North Dakota: No Need To Refrigerate These 9 Foods

I have to admit, I've been doing a lot of these wrong.

What foods do you refrigerate and which ones shouldn't?  I had a chance to speak to a friend of mine who's a manager at a local grocery store in Bismarck, and he gave me a good idea of which ones you shouldn't and why.

Are you ready to open up some valuable space in your fridge?

Some of the reasons why you shouldn't refrigerate range from the fact that the food will not spoil, to the food will actually taste better at room temperature.  My mind was blown, again, I had no idea.

Think about it, when was the last time you walked into a restaurant and the ketchup was being refrigerated?  I can't say I ever have.  Those burgers and fries taste just fine with a warm red bottle of ketchup.

Yet for some reason in my home growing up, we always refrigerated the ketchup.  I've been doing the same thing in my home all these years.

Of these 9 foods, I'm about to show you, I think I've been refrigerating half of them.

That's a lot of valuable space I've been wasting in my fridge.  I don't know about you but it always seems like space is a commodity in my fridge with the variety of food we eat.

Again, thanks to my grocery guru friend for showing me a new way of life.  So, let's get to it.  North Dakota, these are the Top 9 Foods you should STOP refrigerating and why...