Food Storage

Chris and I were both taught about food storage growing up. Part of being LDS is being prepared. Well we never really got into the whole food storage thing but we did go to case food lot sales and we always had food in our house. I love to cook I am just never in the mood to cook when I get home to work so we didn't use a lot of our food because Chris loves cereal and I love pasta so that is an easy dinner. Back in January we had a few surprises financially and so the grocery budget got slashed to nothing and it went on into February. Needless to say Chris and I realized how important it is to have food storage and most importantly have food you know how to use. My friend Chalet got me onto a program called grocery smarts and obsessive shopper ( look on my sidebar) and now even Chris loves to go shopping with me. I am kind of competitive so we shop at 5:30 am on Wednesday mornings. We don't go every week in fact I don't think we've gone a month but it is so nice to not need to go grocery shopping. We have also been ordering some stuff from the cannery every month too. So slowly but surely we have been building and we are doing OK. The food drive came around and I unloaded some of the shelves on them. I feel like what we are given we are suppose to share, so I share.

Here is our pantry in the kitchen, of course
Our cereal shelf, we actually need about 3 of these by the way Chris eats cereal. We need about 100 boxes... that's about 3 boxes a week, by himself. I am not kidding. I have not paid over $1.25 per box!

The other shelf downstairs. I will have it full in no time. The rubber maid containers are full of sugar and pasta. So here is our new hobby.

Time Off

I took a week off of work due to some health issues...everything is OK. So I decided to make the most of my time. It only ended up being two days of nothing to do because we went to a funeral in Vernal. Chris' grandpa passed away. That was a long drive so we broke it up and spent the night. I have been having the urge sew lately and since what I would sew for myself would cost upward of $150 I decided to make some cute things for my neices. We are going to St. George for spring break and we will get to see them open them. The crayon roll idea I got from here.
I also made this adorable super easy purse for them to keep their treasures inside. Pattern here. I enlarged mine to 175% because I made them for little girls. Super easy though and there is even a video you can watch that teaches you how to do it.







My sister in-law is due to have a baby any time now and I wanted to make something for her plus I was in a sewing mood and these burp cloths are nearly instant gratification. Here are the instructions. Finding cute boy fabric is ridiculous unless you like Winnie the Poo or little bottle and diaper print, not me. So once the fabrics were picked it was easy.