Organization

Menu Plan

by Julie Meyers Pron November 7, 2011

The good news is that the kitchen is back to usable! I came home from my cooking event on Saturday and I cooked. On the stove. The even better news is that the kitchen is nearly finished and, in about a week, I’ll be able to share it with you. Yes. Time for a collective [...]

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Kitchen Renovation: Kitchen Organization

by Julie Meyers Pron October 5, 2011

As I shared last week, we are finally about to undergo our kitchen makeover. This week we’re expecting (hoping…) to rip out the floor and replace it. In the meantime, I heard about IKEA’s The Share Space and was inspired to work on my kitchen storage challenges, come up with some solutions and share them [...]

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Last minute meals and a menu plan

by Julie Meyers Pron September 26, 2011

In Candice’s last Healthy Family from Scratch post, she asked Do those of you who menu plan have an alternative easy option at the ready? Do you have things that are healthy in your house that can be prepared very quickly in case the menu can’t work that night? If you do can you tell [...]

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Scheduling and identifying patterns in your meal planning

by Julie Meyers Pron September 19, 2011

On Thursday, Candice posted her 2nd installment in her Healthy Family from Scratch series on Just Precious. Her family’s first two weeks trying to get healthy with a menu plan didn’t go exactly as she hoped. She found that it’s a lot harder to stick to the plan. I commented that the first step is [...]

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Make your own cookbook

by Julie Meyers Pron August 25, 2011

For a long, long, long time, I saved magazine after magazine, just for the recipes. It was like a teen boy hiding his issues of Playboy under the bed, except I was hoarding Real Simple and Rachael Ray in my cabinet. It got ugly. And, I realized, it wasn’t easy for me to go back [...]

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Clear Containers: Organize your cabinets

by Julie Meyers Pron March 30, 2011

Prior to hiring an organizer I had mix-matched containers and sloppy shelves. Now? I have clear containers. Everything has its places. Everything is labeled and everything is easy to grab. Want this kind of clarity? Measure your spaces. Get rid of old things, and store items you don’t use regularly (within 3 weeks) in a [...]