{"id":8919,"date":"2011-05-17T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymouse.com\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2011-05-20T23:42:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T04:42:31","slug":"eat-well-spend-less-limiting-food-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/17\/eat-well-spend-less-limiting-food-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Well, Spend Less: Limiting Food Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Eat Well, Spend Less series<\/a> continues! This month we’re looking at food storage options, and I am specifically breaking down what we do as a family with a small kitchen area and virtually no extra storage space. While we do keep a well-stocked pantry and we love buying in bulk, we need to be conscious of our lack of space, too.<\/em>
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\nThere are six people in our family, which means quite a few hungry mouths on a daily basis. While I’ve talked before about how we love purchasing food in bulk rather than in small, generally more expensive portions, this doesn’t mean we have the ideal, organized pantry space with glass jars stacked on meticulously organized shelves. In fact, it doesn’t mean we have a pantry at all.
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Yes, I know I’ve talked about stocking my pantry on multiple occasions. However, in reality, our pantry consists of the everyday cupboards in the kitchen, which already lack in size, and the counter below them that holds my dry containers. I also have a few limited shelving areas in the garage that provide food storage overflow. By limited, I mean one decent cupboard area where I store extra grains.
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\nHere’s the space we have in our kitchen. Hold your breath.
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\nAnd that’s it. In my opinion, not too shabby, but nothing spectacular either. It is definitely lacking in the storage department, especially when you consider the lack of any pantry or linen closet and that we spend the majority of our time in the kitchen cooking three or so times a day. All those appliances? In the garage. My poor husband. Luckily, he loves to cook, too, or we’d probably be fighting over the one-car garage space. <\/p>\n

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Making it Work<\/h2>\n

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\nHere are a few of the things we’ve adjusted and adapted about our pantry-stocking style to make the limited space work for us. <\/p>\n