fridge triage
An emergency measure aimed at finding something - anything - edible in the fridge. Usually performed by dividing the contents into the palatable, the slightly dicy and the utterly unspeakable.
Two days before payday Jamie was forced to perform fridge triage, and ended up with a large, festering pile of black sludge that growled when he approached, several yogurts that were only a few weeks past their expiry date, and a perfectly edible stick of celery.