<p style="text-align: left;">Today I cleaned out the cabinets and re-organized all the food into categories</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This was great. I was able to re-organize every cabinet making things much more logical.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Corner Cabinet:</strong></span></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;">My corner cabinet is now all baking supplies.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The bottom shelf has the basic, more used items such as flour, sugar, olive oil, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The next shelf up has my bread flour, cornstarch, cocoa powder and I used a lazy Susan for items like molasses, honey, corn syrup, vanilla extract, etc. The</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">third shelf has extras: extra flour, sugar, yeast, marshmallows, chocolate chips and other candy goodies.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The fourth and final shelf has a giant bowl that doesn't fit anywhere else, it also has all of my cake/cookie decorating supplies: pastry bags, dyes, candy molds etc. It is so much less cluttered- I love it!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">**In the process I was so blessed to find my pastry bags and decorating tip sets that I thought we lost in the move! It's been a good day!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Pantry:</strong></span></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;">My pantry is now divided up in to sections as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I have 2 shelves for canned goods.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">One shelf is for divided up so that all the lunch items are together and canned fruits/juices etc are together. We also have one basket labeled "kids snacks" and one labeled "our snacks" that holds granola bars, raisin boxes and other goodies.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">One shelf has all breakfast stuff (cereals, oatmeal, cream of wheat, even the waffle maker is tucked behind the boxes of cereal!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Cabinets near the stove:</strong></span></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;">I used the cabinets to the <strong>right of the stove</strong> and put Pastas, rices, stuffing etc. in there so that all the starches for dinner were in one place.</p>

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<p style="text-align: left;">To the <strong>left of the stove</strong> I have vinegars, oils, measuring spoons and cups on the first shelf. Cake, cookie and bread mixes are on the second shelf. My cookbooks on the third shelf.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">While I was sorting through boxes of pasta I found 3-4 opened boxes that had broken pieces or small amounts left in them. I decided to pour all of these "leftovers" into a pot and for dinner tonight we'll have a mixed up pasta casserole! (My hubby is going to think I've lost my mind!)  Here's a photo of the pot so far...</p>

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<p style="text-align: left;">After all was said and done, I threw out a bunch of super old food items and cleared out enough that I even have an <strong>EMPTY SHELF!!! </strong>Amazing! I admit that I do have a nice sized stockpile of canned goods, cereals, rice etc. in our basement which helps with clutter. I also still have to go through all my cook books (plus one very large pile that is not show in the photos) and decide what I need to keep and what can GO! I feel great! I think reorganizing the food will help meal times to be less stressful too!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Later I'll share my "cheat sheets that I keep on the inside of cabinets to help me plan meals and other useful kitchen resources! <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Coming soon!</strong></span></p>