North Dakota, Stop Refrigerating These 9 Foods!

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

What foods to refrigerate and which ones shouldn't we?  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.  Mind 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?  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. 

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...