Getting Organized... Finally!

Awhile ago, I did a post about my new goal to shop the sales and stock up when things are on sale. I have this lovely food storage room to keep all my finds. However, my food room had no shelves. A few years ago, I bought some really cheap shelves that I was using, but they really weren't cutting it. Awhile ago, I asked my very handy brother Mark to build me some real shelves and so he did this week. Yea!!! Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of what a disgrace it was before D got to work clearing it out (really, I'm happy that he was doing such a great job. It is great to have such a great help around). I did take some pictures of all the food and stuff that was being stored in there.

Now, I have to forewarn you that I had to put most of the stuff in the bathroom because I needed a door I could lock so the little girls didn't get into everything. But, please don't get too grossed out because scrubbed down first and used bleach to disinfect everything before putting a single piece of food in there and then I locked the door so no one could get in there to contaminate it. For those of you who think this is going a little overboard... this is the bathroom that the kids use. There is no such thing as going overboard.

So here we go... there was all this:

...and this...

...and this...

...and this...

...and this.

It really was a mess. You could barely walk inside, which meant I would often just buy new ingredients when I knew I was going to make something, rather than go down there and try and find it in the tornado wreckage.

And now... here is what it looks like:

There is even room to spare!! I get to go shopping again!

It just makes me so happy. I just keeping going down there to look at it all. Thanks, Mark!!

My little helpers relaxing after all their hard work.

KL carrying a big heavy can of spaghetti sauce.

Also, the day we cleared out the food room, I decided that maybe it was time to clean out the deep freeze. This was party because Dave wanted to have roast, and I knew we had some somewhere in there, but really... it had just gotten so bad, all I could see was the top layer. Here is before...

And here it is all nice and organized.

The best part was just going through it and seeing what was in there! I'll tell you!!! We won't be buying any chicken for a while! It kept going on sale for $1.67/lb and I just couldn't pass on that deal. I really didn't realized just how much we had amassed!! Needless today, we will be having chicken for dinner tonight!

Finally, here is just a little video of my little KL helping. She kept bringing all the food back into the food room and it was so cute. While she isn't doing it in this video, she kept grunting under the intense pressure of the big loads she was bringing in. What a fun little girl!