I refrigerate most everything except steak sauce & worshcheshire sauce.

My mom never refrigerated margarine when I was growing up and we didn't have a/c. She would put a couple sticks in a bowl at a time and always left them out on the table.

MIL & FIL do not refrigerate butter now, either.

I do. I don't like it hard either, so we have sticks to cook with, Smart Balance in a tub to use on hot things because it's hard like baked pototaes or in cooked veggies. I also keep tubs of Fleishmans Spread with olive oil for stuff like bread because it stays soft when cold.

ETA: Sarah, I bet she refigerates pasta to keep the bugs out. I do keep my flour in the freezer. I got those bugs once and had to throw out about 15 pounds of flour. It made me nuts because they had all been bought on sale!

Lisa

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