Woman puts salad bar in her fridge and it’s peak influencer nonsense

The pre-washed vegetables set out in matching plastic containers with their own dedicated drawer are designed to make everyone feel terrible about their life.

Micah Enriquez has put a salad bar in her fridge and I have so many problems with it.

I mean, the principle is good: she wants to eat more vegetables.

Great, so she pre-washes grape tomatoes, cuts up broccoli and grates carrots, boils eggs, ready to go.

“One of my New Year’s resolutions was to eat at least one salad per day,” she captioned the post.

“This system has really helped, and my husband has taken to eating more salads as well.”

The accompanying video is kind of obscene; it’s peak influencer nonsense.

The salad bar is in a pull-out drawer space below the double doors of her fridge and above the freeze.

It’s so pristine it doesn’t look like anyone is eating salad, or food really. In fact, it looks like no one is allowed to touch anything in the fridge at all.

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Influencer’s salad bar fridge is ridiculous

I thought we were still in the season of decanting everything into matching plastic containers.

I didn’t realise we were now buying fridges with special salad bar drawers completely with  carefully measured containers that somehow fit perfectly with no annoying spaces in between.

Let me take a moment to tell you about my fridge.

Every week, on grocery day, I clean it out, get rid of anything questionable, give the shelves and drawers a wash. And I do a pretty good job of organising things into categories. It’s not anything anyone wants to see on Instagram, but it works.

At the end of the week though, just before shopping day things get a bit hectic. Containers and food in bags are stuffed, willy-nilly, wherever they’ll fit.

At that point, when I open the fridge I’m poised, ninja-like, to catch anything that falls out. Loaf of bread tumbles towards my face? Caught it! Container of juice rolls off the top shelf? As if I’d let it hit the floor.

My fridge might be messy, but my reflexes are unbeatable.

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This fridge is not real life. Photo: Instagram

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I once asked an influencer who shared a fridge restock video where she put all her leftovers. Where were the quarter bits of cut onion wrapped in cling wrap? The odd bits of cheese? Didn’t she save the parmesan rinds in a ziplock bag to put in sauces and soups? And what about leftovers??

Where were all the ugly but necessary bits of food that don’t fit in aesthetically pleasing containers.

To her credit, she answered me truthfully. She admitted she had a second fridge.

A SECOND FRIDGE! That my friends, is cheating. I unfollowed her straight away. I don’t need anyone making me feel inadequate about my organisation skills when they themselves aren’t even walking the walk.

Which brings me back to Micah with her fancy, matte white, double-doored fridge.

Nobody lives like this Micah.

Good on you for trying to eat more veggies, but surely the era of the aspirational, fake influencer life has got to be ending soon.

Originally published as Woman puts salad bar in her fridge and it’s peak influencer nonsense