Monthly Organizing Series | February Week 2: Pantry

               Last week we talked about how to organize and stationed our kitchen. This second week of my monthly organizing series, I’m sharing with you how I organize the food items in my pantry. I split up the kitchen and pantry because I think the pantry is a separate task to do (and also its in a separate room in my home). You will see in the pictures below that we don't have much going on (just enough to entertain my family of three) or should I say we only store food in our pantry that we ONLY eat and consume within a month or so. Ok, enough with the blabbering and let's get organized!

WEEK TWO TASK/TO-DO'S

✓ Empty out the whole pantry and clean it inside.
✓ Discard anything that is no longer fit to eat.
✓ Sort and categorize the rest.
✓ Determine the types of containers you need.
✓ Put everything back.
✓ Label each bin or hang a tag on the basket.

OUR PANTRY

Monthly Organizing Series| February Week 1: KITCHEN

               

               

               Today is the first day of my monthly organizing series on clearing out clutter and organizing the entire home. This month we will start in the kitchen, the heart of our home. First, we need to plan our kitchen so that we know how we can strategically place things and to make our kitchen more functional. I admit, when my family moved in to our new home three years ago I absolutely had no strategy for organization. My cooking utensils were in a cupboard neatly placed, but it was on the opposite side of the kitchen away from stove! They appeared to have just put in a cupboard with no thoughts (kaloka!).

Pop that Soda Habit

  The amount of sugar in softdrinks is not advisable for our child's health. As a substitute, we can get them into habit of drinking fresh fruit or vegetable juice, smoothies, or shakes. Preparing the beverages our self ensures that our kids consume only the right kind of ingredients and natural sugars. Mix things up by combining different fruits such as mango, avocado, pineapple, banana, apple, lychee, berries, etc. We can even secretly slip in vegetables such as carrots, kangkong, camote tops, malungay leaves, collards, spinach, kale, etc. to their smoothie (shake or juice).

Here is one of my favorite smoothie recipe to make for my son.

What's for Sunday Breakfast?

Nothing says "weekend" like easy homemade pancakes for breakfast. My easy pancake with chocolate chip recipe will help you easily whip up this weekend favorite in less than 30 minutes! When you see how easy it is to make delicious, light, and fluffy homemade pancakes from scratch, you'll wonder why you never tried this before!