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DocsFridge Simulator

Docs · simulation

Feed the world. One fridge at a time.

Fridge Simulator is a food-logistics sim: buy emoji foods from five shops, stock fridges for families in five countries, and keep everyone fed as the days advance. Your run lives in cloud save slots, so it follows you between phone and desktop.

34: emoji foods
5: shops · 5 countries
4: cloud save slots
0: slot 0: cheat-proof

🍗 Buy🧊 Stock⏭️ Next day🍽️ Feed

The loop

Buy, stock, next day, feed

Each run is one loop: spend budget at the shops, load food into country fridges, advance the day, and watch each family member eat. Every day survived drains nutrition, so a stocked fridge is a living one.

Buy food for the budget
Open a shop and spend that country's budget on emoji foods. Grocery and Wholesale stock everything; Pantry, Charity, and Dumpster offer a random dozen at a discount — Dumpster food can spoil.
Stock each country's fridge
Load food into fridge slots. Family members eat preferred foods first and fall back to whatever is stocked, so match each country's tastes (see the foods table).
Advance the day
Hit Next Day: every family member eats once and every nutrition channel decays. Empty fridge, hungry family — plan one day ahead, always.
Save, then resume anywhere
Your run persists in cloud save slots 0-3 under the game slug fridgesimulator. Sign in on another device, load the same slot, and keep playing — see the resume guide.

Strategy

Play the groceries, not the lottery

The math is public, so play it. Nutrition is a triple — protein, carbs, vitamins — and every channel decays each day. One-sided diets starve even full bellies.

4weird.com - day planner

fridgesimulator

PROTEIN · 🥩 Steak 60 + 🍗 Chicken 50stock reds

CARBS · 🍝 Pasta 60 + 🍞 Bread 50stock ambers

VITAMINS · 🍊 Orange 45 + 🥦 Broccoli 45stock greens

DAILY DECAY · every channel−15 / day

families eat preferred foods first · fallback is whatever is stocked

Cover all three channels: protein-only (🍗🥩🍖🐟) leaves vitamins at zero while they still decay 15 a day. Pair every meat run with fruit or veg.
Buy preferences, not cravings: each country lists five preferred foods and eats them first. Stocked non-preferred food still feeds — but preferred food never sits uneaten.
Wholesale for volume, Dumpster never for planning: Wholesale discounts everything reliably; Charity and Dumpster are free but random and unreliable, with Dumpster spoilage on top.
Grow into countries by unlock day: USA is open day 1 (family of 4, budget 300); Italy unlocks day 9 with the fattest budget (320) for a family of 3.

Keep reading

Foods and saves

Two companion pages: the full food table and the cross-device resume guide.

🍎 Foods table

All 34 emoji foods by category: price, hunger restored, and the protein/carb/vitamin triple.

💾 Resume anywhere

Slots 0-3, slot-0 safety, and the exact phone-to-desktop handoff that keeps your run alive.

Five shops, five deals

Shops compared

Two shops stock everything; three offer a random dozen at a discount or free. Buy the plan from the reliable two, treat the random three as a bonus.

Shop	Assortment	Price note
Grocery	Full catalog, every food	Standard prices, always available.
Wholesale	Full catalog, every food	Reliable volume discount on everything.
Pantry	Random dozen	Discounted, rotates. Check before you plan.
Charity	Random dozen	Free but random and unreliable.
Dumpster	Random dozen	Free, but food can spoil. Never the plan.

Days 1 to 3, USA

Worked example: open a run without starving

The USA opens on day 1 with a family of 4 and a budget of 300. Here is a calm opening built from real foods table values.

Day 1: spend a tenth of the budget
Buy 4 Chicken (12 coins) plus 4 Pasta (8 coins) plus 4 Bananas (3.2 coins), for 23.2 coins total. That covers protein (Chicken, 50 each), carbs (Pasta, 60 each), and vitamins (Banana, 40 each), and preferred-first eating sorts out who eats what.
Day 2: watch the triple, not the hunger bar
Every channel decays 15 a day, so a full belly with vitamins at zero still starves. Find the lowest channel and patch it cheaply: Garlic (0.5) for vitamins, Potato (1) for carbs, Egg (2) for protein. Exact values live in the foods table.
Day 3: bank one spare day, then save
Keep one full spare day of food stocked before you hit Next Day, because an empty fridge means a hungry family. Save to a cloud slot before experimenting with new countries: the resume guide shows the phone to desktop handoff.

Full fridge, hungry family

Troubleshooting

📉 Stocked but starving. Check the triple: a protein-only fridge leaves vitamins at zero while every channel still decays 15 a day. Pair every meat run with fruit or veg.
🗑️ Dumpster haul went bad. Dumpster food can spoil, and Charity and Dumpster stock are random, so neither can carry a plan. Rebuy the missing channel from Grocery or Wholesale.
🍽️ A pile nobody touches. Families eat preferred foods first and fall back to whatever is stocked. An untouched pile is probably nobody's favorite: it still feeds, it just feeds last.
🌍 New country, empty fridge. Each country's fridge is stocked separately, so an unlock-day arrival needs its own shop run before its first Next Day.
💾 Run is gone. Guests get no saves: three free loads a day and nothing persists. Sign in and play in cloud save slots 0 to 3 instead.

New arrivals

Unlock days: meet the new family prepared

The USA opens on day 1 with a family of 4 and a budget of 300; Italy arrives on day 9 with the fattest budget of all. Every unlock in between rewards the same preparation.

🔍 Scout tastes before the unlock. Read the incoming family's five preferred foods first. A shop run aimed at their favorites feeds from day one; a generic pile feeds last.
💰 Arrive with spare budget. Do not spend the old country down to zero the day before an unlock. A cushion buys the new fridge its opening stock without starving the old one.
🧊 Stock before the first Next Day. A newly unlocked fridge starts empty, and advancing the day with an empty fridge means a hungry family on arrival. Shop first, advance second.
💾 Save before the unlock. Unlock days change everything at once: new tastes, new budget, new mouths. Bank the run to a cloud slot first, so a bad opening is a lesson instead of a disaster. See the resume guide.

Pace the purse

The 10 percent opening rule

Opening baskets should be small, balanced, and repeatable. Spend roughly a tenth of the budget on day 1, keep the rest as a buffer for bad shop rotations and unlock surprises.

🧺 Open small

The worked example above feeds a family of 4 for 23.2 coins from a 300 budget: under 8 percent, covering all three channels. Small openings leave room to correct mistakes.

📦 Buffer the random

Random shops rotate and Dumpster finds perish, so reserves beat variety. A buffer of unspent budget buys whatever channel the next rotation fails to offer.

🌍 Fund the unlock

New fridges arrive empty and hungry. Hold back enough budget before each unlock day to stock the newcomer fully on arrival, then resume normal spending.

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DocsFridge Simulator

Docs · simulation

Feed the world. One fridge at a time.

34: emoji foods
5: shops · 5 countries
4: cloud save slots
0: slot 0: cheat-proof

🍗 Buy🧊 Stock⏭️ Next day🍽️ Feed

The loop

Buy, stock, next day, feed

Buy food for the budget
Open a shop and spend that country's budget on emoji foods. Grocery and Wholesale stock everything; Pantry, Charity, and Dumpster offer a random dozen at a discount — Dumpster food can spoil.
Stock each country's fridge
Load food into fridge slots. Family members eat preferred foods first and fall back to whatever is stocked, so match each country's tastes (see the foods table).
Advance the day
Hit Next Day: every family member eats once and every nutrition channel decays. Empty fridge, hungry family — plan one day ahead, always.
Save, then resume anywhere
Your run persists in cloud save slots 0-3 under the game slug fridgesimulator. Sign in on another device, load the same slot, and keep playing — see the resume guide.

Strategy

Play the groceries, not the lottery

The math is public, so play it. Nutrition is a triple — protein, carbs, vitamins — and every channel decays each day. One-sided diets starve even full bellies.

4weird.com - day planner

fridgesimulator

PROTEIN · 🥩 Steak 60 + 🍗 Chicken 50stock reds

CARBS · 🍝 Pasta 60 + 🍞 Bread 50stock ambers

VITAMINS · 🍊 Orange 45 + 🥦 Broccoli 45stock greens

DAILY DECAY · every channel−15 / day

families eat preferred foods first · fallback is whatever is stocked

Cover all three channels: protein-only (🍗🥩🍖🐟) leaves vitamins at zero while they still decay 15 a day. Pair every meat run with fruit or veg.
Buy preferences, not cravings: each country lists five preferred foods and eats them first. Stocked non-preferred food still feeds — but preferred food never sits uneaten.
Wholesale for volume, Dumpster never for planning: Wholesale discounts everything reliably; Charity and Dumpster are free but random and unreliable, with Dumpster spoilage on top.
Grow into countries by unlock day: USA is open day 1 (family of 4, budget 300); Italy unlocks day 9 with the fattest budget (320) for a family of 3.

Keep reading

Foods and saves

Two companion pages: the full food table and the cross-device resume guide.

🍎 Foods table

All 34 emoji foods by category: price, hunger restored, and the protein/carb/vitamin triple.

💾 Resume anywhere

Slots 0-3, slot-0 safety, and the exact phone-to-desktop handoff that keeps your run alive.

Five shops, five deals

Shops compared

Two shops stock everything; three offer a random dozen at a discount or free. Buy the plan from the reliable two, treat the random three as a bonus.

Shop	Assortment	Price note
Grocery	Full catalog, every food	Standard prices, always available.
Wholesale	Full catalog, every food	Reliable volume discount on everything.
Pantry	Random dozen	Discounted, rotates. Check before you plan.
Charity	Random dozen	Free but random and unreliable.
Dumpster	Random dozen	Free, but food can spoil. Never the plan.

Days 1 to 3, USA

Worked example: open a run without starving

The USA opens on day 1 with a family of 4 and a budget of 300. Here is a calm opening built from real foods table values.

Day 1: spend a tenth of the budget
Buy 4 Chicken (12 coins) plus 4 Pasta (8 coins) plus 4 Bananas (3.2 coins), for 23.2 coins total. That covers protein (Chicken, 50 each), carbs (Pasta, 60 each), and vitamins (Banana, 40 each), and preferred-first eating sorts out who eats what.
Day 2: watch the triple, not the hunger bar
Every channel decays 15 a day, so a full belly with vitamins at zero still starves. Find the lowest channel and patch it cheaply: Garlic (0.5) for vitamins, Potato (1) for carbs, Egg (2) for protein. Exact values live in the foods table.
Day 3: bank one spare day, then save
Keep one full spare day of food stocked before you hit Next Day, because an empty fridge means a hungry family. Save to a cloud slot before experimenting with new countries: the resume guide shows the phone to desktop handoff.

Full fridge, hungry family

Troubleshooting

📉 Stocked but starving. Check the triple: a protein-only fridge leaves vitamins at zero while every channel still decays 15 a day. Pair every meat run with fruit or veg.
🗑️ Dumpster haul went bad. Dumpster food can spoil, and Charity and Dumpster stock are random, so neither can carry a plan. Rebuy the missing channel from Grocery or Wholesale.
🍽️ A pile nobody touches. Families eat preferred foods first and fall back to whatever is stocked. An untouched pile is probably nobody's favorite: it still feeds, it just feeds last.
🌍 New country, empty fridge. Each country's fridge is stocked separately, so an unlock-day arrival needs its own shop run before its first Next Day.
💾 Run is gone. Guests get no saves: three free loads a day and nothing persists. Sign in and play in cloud save slots 0 to 3 instead.

New arrivals

Unlock days: meet the new family prepared

The USA opens on day 1 with a family of 4 and a budget of 300; Italy arrives on day 9 with the fattest budget of all. Every unlock in between rewards the same preparation.

🔍 Scout tastes before the unlock. Read the incoming family's five preferred foods first. A shop run aimed at their favorites feeds from day one; a generic pile feeds last.
💰 Arrive with spare budget. Do not spend the old country down to zero the day before an unlock. A cushion buys the new fridge its opening stock without starving the old one.
🧊 Stock before the first Next Day. A newly unlocked fridge starts empty, and advancing the day with an empty fridge means a hungry family on arrival. Shop first, advance second.
💾 Save before the unlock. Unlock days change everything at once: new tastes, new budget, new mouths. Bank the run to a cloud slot first, so a bad opening is a lesson instead of a disaster. See the resume guide.

Pace the purse

The 10 percent opening rule

Opening baskets should be small, balanced, and repeatable. Spend roughly a tenth of the budget on day 1, keep the rest as a buffer for bad shop rotations and unlock surprises.

🧺 Open small

The worked example above feeds a family of 4 for 23.2 coins from a 300 budget: under 8 percent, covering all three channels. Small openings leave room to correct mistakes.

📦 Buffer the random

Random shops rotate and Dumpster finds perish, so reserves beat variety. A buffer of unspent budget buys whatever channel the next rotation fails to offer.

🌍 Fund the unlock

New fridges arrive empty and hungry. Hold back enough budget before each unlock day to stock the newcomer fully on arrival, then resume normal spending.

Feed the world. One fridge at a time.

Buy, stock, next day, feed

Buy food for the budget

Stock each country's fridge

Advance the day

Save, then resume anywhere

Play the groceries, not the lottery

Foods and saves

Shops compared

Worked example: open a run without starving

Day 1: spend a tenth of the budget

Day 2: watch the triple, not the hunger bar

Day 3: bank one spare day, then save

Troubleshooting

Unlock days: meet the new family prepared

The 10 percent opening rule

Feed the world. One fridge at a time.

Buy, stock, next day, feed

Buy food for the budget

Stock each country's fridge

Advance the day

Save, then resume anywhere

Play the groceries, not the lottery

Foods and saves

Shops compared

Worked example: open a run without starving

Day 1: spend a tenth of the budget

Day 2: watch the triple, not the hunger bar

Day 3: bank one spare day, then save

Troubleshooting

Unlock days: meet the new family prepared

The 10 percent opening rule