You must choose one in this house! (kind of)
At the beginning of our stay-at-home order, I reorganized our freezer to make room for VITAL food items – cookies and ice cream! I removed the freezer packs (ha, where were we going that we’d need to keep our food cool in transit?) and the ice cube tray.
So. We have zero ice. Where the ice normally lives, is a stash of cookies instead:
This hasn’t been an issue for us. There were only three times over the past two months that Steven asked if we still don’t have ice. (NO, LOOK AT MY OUR BEAUTIFUL COOKIES.) We just aren’t big ice users. I rarely add it to a drink. I don’t like drinking really cold things and mostly drink water, which I prefer at room temperature. YUM.
But that’s got to be odd. Tell me about your ice usage habits in the following poll! (yes, this is what my blog has resorted to)
Loading ...Ha, I am not even going to get in to cubed ice versus crushed ice. I know people are VERY opinionated about the shape and size of their ice (the Sonic ice comes to mind?)! I distinctly remember one holiday where a family member brought their own ice to use in their soda all day. Ha ha ha. Ha. Ha.
I’ll definitely move my cookies (IN TO MY STOMACH) and put the ice tray back in when we have guests coming over again. But until then… it looks like I have room for more cookies!
Our freezer has an ice maker…but it’s broken. Fine by us, tho, because we only use ice in cocktails. We’ve started making margaritas more often recently so we had to bust out some ice trays so we’d have ice for them!
Do you guys have the fun Star Wars themed ice cube trays? For some reason I’ve received a lot of those as gifts 😉
I’m not usually a big ice person, but during this pregnancy I can only drink ice cold water so I using a ton of ice, which is good because our ice maker is stuck on extra ice mode so no matter what we do it cranks out tons of ice. Otherwise normally I like cool water in the summer and room temp in the winter.
Oh my gosh! Good thing you are using so much of it!!! Did you not crave ice as much during your first pregnancy?
My first pregnancy I actually wanted warm water! This conversation about water temperature reminds me of Italy. Before I went running I’d put my water bottle in the fridge so I would have cold water when I got back. My Italian host Mom would always take it out and tell me that cold water was bad for me. She believed cold water would cause an intestinal blockage. Did you ever hear this in Italy?
Oh my gosh! No, I never heard that there! Wow! I need to find someone who is still there to ask.
A friend of mine did a stay with a host family in South Korea your story makes me think of some of her food struggles with them.
I didn’t used to use ice, but I got an insulated cup as a gift and now I use it everyday. I HATE the condensation from ice when using it in a regular cup or glass, so I was never in the habit of using it until very recently 🙂
Aww, what is the design on your cup? Was it custom? I have seen so many cute custom ones (and have received two of them).
It’s a Blackhawks cup!
I cannot drink room temperature water. It makes me gag. LOL. Lukewarm water to me feels like it’s more viscous. Almost everything I drink has to be really cold. I put ice in everything. Getting a hydroflask was the best thing EVER!! It keeps my water ice cold for days.
Getting a hydroflask was the best thing ever! What did you do before? Constantly add ice all the time?
Yeah, I would have to walk to another building at work to get ice and fill my water bottle. I’m a high maintenance hydrator.
We have an ice maker in our fridge, but the bucket that holds the ice got demoted when we stocked up on frozen foods at the end of February. Now that it’s hot out (and forgot to buy frozen garlic bread at the store this weekend, giving us more space for the time being, haha), the ice bucket has returned to the freezer and the ice maker is back on. I really only have ice in my drinks at restaurants, so it hasn’t bothered me. I would definitely prioritize cookies! I feel like ice just gets in the way of what I’m trying to drink. But I don’t have strong feelings about it, or water temperature (now that I’ve had my root canal, that is. Prior to the root canal, I had very strong feelings about water temperature, because anything that wasn’t room temperature made my mouth hurt, ha). I take water with ice at restaurants because that’s normally how they serve it, and water without ice at home because the water from the Brita is plenty cold for me.
So when your bucket is in, does the ice just sit there unused for a long time like ours does? Then somehow get little bits of food in it? (lol, gross)
Oh gosh, so do you feel better drinking different temperatures after the root canal? This is not the same, but made me think of it – I overbrushed my gums and wore them down on one side and can’t chew fruit (like strawberries and pineapple) on that side without pain anymore! Oops!
Oh yeah, totally. We use ice so infrequently (and in such small amounts) that there’s really no need to have a full bucket at all times/ever, so most of it just gets “stale” and gross. The only time I’ve ever found it to be a useful feature was during marathon training when I’d take ice baths, because then I could collect full buckets over the course of a few days and not have to buy a bag of ice. But the like four times per year I’d take an ice bath during marathon training doesn’t really justify having an ice maker!
I feel SO MUCH BETTER. I didn’t realize how much constant pain my mouth was in until they did the root canal and all of a sudden I could drink water straight out of the fridge without wincing and chew on both sides of my mouth. Most importantly, I can enjoy ice cream again, which in and of itself was a good enough reason to get the root canal done 😛
Ahh ice baths. A sometimes necessary evil. (Although, after a hot run and sitting in there as it fills up with cold water then adding the ice… it never felt THAT bad).
Oh yay! I am so glad to hear that. ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE ICE CREAM. Whoa. That is not a sacrifice worth making 😉
Definitely cookies! Our freezer is full of frozen cookie dough, soups, broth, beans, bread, chili pepper flakes, dried anchovies, and other food. We definitely don’t have room for something like ice.
(That’s not true: we have two giant ice ball molds that I keep on hand. We originally bought them for fancy cocktails, but I keep them around for the odd time that I need to cool down blanched vegetables or hard-boiled eggs quickly.)
YASSSSSSSSS. Your freezer sounds like it’s full of good stuff!!!! What kind of cookie dough do you have frozen in there?
I have a mold like that too – of the Death Star – I am doing to fill those up right now so Steven has an ice ball if he wants one!