Eating the Refrigerator Clean

It’s is about to be spring break around here. Seems weird since we have had spring for the last two months. It has hardly been a harsh winter that needs escaping. Instead it has been a pleasant weather calendar year so far that is barely making up for the nightmare political year.

I need spring break to run away from news.
The only thing I hate in these pre-spring break days is the feeling that I need to eat the food in my fridge and not purchase anything new that might go to waste. This goes only for fresh, not frozen food, which can’t languish in the zero tundra of the freezer for months after I get home from break.  
So now I look in the fridge and lament the asparagus and Brussels sprouts I bought days ago and have not eaten yet, along with the leftover container of broccoli and multiple small chucks of various cheeses. Since I really don’t want a meal of these items it dawns on me that if I put some of them together with eggs I can make a frittata where the sum of the parts is better than they are alone.
I vote the Brussels sprouts out of the dish since those mini cabbages are uncooked and might survive an extra week in the veggie drawer. I blanch the asparagus, saute an onion and put it all in a baking dish with the leftover broccoli. A dozen eggs whipped up with some salt and pepper poured over the veggie and the many bits of leftover cheese on top finishes up the dish. Thirty minutes on 350 and I have a brand new main course from what was just sides and apps. I have decided the frittata is the pre-vacation best friend to cleaning out the fridge. The combinations of things that can be put together are endless, but almost all of them will benefit from addition of onion.
Now I am looking at the half full bottle of milk and am thinking that if I go very light on my morning cereal I can make it last just the right number of days, that is as long as it does not turn before hand. Sometimes I wish I was not so frugal, but I know I still won’t drink milk that might make my stomach unhappy, especially right before a trip. Thank goodness I don’t have any leftover fish.