Today I started tackling the pantry cupboard. I went to IKEA and bought some lovely (and affordable) glass jars to replace the plastic containers I'm currently storing dry ingredients in.
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| The first pile I need to sort. |
I won't be throwing away the old plastic containers though, as that won't help our carbon footprint either! I'll find another purpose for these away from food. And I will choose to use glass instead of plastic going forward.
While Mr 8 Months sat in his highchair next to me chewing a rusk, surprisingly I managed to achieve a bit. I wrangled this pile of chaos out of the pantry to sort through, washed the new jars ready to be filled and started reorganising the section of the pantry this all came from.
I quickly realised I don't have enough jars and that I will need more of certain sizes to transfer everything across. But hey, this is a work in progress, and the jars always look like a different size in the store than what they do when we get them home.
Most of you know what it's like when you attempt to tackle a job like this when you have kids. You have the idea, but it's days before you get the chance to do anything about it.
Then the opportunity popped up when my oldest was at daycare and my baby was happily occupied and NOT IN MY ARMS! That's the moment I got motivated and started. I got into the swing of it, and had a massive pile out on the table which was partly sorted. Then Mr 8 Months started to get bored, threw his rusk down on the floor started 'hinting' he wanted Mummy cuddles.
So the pile was left on the kitchen table until the kids were in bed and dinner had been made. By then, I was over it so packed it all back into the pantry in whatever stage it was in, and retreated to the lounge room for the evening. I WILL get back to it again soon though, maybe on the weekend...
