(With apologies for the blogging hiatus while everyone was sick and life got crazy . . . )
Today I tackled a little project that has been driving me just slightly batty for years: open bags in my cupboards. You know what I mean: that twist-tied bag of rice, half-used bags of stuffing mix from last Thanksgiving, all of those things that get piled up on the shelf and come sliding off at my head when I want to find something underneath or behind it all.
Also frustrating me in my kitchen: the overwhelming number of recycled jars stacked in the cupboard above the microwave. Applesauce, baby food, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter [yeah, those are plastic, but I save them anyway], jelly, endless jars of salsa . . . I just can't bear to throw them away! The salsa jars are perfect for freezing 1.5-cup portions of chicken broth, but I'm nearly out of broth right now and the cupboard is positively overflowing. Bags of rice sliding at my head aren't so scary, but a dozen glass jars is a different story.
Oh, but when the two annoying cupboards combine! What a happy marriage! I didn't take a picture because really, it's not that exciting [I told you we've been sick a lot lately], but it brings me such happiness to open up my main food pantry and see a row of jars instead of a pile of bags (not to mention climbing up to reach the above-microwave cupboard and not ducking in fear of falling glass).
It's the little things. :)
Today I tackled a little project that has been driving me just slightly batty for years: open bags in my cupboards. You know what I mean: that twist-tied bag of rice, half-used bags of stuffing mix from last Thanksgiving, all of those things that get piled up on the shelf and come sliding off at my head when I want to find something underneath or behind it all.
Also frustrating me in my kitchen: the overwhelming number of recycled jars stacked in the cupboard above the microwave. Applesauce, baby food, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter [yeah, those are plastic, but I save them anyway], jelly, endless jars of salsa . . . I just can't bear to throw them away! The salsa jars are perfect for freezing 1.5-cup portions of chicken broth, but I'm nearly out of broth right now and the cupboard is positively overflowing. Bags of rice sliding at my head aren't so scary, but a dozen glass jars is a different story.
Oh, but when the two annoying cupboards combine! What a happy marriage! I didn't take a picture because really, it's not that exciting [I told you we've been sick a lot lately], but it brings me such happiness to open up my main food pantry and see a row of jars instead of a pile of bags (not to mention climbing up to reach the above-microwave cupboard and not ducking in fear of falling glass).
It's the little things. :)
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