The tower of dried goods, plus some snacks because we’re currently overflowing with snacks, and also where we store beer and LaCroix.
My kitchen doors, in fact, regularly cause me distress over its total lack of tidiness. Alas, when I’m living with a person who does not have any distress whatsoever over tidiness, this is not my biggest priority.
mmmm Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Yes please. I remember being in a Trader Joes over there in 2014 and seeing the beer prices and being very very sad that I lived in Australia.
Yeah - #australianthings - taking a photo of cheap beer overseas. We also love a $1 Bin Tang when in Bali.
I love my cupboard with the lazy susan! It’s pretty big and is for mostly baking stuff and it’s pretty fun when the cats climb in it for a spin.
My spices are in a deep drawer and there is no good system, but I try to write the names on the top for at least the most used stuff.
I have narrow shelves over the stairs for jars of rice, etc.
I have deep storage downstairs, plus a small freezer. I’ll never show anybody pictures of my refrigerator, btw.
The new house has a pantry cupboard in the kitchen, a larger pantry/storage cupboard in the haul, and a small room in the basement that will be deep storage. Also a much larger freezer. I think the refrigerator will be even worse because there are more of us. We might need a garage fridge.
Highlights include SO many CSA cabbages, precarious towers of leftovers/batch cooks, dog food which is discarded baby meals we then feed to the dog, and a head of escarole approximately the size of the baby. Part of the reason the fridge is so wrecked is that we had a SECOND even LARGER head of escarole, along with a ton of other stuff, that I gifted to neighbors. My brother abandoned his CSA share to us, and it is just way too much food. But I refuse to let it go to waste haha.
This fridge is a bit of a nightmare because both the bottom and top freeze things. We have a very limited “Goldilocks” zone. The fridge(edit) is older than the house though, so I’m not too shocked by this
Freezer highlights include breast milk, bags of prepped meals for the baby, and frozen “keys” for teething. Think life revolves around the baby much? Lol.
We also have a chest freezer in the garage, which maybe I’ll post at some point.
Heh. As much as I love organizing and tweaking everything else in the house, the fridge is just never gonna happen. It’s too small, we use it too frequently, and htbf’s approach is too different from mine.
Cupboards are easy and relatively static. I can put the stuff away once, and as things leave, I can restock every couple weeks. I have almost complete control over what goes back in.
Yeahhh we kinda have it slated for “we should do this on Black Friday probably”. The bright side is we already know a fridge we love- we bought it for our last house, and the house is for sale again now so I know it still looks good and works lol. So at least we won’t have the “pick the fridge” barrier. Assuming it fits, need to check that. But the amount of spending on this house has me reeling. We had to replace the roof and flooring and some window coverings right away to the tune of $25k, so my cash buffer still isnt quite where I love it. But it’s probably stupid to keep a super inefficient (I assume) and frustrating fridge because I like a large cash buffer Especially since the amount of damaged food from it is non zero for sure.
The fridge. It’s rarely very full, just a couple meals, and condiments. Most my food is either in storage mode. The veggie drawers are full, tho! I’m a real adult (sometimes).
The freezer. Emptier than usual, due to moving soon. Note the showcasing of the responsibly portioned vegan ground crumbles! The baggies are frozen lemon juice cubes, frozen chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, and brown sugar.
Deep storage. One 5 gallon bucket of rice, a 2 gallon bucket of black beans, a 2 gallon bucket of oats (behind the big bucket). Could use another 2 gallon’er for the chickpeas. A flat of coconut milk, a flat of diced tomatoes, and bulk oil.
The brand is actually Lao Gan Ma, and it comes in a couple varities - black bean, spicy chili crisp, etc. American’s call it Angry Lady Sauce because that lady looks like she has Opinions.
Especially since the amount of damaged food from it is non zero for sure.
