Spring is finally here, although in Seattle its pretty hard to tell, it snowed in April last year. Non the less according to the calendar it is. My first project is the room I use most during the day, the kitchen. I love the space I have but I can most definitely organize it a bit, well a lot.I'm going to try my best to show before and after photos. I decided that I'd start off with my refrigerator. In the last couple of months I've done a great job cleaning out items that hasn't been touched for over a week, old or moldy anything, leftovers I know I'm not going to eat, etc. The thing I noticed in doing this was I really need to use up everything I buy for the week because most of my waste was vegetables and some fruits. I do my best to cook seven days a week but lets be honest, I have two toddlers (who are now anti-vegetable) and very pro-fruits if that's all I feed them, they wouldn't argue), a board member at school, and just overall procrastinator, so seven days turns to five days. But I know your not judging :). Have you ever gone to your kitchen and know exactly what to cook but not in the mood, especially if it means you need to clean, chop, peel, and cut all your ingredients so you just say forget and go to those canned meals or leftovers if they haven't already got mold on them. So to eliminate laziness, waste not just of the food but money, I've started cleaning and cutting my fruits and vegetables and storing them in containers as soon as I get home from shopping for it.
This saved my butt Thursday when I forgot to cook lunch for my husband. But I only had about one hour to do it before he had to go. I told him I'd make split pea soup, which my recipe has celery, carrots, spinach, onion, and garlic. Now that's a good ten minutes of cleaning and chopping. I was able to put everything in the pot within five minutes and it cooked in about 50 minutes.Now, I'm not going to lie it will take some time but squeezed this in in about 30 minutes but at least its all done. My favorite thing about this is I see everything and therefore I use everything, I don't have waste because I tend to use it faster and eat more. Try it and let me know how it goes for you. Even if you still have waste by adopting this system and just get the feeling of being organized than its still so worth it.
