Loved the organization of this book and the pictures were amazing loved this book
Organization is great and practical the loved the recipes easy to follow

Fridge Love by Kristen Hong gave me a new appreciation for my fridge. This books has tons of ideas on how to really make the fridge work for me. Hong details how and when to clean your fridge, how to organize your fridge depending on your meal prep goals/abilities, what containers work best for different foods, and more! She even included a brief history on refrigerators and cooling foods. There are tons of ideas about individual foods and how to use them once you've diced, chopped and grated them!
It's been super trendy to organize your fridge lately. But if you're looking for the more advanced level of fridge organization (not just beautification!), you must get this book!

Thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Netgalley for my egalley!

I think this is a good book for tips to better organise your fridge and how to store certain products. I didn't enjoy the recipe section though as it wasn't what I was expecting and is plant based which is not always practical.
Worth a read for some tips but it wouldn't be a book I recommend for the recipes.

The organizational elements of this book are beautiful -visually this is the stuff of fridge goal dreams! The recipes are great if you are interested in a plant based diet,

Fridge Love is a game changer! Fantastic ideas recipes and suggestions for food prep, storage and cooking. I loved it and I highly recommend it!

While aesthetically pleasing and helpful for organizing, I don't think a vegan diet is a great idea any longer. I love this author's passion for health, consistency, progress over perfection, and eye-catching organization. And I love the gentle way she speaks to her readers. She's a great communicator. I'd just caution against a fully vegan diet.

Four Stars.
I would LOVE my fridge to look like any of the pictures in Fridge Love. All the fruits and vegetables, prepped and ready to go in lovely, perfectly arranged, color-coordinated containers… But in real life, that’s just not going to happen. Despite that, there are so many helpful hints and recipes in this book that I just might be able to get over the fact that my fridge isn’t exactly Instagram ready. I’m okay with that, because thanks to Fridge Love, my fridge is more organized and working for me and my life. And I think that’s the key of Fridge Love -- your fridge probably isn’t going to look like the author’s, but she offers so many great hints that there’s sure to be some you can use.

An unexpected bright spot of Fridge Love was the chapter on the history of refrigeration and food preservation, as well as all the explanation of the science behind food storage. I was surprised by how interesting it was! There are lots of great and easy plant based recipes included as well.

I’m so grateful to NetGalley and Mariner Books for the opportunity to read and review Fridge Love.

I picked up a few good tips about refrigerator organization and storing fruits/vegetables. I was not on board with the author's eating program. I was reading for refrigerator advice rather than diet advice.

When I first saw the arc for Fridge Love by Kristen Hong on NetGalley, it was an automatic click request for me. I’ve been on TikTok University watching lots of women use a ton of containers to organize their food. But I’m a book learner, so I want instructions on how to do it, not just watch someone do it in 1 minute or less. I found Fridge Love interesting because it addresses both organization and food prep.

A Work Of Art
This book will have your refrigerator looking a colorful work of art. Like I wouldn’t be surprised at all if someone decided to blow up and frame some of the photos in this book. I am already using some of the organization and storage techniques, although it is far from the visual works of art displayed in the book. But my mason jars are getting put to use right now as we speak, now that they are temporarily relieved of their canning duty.

From Disorganization To Healthy Eating
My fridge stays in a state of crisp disorganization. But the author, Kristen Hong, doesn’t just give you a way to re-organize your fridge. This woman gives you several options and includes the mechanics of how a high-functioning fridge will help you in everyday life. I’m not joking, she digs into the nitty gritty of how different fridge designs work and what to do to get them to operate to maximum potential.

The book is broken down into four parts:
1. Practicing Fridge Love
2. Fridge Settings, Cleaning, Storage, and Organization
3. The Produce Prep and Storage Guide
4. Recipes

Healthy Eating
I loved the recipes section. There were lots of beautiful pictures for many of the recipes. But I love that it is included so that you have plenty of ideas on standby for how to create healthy meals from your fresh produce. For me that was a game changer as a busy mom.

A Functional Fridge
By the time you are done, you will understand how your fridge functions, how to keep it organized, have cool tips for food storage and recipes up your sleeve. The likelihood of your food going to waste once you organize it will significantly drop.

So if you are still in spring cleaning mode, take a moment to check out this gem, Fridge Love by Kristen Hong.

Aside from the fabulous photography and great recipes, this book gave the reader usable systems to ensure their fridge is utilised in the best possible way, helping to organise to see the food on hand and prevent wastage.

Gorgeous illustrations, great tips and useful systems to help the reader become more organised in the kitchen and with food prep.
Thank you Marriner and NetGalley for this ARC.

Beautiful images and great organizational advice targeted to your nutritional/food prep goals. I had high hopes for this book and it was even better than I imagined. That sounds like high praise for a book about fridge organization, but my family has an insanely messy fridge.

I have to be honest, I don’t normally read books about refrigerators, but as a long-time fan of Hong’s Instagram pages where she wows with her food is organized in rainbow order in clear jars, I had to check it out. Hong first got into food organization when she was introduced to Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s nutritarian diet, which involves a lot of fruits, veggies, seeds and nuts. As someone who has dabbled in this diet, I know firsthand the hardest part of sticking with it was staying organized and prepared. Hong’s approach to fridge organization makes getting healthy food onto your plate easy and eye-pleasing. She offers organizational tips at various levels of fridge organization motivation. While I couldn’t wait to finish reading the sections on the history of the refrigerator or the mechanics of how a refrigerator works, the rest of the book has a lot to offer in terms of ways in which to organize a fridge, including what to do if you have people on different diets in the same household, which is something I struggle with. While I know my fridge will never look like Hong’s, I now have the tools to make my fridge more inviting and practical. The fridge envy never goes away, but this time, at least my veggies will be pre-chopped.

Do you have to throw out food from your fridge every week because you forgot to use it in time or you forgot about it because it was pushed behind something else? Not sure how to store fruits and vegetables to keep them fresh?

This is the book that you need to have!

I could stare at these organized fridge photos for hours! They are beautiful and I want to reorganize my entire fridge tonight!

The plant based recipes are great and provide ideas for some easy, healthy jams, soups, salads, oatmeals and snack ideas.

The best information comes in the section for how to clean and store fruits and veggies. It’s broken out by specific type and provides so much great info.

Thank you #Harvest and #NetGalley for this review copy. All opinions expressed are my own.

The organization shown in this book is so satisfying that I felt a little dirty looking at it. In all seriousness, there are a lot of useful tips and I know I’ll be using them (or at least trying to!) in the future. Now it’s time to go cool off with the freezer door open.

Does your fridge need a makeover? According to Kristen Hong, anyone can organize their fridge and learn to keep foods longer; the instructions are included in Fridge Love: Organize Your Refrigerator for a Healthier, Happier Life―with 100 Recipes . The book has excellent instruction for making your fridge perfect. Unfortunately, most people will find that while everything works as the author suggests, it isn’t really something that can be accomplished in real life. Rather, a perfect fridge is for many, an aspect of dreamland. Also, to follow the author’s suggestions by purchasing perfect containers, all the same, is quite expensive and will result in spending hundreds of dollars to get the fridge set up.

Some of the best parts of this book are the chapters on keeping foods fresh. The suggestions are good and they actually work. The recipes in the book are nice, and most are very healthy. They aren’t however, recipes that many mainstream cooks won’t want to make.

While the idea is good, it doesn’t really seem like something that could be accomplished in real life, especially when most people have different things to put in their fridges. Sometimes we crave food that isn’t on the list or won’t fit in the proper container.

All told, anyone who wants to have a perfectly organized, impeccably clean fridge, or anyone who has OCD will appreciate this book. Many critics have given it 5 stars; what world are they living in? Once reality sets in, most will use many of the suggestions, but will realize that perfection isn’t possible for those of us who actually use our fridge to store food that doesn’t fit into the perfect containers. The book has excellent information that almost everyone will appreciate, and it’s a book that will be very helpful for those who include it in their cookbook collection. This isn’t a book for everyone.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I picked up Fridge Love to check out primarily because my daughter has been attempting to organize our fridge. She’s purchased containers and has started organizing it, but I thought this book would offer some ideas and inspirations for her that she hadn’t spotted on the internet.

As I started reading, I found there was quite a few helpful tips as well as some information that I found a little boring, and even the boring stuff I found informative. Who knew how a fridge really worked! The suggestion and illustrations certainly were inspiring while I found several tasty recipes to try. Really this book reads as a Fridge 101 and had me motivated enough to give my daughter suggestions. And that’s when I lost possession of the book.

She took the book from me and devoured it. It’s changed the way she shops, and our fridge is simply amazing now. Got to say, I had my doubts about Fridge Love. I thought it would be just a pretty book to flip through. Instead it has become a new way of life for my family. If you know someone looking to make a change in their kitchen, I definitely recommend this book.


Stars: 4
I received this book from Netgalley. I was not compensated for the book other than the entertainment it provided. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book initially looks like an instagram fridge goals kind of book. Then she goes into fridge science and then you know she means business. I do wish there were some more pictures in the vegetable and fruits list and also some more fridge pictures.

The recipes are some that inspire me to make some healthier lunches for work.

The title of this book drew me in and once I started reading ....along with drooling over the gorgeous photographs....I was hooked! I dream of looking inside my refrigerator one day and seeing something similar to what is on these pages reflecting back at me. This has not happened yet, but my dream is still alive.

I was impressed by the well-researched information regarding refrigerators and the food that we buy to go in it properly. I say "properly" because I actually learned a lot about the correct way to store certain produce especially. This book has changed my lettuce game for the better, and I formerly struggled with too-soon wilted lettuce on the regular. But, not anymore.

Readers will also learn about what to look for when shopping in the grocery’s produce section to bring home the best, and ripest, choices. Healthy eating could start in your refrigerator, but it really begins at the grocery store. There is a wealth of good information here to get you on the right track.

Then, after learning about how to choose and ultimately the proper storage of your groceries, there are recipes to use up your food AND meal prep strategies to make the most of your meals. Hong promotes a Nutritarian eating style with lots of fruits and vegetables, so the recipes are plant-focused.

I very much enjoyed this book and appreciated the consideration given to environmental and organic issues. The only negative that I have is that my particular type of refrigerator model with a freezer on the bottom was not covered; because that would have made Fridge Love exactly what I needed. (4.5 stars)

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book. All opinions are my own. In advance of spring cleaning, Hong's book will teach you about maintaining the interior of your refrigerator to avoid throwing away food unnecessarily. If you eat a plant-based diet, you'll find recipes here!

Fridge Love by Kirsten Hong

This book took me on a journey. It reminded me of days when we did not have electricity and would freeze ice blocks to put in the fridge, of going through containers trying to find the “safe” ones, of trying to cook for a vegetarian daughter and a carnivore son, of trying to find ways to store all the produce from our garden and still find it in the fridge, and it reminded me of my personal journey to a healthier lifestyle although I did not follow the one this author chose for herself.

The book does a deep dive into the history of refrigerators, discusses the mechanics that they are based on, which part of the refrigerator is coldest, the types of refrigerators and how they vary, where to put different types of foods, storage container pros and cons, cleaning of the refrigerator – how often and how to do it, etc.

There is a section on how to deal with produce from washing to preparing to storing of it that would be handy till one knew all the ins and outs of all the produce they were likely to put into their refridgerator

The recipes were simple but tasty sounding and as a predominately plant based cook I always am on the lookout for recipes to try…there were a few in this book that I might be tempted by…if I am able to find the ingredients here in Lebanon.

The photographs were gorgeous and made me wish I had access to all of the containers in perfect sized with matching covers…don’t see that happening any time soon but it is nice to dream.

I admire the effort put into this book, the information shared, and the sincerity behind the author’s writing. I know how difficult it can be to create meals daily for four people and not have them all on the same dietary program.

I would actually like to have a hard copy of this book in my kitchen to look through and to cook from because I much prefer hardcopy cookbooks to the ebook version.

I believe there is information that is valuable in the book but it is definitely geared more for the whole food plant-based whole food cook and perhaps for those earlier in their cooking history. This is not just a food organization book or a cookbook but a bit of both with personal anecdotes and a lot about how refrigerators work.

Thank you to NetGalley and Mariner Books for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4 Stars