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Showing posts with label Kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kitchen. Show all posts

+ ORGANIZING: HEALTHY MEAL PLANNING - PART 2

Really excited to talk to you all today about healthy meal planning. If you missed the first post, I'm sharing how to organize a small space in your kitchen (could be either the inside of a cabinet or the fridge) and turning it into a hub for healthy meal planning. Again, here is the before (I have placed any invites we received in a folder and added all details directly to our calendars + any photographs {especially of the cute babies} and cards to another folder):


And, here is the after thanks to the new Home Collection by Post-it Brand and Scotch Brand. I love that their new collection is stylish yet highly functional:




Ahhh, so nice and organized now!  Here is what I used: 

1. Healthy food photographs: You could find a few photographs of your favorite healthy meals and secure them on your fridge using Scotch Restickable Cut Tape. This allows you to always see healthy meals/snacks when you get to your fridge helping you make better decisions when you finally open the door. The tape holds well and can be easily removed off your photograph, and fridge.


2. Framed month: To add a touch of pretty to the meal planning space, you could cut out an old calendar and frame it up using a Small Scotch Display Frame. I love the Scotch Restickable Tape so much much that I used it to add a personalized touch to the Display Frame, too. You could also use the frames to add a couple of personal photographs.


3. Weekly planner and need list (below the frame of August): 


Here is where the healthy planning comes into play (with a few nights out, etc.). The Post-it Planner & Perforated List Pad is a large Post-It product that allows you to meal plan + have a "need" list easily transferred from the perforated pad to your fridge- an organizers dream.


A new goal could be to try at least a few times a month (let's not get over zealous here) to sit down on a Sunday morning/afternoon to flip through your mags, recipe books, and recipe binder to find recipes that you want to make that week. Then you can plan out the week's recipes before hitting the grocery store (no more buying random items that don't always go with meals- maybe I'm the only one that does that?). Again, after you plan out the week- you can post this to the fridge so you know what you're making and others in your house can look at see what you're having.  


4. Recipe & Coupon folders: After you've figured out what you want to make, you can take the recipes for that week and place them in your Large Post-it View and Go Pocket on the fridge (of course if it's a book you could use a Post-it Note to easily get to the recipe). I added a round label with the word "Recipe" to organize on top of something that is already organized :). Then for the coupons I used a Small Post-it View and Go Pocket to hold any loose coupons that need to go into the car ( I keep all my coupons in a plastic bag in my glove box).

Now that you've planned out your meals- you can use this nifty Post-it Shopping Organizer to ensure you pick up all items for your recipes. Coupons can also go inside on the left side.

here it is all folded up and ready to hit the aisles:

Last but not least...I don't know about you, but I'm always forgetting to bring that one item that needed to go out the door with me. This week it has been our glass milk bottles to return to the store for our deposits. I've used these Post-it Reminder Tags to help me remember the bottles this time!


Hope that this post has inspired you to plan out some healthy meals and start cooking!  

+ ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, AND THEN ORGANIZE SOME MORE.

I am organizing like it's my 2nd job these days.   No joke, I have gone to the Container Store twice this week- which is actually fun to me- even if I can barely keep my eyes open.  And, although I love this organizing stuff, I will admit, it's much harder to organize several rooms within a week.  You kinda start to lose it after staying up late unpacking the kitchen- and then to turn around and realize there are 3 more large boxes of kitchen trinkets you didn't realize you missed.  Needless to say, my jar collection got the boot this week.  Please tell me I'm not the only one that has saved salsa jars for "future organizing projects".  By the way, I'm not the only one with collections around here.  For every jar I have, I think Chris has a hot sauce bottle (and we don't have all his sauces yet- we still have some more of his favorites to purchase):



At any rate, we are in love with our place and our new neighborhood!  We might be a little tired (and Chris on top of this move has been traveling to the East Coast this week!) but we are at least getting closer to having the boxes unpacked.  

image from our ran last night in our neighborhood
I have been hitting up some magazines for a little inspiration.  Have you seen this one?  Style at Home put out a special organized issue.  It was a fun surprise to see the sweet Jen Ramos from Made by Girl too. 



Love how she keeps her space organized, but still so stylish and livable:

image: MadeByGirl

image: MadeByGirl

image: MadeByGirl

I have been doing little DIY projects here and there in my delirium... Under the kitchen sink needed a little boost: 



So I used white paper to add a few black leopardy looking spots to spruce it up a bit:


I'm still working on organizing under this sink, but I'll be sure to shoot some pics when it's done.

Anyway, wish us luck- we have to clear out our second room tonight (the room where we have stuffed every single item that we haven't wanted to deal with for a week) in order for a mattress to be delivered at 8:00 a.m. !

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend! 

+ TINY KITCHEN

sunset from the new place last night

Our boxes have been moved, we've finished the last bottle of champagne from our wedding (at our old house)...and we're ready to start getting settled. 

The organization that needs to happen in our new kitchen is almost beyond me.  We are going from a very large (city living large) kitchen, to a kitchen that is now 1/4 the size.  And, we have accumulated more kitchen appliances over the years than I could have ever imagined.  I will need to get very creative on how I put our things away.  I've been looking at pinterest for some ideas and came across this image:

Tiny kitchen organization

It reminds me that you really don't need much to get by.  A tea pot, a few cups and plates and some knives seem appropriate.  This will be my inspiration on purging. 

I think that keeping things monochromatic seems to be the trick, though: 

Tiny tiny kitchen!
In my search for inspiration, I also came across this little nook.  Makes me happy: 

Tiny Kitchen Nook 

All right, enough stalling- wish me luck on tackling this kitchen.

slowing down + greens


I've been busy lately, eating unhealthy and not finding time to exercise.  It's time to find a way to slow down and take care of what's important.  My health. 

Anyone else feeling that way?   


This week I'm going to try very hard to start my days off with a smoothie and get a good amount of greens in throughout the day.  I forced myself to find 30 minutes to go to the grocery store today & stock up on the green stuff.  Looking inside my fridge right now makes me happy.

Over the weekend I also allowed myself to just hang out in bed and watch tv for a little while...even though my monstrous to-do list was waiting for me to get up.  It was pure bliss.

Bottom line- I'm going to try and make more time for health this week.  Starting with smoothies in the mornings.

I will try to post recipes for those who are interested.  Let me know if you are!

make some time for yourself this week :)

welcome 2011!

Wow!  This has already been a bit of an exhausting {but exciting} year for me!  We've moved cross country, hunted for a place to call home, and now I'm searching for a new job here in San Francisco. BUT, I'm excited that we finally locked a place down!  It's not a typical San Francisco Victorian {lived in one before-which I actually love} but instead a tiny "cottage" like place with a bit of a front yard and back yard {can't wait to plant a few herbs and roses} and in the neighborhood we wanted.  Due to space, I will have to be even more creative with storing and organizing what we already own.  I will most definitely post the process!  For now, a few images that I've pulled from the files...
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I hope everyone had a wonderful start to their new year!