A Tisket, A Tasket

How I love my baskets...


The two other places in my kitchen that I tend to get comments on are my refrigerator and my plastic container storage.


When the children were little I had a lot of leftovers that would work over several meals.  To keep organize which container, say of rice, was oldest, I started dating the containers with some masking tape and a Sharpie marker.  Now we just eat the previous night's dinner leftover for lunch the next day, so I don't bother to label those containers, but since I have a continual supply of my starches going, the labeling and dating are quite helpful.

Recently I bought some sturdy plastic baskets for the freezer to make my meat storage more manageable.  Huge help!

One thing I don't want to be doing is spending time trying to match lids to containers when I am putting up leftovers.  I keep containers group by size and the lids in baskets.  It is so easy to find sturdy, inexpensive baskets these days, and they make such a difference.  

And thus concludes the kitchen tour.