A Look Inside.. Our Fridge and Pantry

 Today's Let's Look with Shay and Erica has us all sharing a look inside our fridge and pantry.  Now I have covered these in the past but our fridge and pantry are always changing.

Right now both are STOCKED.  It is the first time since my pantry re-do (that I shared last January) where ALL of my bins are overflowing!  But it's a good problem to have and now that we have lived with this pantry for another year I have found that we have not once touched any of the arts or homeschooling supplies I had kept on hand.

With Alec in school full time & Ian heading off to work most days I am left with only one student-- Evan and he is not at all a hands on learner.  He hates projects, science experiments, and anything that makes learning take longer.  So I cleared out another whole shelf of supplies and rearranged things one more time. 

I bought one more 6 pack of bins and re-arranged a few things.  I haven't had time to make new labels yet but that's coming too.  

Our top shelf holds cleaning products, paper goods, and items I don't need on a day to day basis while the 2nd & 3rd shelf hold all the items we use to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  The bottom two shelves hold items used occasionally like baking goods, extra boxes of Ziploc bags, and party supplies. 

All three boys have started eating more and more fruits so we've had to reorganize the refrigerator too to hold more fresh fruits and vegetables.   Something that is not always so easy to do!  

We always have three bins of cut fresh fruit on the top shelf-- one with strawberries mixed with other berries (blueberries, raspberries, &/or blackberries), one with pineapple, and one with grapes.  It's amazing how much more fruit my boys eat when it's all prepped and ready to go.

We almost always have more fruits stacked beside the bins waiting to refill them.  The rest of the top shelf is taken up with milk and juice. 

Our second shelf holds bread, bagels, English muffins, etc. with butter and sometimes more fruit overflow.  

In our meat keeper we keep assorted cheeses, sandwich meat, hard boiled eggs, and overflow from our cream cheese/ hummus area. 

I almost always have a giant bowl of salad made; we eat salad nearly every single night and I have it for lunch most days too.  Behind the salad I often tuck supplies for making more salad (and possibly some excess fruit too).

Our bottom drawer holds cartons of eggs; usually a minimum of two.  Then either meat I am thawing for dinner, perhaps leftovers, or more than likely excess vegetables.

Our vegetable drawer is always overflowing as I try to keep spinach, romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, mushrooms and broccoli on hand at all times.

Our fruit drawer holds pears, apples, clementine's-- things that we refer to as hand fruits.  I also usually have a few lemons or limes on hand for flavoring water. 

Our door holds all the little bottles and containers and we have a lot of them!  We keep butter, hummus, and cream cheese in the top.  An assortment of salad dressings, yogurt, sour cream, condiments, and more are tossed in wherever they can fit!

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