're constantly just like  

re-evaluating our diet and what we eat and trying  to be as healthy as possible it's not easy but  

we're sort of sticking to a Whole Foods based diet  make a lot of home-cooked meals try not to eat  

out try not to buy too much prepackaged food and  if it is prepackaged like obviously this is you  

know packaged we check the ingredients every time  Renzo comes home cuz he does most of the grocery  

shopping with new foods we have never really  had gotten before I'm always like did you check  

the ingredients and he's like yes I checked the  ingredients and if he forgets sometimes we have to  

return the items because there will be a sneaky  little ingredient in there like hydrogenated  

vegetable oil and I'm like no we're not eating  that that's that's so bad for you okay these  

things are kind of random um some honey every  time I have to use it I have to like warm it up  

cuz it gets hard in there but sometimes we have  to put sweet foods like this in the refrigerator  

because if not we might get like an Ant Invasion  and I want to avoid that we have super glue I  

don't know if this extends the life of the glue  or if I just grew up doing this but we have our  

superg glue in there and then I have children's  uh vitamins in liquid form so we put this in their  

juice and when we give juice to the kids we just  mix 50% juice 50% water we also have the random  

little magnets in there I use these magnets to  create magnets for our oh man I'm just envisioning  

our editor the the my friend who transcribes our  our video content she's going to be like magnets  

for the magnets anyways um I make we make magnets  for our refrigerator out of objects if they have  

sentimental value or something like that for  example this was like a little piece of ceramic  

that I found in our last trip to Italy on one of  the beaches this was something to hang on the wall  

that a subscriber a YouTube subscriber sent to me  years ago like when I first started out my YouTube  

Journey now you can't really send me anything  because I don't have a PO Box anymore I just have  

a digital mailbox so sorry okay okay here we have  unfiltered apple juice and coconut water see it  

says no sugar added not from con conate very very  important and with this we just got through one of  

the doors I don't know how I'm going to show you  all of this food this is going to be like an hour  

long video okay here we have brown sugar again I  keep this in the fridge so that the ants don't get  

it and then sour cream here we have fire roasted  red peppers um tahini and peanut butter this is  

a spicy habanero mango pepper sauce that Renzo  got recently this is we don't generally get new  

foods anymore because we kind of figured out what  we like and where to buy those foods from and we  

just get the same things over and over again cuz  it Tes I'm not kidding it takes so much effort to  

find Foods here in this country that have not  been adulterated in any way that do not have  

horrible ingredients that are not Ultra processed  you literally have to stick to like fresh fruit  

fresh vegetables beans lentils and meat and like  nothing prepackaged practically uh and then the  

prepackaged stuff it's just so hard to find stuff  that is not awful for you if I sound passionate  

about this topic it's because I am and if and the  reason I am is because I have suffered suffered  

for years with major GI issues okay and when you  just suffer year after year after year you really  

have to watch what you eat it's not necessarily  fun it's probably better for you in the long run  

but it's just a real big frustration anyways let's  let's move on here we have peanut butter I don't  

like this one as much in fact I don't even know  what to do with it cuz our other peanut butter is  

normal and it's so good this one has coconut oil  spread in it and I'm just like peanuts and coconut  

oil it's not the best combination I don't remember  if I showed you the Tapatio Tapatio uh but we have  

this hot sauce we also have the antha okay and  then we have fish sauce we never used to buy fish  

sauce this is like not a normal item you'll find  in most American Homes but my sister-in-law is  

mong and she taught us a really awesome recipe  like a sauce that you make with fish sauce and  

spicy peppers and ground up Garlic it's really  good anyways we make that sauce now and so we need  

this ingredient and we don't even know what else  to do with this but that's that's all we use it  

for next we have maple syrup this is so important  for like pancakes waffles very traditional here  

but if you're ever going to get this please please  get the real stuff because they make fake maple  

syrup and it's just so bad for you this is like  no longer an English learning Channel I have  

turned it into a what what are those channels  about food and health I'm sorry but welcome to  

my life okay we're about to wrap up the sauces  I have a sweet chili sauce over here which Arlo  

loves my son he's almost four then we have a Teri  sauce um oh my goodness you guys how do we say

this I should have looked up the pronunciation  of this word before making a video on my English  

Channel about it wish desire no that's not it  oh my goodness okay I will do my due diligence  

I will look it up this is not a word that people  just know how to pronounce okay everyone says it  

a million different ways wer wer sauce I'm  pretty sure I've never heard it like that in  

my life other than in pronunciation tutorials  on the internet anyways I don't know how do  

you say this word how would I ask for this in a  restaurant do you have any wordes to I don't know  

okay congratulations to us we made it through the  other door of the fridge now we can work through  

the fridge from top to bottom or bottom to top  what should we do let's just go from bottom to  

top let's try that okay this is a pack of pork  shoulder country style ribs boneless okay and  

we marinate this in a homemade I don't know if  the word is marinade cuz we don't really let  

it sit we just mix it with some seasoning and  some homemade mayonnaise and then we grill it  

and it is delicious and lately we've been eating  it with some sauerkraut that we found at grocery  

outlet and it's it's really good especially with  mustard and you know over here we have choices  

when it comes to mustard okay next we have um beef  back ribs and just in case anybody was wondering  

this was $172 4 what do you think is that a good  price or not you're probably like oh my goodness  

Stephanie that is an obscene amount of meat what  are you going to do with all of that the answer  

my friends is I'm going to eat it but no uh what  we like to do over here is we have like one day a  

week where we do the grilling when I say weat  I mean Renzo of course he's from Argentina of  

course he's going to be the one grilling the meat  anyways he grills a bunch of meat he takes like a  

couple hours and he grills all the meat and  then we can freeze some of it put a bunch in  

the fridge and then we just have it ready to go  all week long and we don't have to spend as much  

time you know making lunch and dinner I really  love having ready to go homecooked hom grilled  

meat my body loves it my digestive system loves  it it's one of the things I can eat with almost  

no issues so and it has a lot of vitamins okay  you know when you go through your fridge to make  

a video for Youtube and then you realize there's  a bunch of stuff in there you forgot you had oops  

this I don't know how to say this it says BK n  sausage with chili pepper this is something that  

my mom um sister-in-law accidentally left here one  time and she told us we can eat it she's like oh  

yeah just go ahead you can eat it but she had  also said something about it being raw or like  

a cured meat I don't know but I also did not have  the confidence to eat this on my own without her  

showing me how to do it even though she literally  said just cut it up and eat it I'm like n so I  

I don't even know if this is still good but um  we'll see and then over here in this container  

we have our bacon there's only two strips left  okay so many things so many things to go through  

this is fresh mozzarella I love putting this in  salad especially with basil and tomato this is  

just regular butter this is cream cheese and I  wonder like are you familiar with all the foods  

I'm showing you or are there things that you're  like oh my goodness I've never seen that in my  

life Renzo found these turkey sausages at grocery  outlet and he cannot help himself when he finds a  

good deal and he finds good deals all the time  at Grocery Outlet it's kind of like a discount  

grocery store and he just came so he buys these  things that we've never tried and then we get  

these little surprises like oh new food to try  but I tried these and I just didn't like it but  

it's really funny because the people that check  check us out of the grocery store they're always  

congratulating him like wow you found four of  these things for 2 cents each that's an insane  

deal and he's like I know so it's great anyways  then I have here smoked salmon and this came in a  

much bigger pack but this is all that's left more  food okay so this is feta cheese ham I'm thinking  

we should probably actually cut this okay divide  it and put one of these in the freezer for later  

on cuz it takes us a while to get through one of  these packs of ham then we have sliced pre-sliced  

cheese this is havari this is very common in the  US to be able to buy pre-sliced cheese oh I need  

to throw this away so this was me this was me in  Grocery Outlet buying things that are like you  

know stuff we never tried before and that turned  out to be gross this I shouldn't even show you  

it's it's some kind of grain-free tortilla but  when I bought it I mean you can't tell when you  

buy it but then I brought it home and I smelled it  smells so bad my kids loved it though I felt like  

a bad mom for giving it to them but anyways then  we just have regular eggs okay we made it through  

the bottom drawer now we have to go through  two smaller drawers and then two big shelves  

oh my goodness okay so let's carry on now we're  getting to some vegetables you're probably like  

finally oh my goodness it's so nice to know this  girl eats vegetables we have a sweet potato some  

limes some carrots some tomatoes lettuce this is  Roma lettuce a bell pepper a green bell pepper and  

then we have a pack here of zucchini and summer  squash yellow summer squash and some strawberries  

and I love putting berri in my yogurt and I'll  show you the yogurt that I get in a second but  

I generally get plain yogurt I don't like sugar  added or anything like that and the more sour the  

better that's the kind of yogurt I like and if I  want a little more sweetness I mean that's what we  

have the fruit for but also I might add a little  bit of maple syrup and it is so Good by the way  

if you're learning something from this please go  ahead and like the video subscribe if you're not  

already subscribed and I also have other areas of  my house which would you like to see my office or  

my pantry let me know in the comments which part  of my house I should show you next okay so more  

veggies we have celery mini cucumbers uh I really  love these for snacks like with cream cheese and  

I'll grab something from my cupboard this we get  this at Trader Joe's I don't know if you can get  

it other places but it's called Everything But  the bagel sesame seed blend you can put cream  

like cut this up into little slices put cream  cheese and then put this on top and it's a really  

great snack the kids love it so Mama's happy uh  we have some mushrooms I like sautéing mushrooms  

kind of in bulk we have two packs another one  in the fridge and then I can just leave it  

throughout the week and it makes making Gourmet  omelets really easy or you know other Foods too  

okay um this is cilantro little baby carrots these  are great snacks for the kids for Arlo my almost  

four-year-old because Rocco he eats them like  a little rabbit and then spits them out and I  

guess it's cuz he just can't bite them and like  grind them up well enough to be able to swallow  

so I find little pieces of carrot just sprinkled  on the table when he's done with that snack okay  

um cabbage and then sorrano Chili Peppers I got  these because I had been buying the jalapenos  

because I love spicy peppers but the jalapenos I  don't know what's going on they are no longer hot  

it's like a bell pepper with like a little bit  of spice and it's like no I really really want  

to feel that spice inside my mouth and so this is  like a step up okay we're finally doing the middle  

shelf now and then we just have the top shelf so  we're making progress here we have blueberries  

and don't ask me why I have this big bag of onions  I can't even eat onions they do terrible things  

to me and my body doesn't like them I can't  digest them and so we just don't really cook  

with onions anymore we haven't for like over a  year and I don't know why I bought onions like  

I don't know I bought onions okay this is our  homemade mayonnaise super easy to make tasty  

and I love it because most of the mayonnaises you  buy here are just highly processed seed oils that  

are very inflammatory to your body okay this  is a bread that we discovered my psychiatrist  

recommended it actually I've known about this  bread for years but I never bought it myself my  

parents used to buy this bread it's called Ezekiel  Bread it's sprouted grain bread um so it's made  

from wheat barley beans lentils Millet and spelt  leftover yogurt from the kids that they didn't  

finish eating okay this is an invention I found a  recipe on Instagram and it was like two ingredient  

cookies just use almond flour and bananas so I'm  like that looks easy I'll make it and I made it  

and I was like I mean it's not that good but  the kids like it so that's a plus anyways next  

we have um Mexican style blend cheese this is what  Americans call Mexican style blend cheese okay so  

if the Mexicans are watching this going that's not  Mexican cheese oh well next we have cherries and  

if you live in the US look for these in stores  like Grocery Outlet discounted grocery stores  

because cherries can be really expensive the price  per pound but I think we get them at like $2 a  

pound which for Cherries is a good deal okay next  more leftovers this was the kids hamburger from or  

hamburger patty from last night that they didn't  finish okay so to wrap up the middle shelf here  

we have organic hemp Parts I like putting this  on salad what is in here oh this is a hamburger  

patty leftover from today so I made myself  hamburger patties I just had one and then this  

is the leftover with cheese on top then apples I  also made some lentils today and this is what's  

left over we're going to eat this throughout  the week next we have minced garlic when Ren  

first brought this home I was kind of like uh are  we even going to use that and I've actually been  

using it quite a lot I love how convenient it is  um I don't have to mince my own garlic and the  

flavor is good too okay a few kombuchas these were  on sale at Costco and so we got some I asked Renzo  

I was like hey I think the kombucha is on sale at  Costco will you buy some and he did okay and then  

this is parmesan cheese it comes pre- shredded  and sundried tomatoes in olive oil and Italian  

herbs this is really good with like sauteed  vegetables omelets that kind of stuff okay now I  

have everything else from the top shelf and we're  going to just try to get through it as fast as we  

can so this is the sauerkraut that I was telling  you about it says Bavarian Style it's pretty good  

this is huge it's heavy whipping cream but we  have coffee every day and I have found we have  

found that coffee with heavy whipping cream tastes  so much better than coffee with just half and half  

or milk I do not like coffee with milk so molasses  I've had this forever and I think I only used it  

once or twice in a recipe for homemade barbecue  sauce other than that I mean we don't ever use  

it next this ny's probiotic whole milk yog yogurt  this is my favorite yogurt actually there was one  

more that I tried several years ago when we were  on vacation in Florida but I could not find that  

brand here and I already forgot what it was but um  this is my favorite one it's super sour you have  

to like sour yogurt or do something to sweeten it  up but it has 41 billion live probiotics and I've  

tried so many yogurts here just looking for you  know a good plain yogurt and this is definitely  

one of them for me but it's very sour okay we have  pitted Greek camada olives and this is our water  

filter pitcher is that what it's called yes well  I mean it's a water pitcher that filters water so  

yes that's what it's called okay uh leftovers just  some plain white rice an avocado and this one is  

like ripe ready to go ready to eat so it's in the  fridge but the other ones are on the counter cuz  

they're still a little bit hard so I'm waiting  for them to ripen and then I will transfer them  

to the fridge over here we have bones these are  just beef bones you know earlier where I showed  

you the the rack of beef ribs so we grill it  we eat the beef and then we store the bones and  

Renzo makes bone broth with them in our insta pot  and he found a recipe that's really good and you  

know bone broth has lots of collagen and good  things for your skin so that's kind of a newer  

thing that we started and it's cool because we're  able to make something else with material that  

previously we would just throw away okay next  ground flax seed I like putting this on salads  

as well here we have apple cider vinegar this is  dry yeast we don't use it very often but we have  

it if we need it pickles these ones are little  pickles strawberry jam or strawberry spread I  

guess this one is called Capers I feel so fancy  when I eat Capers we usually put capers in our  

salad and by usually I mean we started this like  a few weeks ago Renzo got this at Costco I think  

and I was like oh there's this French girl that  I follow uh on Instagram and she's always cooking  

and she's always like sprinkling her food with  capers and she lives in London so she says Capas  

Capas so anyhow I just feel so fany when I eat  them oh and I never ate them before in my life  

that I can recall this is like a totally new thing  and I'm like how have I lived all these years with  

without Capers they're amazing lemon I found like  three of these in our fridge a lemon that's only  

half a lemon cuz you know you put things in the  fridge and then they just get lost at least when  

you have the amount of stuff that we do in the  fridge oh and another thing you have to be really  

careful when you have this much stuff so that food  doesn't go bad and that is something unfortunately  

that happens with a lot of people here they just  forget they have this in the fridge or that in the  

fridge and then it expires or it goes bad or it  gets moldy then you have to throw it out we try to  

throw out as little as possible okay and the last  thing I'm going to show you is very personal it's  

sad too so this this is sauerkraut and I don't  know if these are pickled green beans or just  

preserved green beans but this is one of the last  things or I think the last thing that my dad gave  

me before he died a couple years ago and they've  been in my fridge ever since like never consumed  

it and I also never threw it away and now I feel  like I'm in limbo like what should I do with this  

knowing that it's the very last thing my dad  gave me I want to hold on to it you know but  

it's like food items it's like step that's come  on but I'm like but they're preserved they can't  

go bad anyways I will figure out what to do with  this eventually eventually am I going to eat it  

technically it should still be good am I going to  throw it away am I going to keep it forever what  

what am I going to do maybe a good in between  would be getting rid of the contents inside and  

then keeping the jars I don't know but you know  how we can get very sentimental about things that  

were given to us by people we love when those  people then pass away and it's like ah that was  

the last item they gave me so there it is that I  keep it in my fridge along with all my other food  

hopefully that doesn't weird you out too much I  just yeah I just don't even know what to do with  

it okay so please let let us know in the comments  was this video helpful informative at the very  

least entertaining did you learn something if you  learned any new words or vocabulary please share  

that with us in the comments and of course feel  free to make any observations that you want about  

our way of eating here remember this is just  my way of eating this is not reflective of the  

standard American diet at all I know that there is  packaged Foods in here and stuff but everything is  

generally not generally it's very clean it's very  clean compared to the standard American diet so I  

couldn't I couldn't show you the standard American  diet even if I wanted to cuz we just don't have  

those Foods in our home okay but anyhow you can  feel free to compare and contrast this to how  

you eat the types of foods that you eat or how you  store food based on your culture and I don't know  

maybe you live very close to a grocery store and  you don't have to do these big grocery hauls every  

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