Wednesday, Organized pantry

  
I had such a time yesterday and I really over worked my self.  Hubs and I had purchased on a close out sale two new storage shelves for our pantry. Remember 3 years ago before Mom moved in we were trying to downsize our pantry so we could go on a Mission when Hubs retired.  Those plans changed with mom and we have never really put the pantry back.  It was sort of all over.  We had a book shelf that Hubs made years ago for the girls and D#3 wants it.  The shelves were too narrow for storage but we used it as we are prone to do when we don't want to spend money on something.  So before Hubs left I told him I was going to reorganize and move out the book shelf. We needed real shelves.

So I spent a better part of two hours trying to put together an awful shelf kit and I finally had it in pieces and I had to return the dang thing.  I actually returned both.  I told the manager I wanted my money back, I wanted to be paid for the two hours of my time, I wanted the can of W-D 40 replaced I had used and someone to clean up the cat vomit from spraying too much WD40.  I then exchanged the two shelves for this one shelf.  I owed .3 cents which the manager paid out of his pocket. Then I came home and put this sucker together before I could even start organized the mess. I worked way too hard and about killed myself.

     But here it is, at least part of it.  So nice, you can't really see but the larger home canned fruit and tomatoes are on the bottom.




I used a shelf we already had and there is a little room between shelves for larger items, like gallons of Honey, vinegar etc.

I am basically a scratch cook, but I will buy cake mixes when they are .69 as then it is cheaper to use a mix.  The canned pie filling is purchased for .99 a can and is used in so many desserts.  Since I am constantly baking for others in need and time is a factor for me, I will use convenience things when I can get them on a good price.


Now I just have to clean and organize the freezers, and the outside storage in the garage.  I hope to get that done today.

 Here is the porch swept off.

The table and chairs are cleaned and wiped off.  Pillows stored for winter.  There is still so much to do in the back yard I can hardly look at it.  Yes it is beautiful but oh my...













     I really must get into my shop today, and I also need to go to Joanns.  I am going to make a big pot of potato soup  inspired by Mrs. Chrissy T,at Keeping Home.

     I would really like to start a menu challenge.  The problem is I am not really good at sticking to a menu.  Like Ann in the Kitchen it feels to constrained.  What if I don't want pot roast on Tuesday?  Okay who cooks pot roast on Tuesday anyway?  But I would like to have at least one pasta meal a week, one soup meal, and one bean or chowder like soup meal.  Since I always have some kind of a nice meal on Sunday, that leaves three more meals for the week.  I always use up leftovers for lunches and we have to have at least one evening of "Must go" as in everything in the fridge must go.  That only leaves 2 nights of the week for other meals. I am a firm believer in cooking large and eating something for a couple days.  My time is precious.

     So I will think on this for a while.  I love on Sluggy prints out her menu and then prints what really happened.   Well I am off to create chaos somewhere...

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim