organization

Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Making Room for Bulk Storage

March 8, 2010

When you think of storing bulk food, what comes to mind? Do you wonder where you will ever keep it? Do you dismiss the idea because your kitchen storage is already on the small side? Do you envision hefty, 25 lbs bags of grains sitting in your dining room, with no where else to go?
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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Knowing and Using What’s in Your Freezer

February 25, 2010

Today's post is written by my friend Nola, who happens to currently have a more organized freezer than I do! I asked for tips for freezer organization a while back and Nola had sent me enough good stuff to make an entire post of it. I've added a few little notes of my own as [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Planning to Make Food Preparation Happen

February 19, 2010

$tex-mex-dinner$

**Have you been enjoying this series on Organization in the Real Food Kitchen? Catch up on any posts that you may have missed in my Getting Organized category.**
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In the days before I began cooking real, traditional, whole foods, it wasn't such a big deal if I forgot to think about dinner ahead of [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Ferments Everywhere

February 16, 2010

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"Hi, my name is Stephanie and I have a problem. I'm addicted to fermenting, culturing and soaking foods and they're taking over my kitchen! Help!"
Having a lot of cultured, soaked, sprouted and lacto-fermented foods around is a wonderful problem to have since these are incredibly nutritious and beneficial to consume. Sometimes, though, it can get [...]

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Organization in the Garden: Evaluating What You Have and What You Need

January 26, 2010

January tends to find me just a little bit giddy. Throughout the fall and early winter, I am just pooped from gardening and preserving season. I don't really want to see another canning jar, or hardly even another fresh tomato, and going out to get the garden prepped for over the winter is the last [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: My Recipe Binder

January 22, 2010

We've talked about some ways to streamline our meal planning, as well as how to use lists of your favorite recipes for ease of planning and quick reference. Here is the last step of the recent meal planning/recipe overhaul that my own kitchen has been receiving lately:

My beloved recipe binder!
It doesn't get much simpler and [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Favorite Recipes Lists

January 12, 2010

My poor hubby. He really dislikes piles, and yet he married a gal who's just a little bit "out of sight, out of mind". Thus, I'm a piler.
All through the Christmas holidays, there was one particular pile that continued to be moved around from table to table, dresser to desk, and back to the table [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Menu Planning

January 11, 2010

Of all of the things that I spend time planning, the one that I feel probably has the biggest payoff in saving me time, frustration and even money would have to be menu planning!
I've been menu planning faithfully for about 3-4 years now. Every once in a while I briefly slip up and go a [...]

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Time to Get Organized!

January 7, 2010

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I seem to have a yearly break down in my systems of organization.
I can get systems set up, rooms de-cluttered, schedules made and being used, etc. for about 6-9 months and at that point, they start to disintegrate. I fight desperately to hang on to them, but generally it is of no use [...]

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Almost-Christmas Ramblings

December 22, 2009

Just a few thoughts as I prepare to take a little time for celebration, relaxation and meditation this next week:

1) The picture you see above is Johanna's birth announcement. It may make some of you feel oddly comforted to know that I picked them up last week. Yes, she's 4 months old. I figured it [...]

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