One of the biggest challenges that we have, storing all the food that we do, is keeping track of it all. It can get to be a little bit like a squirrel burying nuts in the yard - a little bit here, a little over there- until we find ourselves in the kitchen wondering whether or not we actually do have any corn for the dinner and, if so, where might it be?
We have come up with a solution to this problem and it is remarkably easy. It requires paper (graph paper is nice), some tape and a pencil (or pen)
One of these posted at each of the freezers and at the cupboards that hold the canned food, and we can quite easily keep track to what goes in and what comes out. Something new goes into the freezer - another square is added. Something gets taken out to be used and a square gets crossed off. Keeping a pen or pencil attached to the list ensures that no one can use the excuse of "there wasn't anything to mark it off with."
We try to make sure that all of last year's stuff gets used up first ,so that is typically somewhere on the top of the freezer to avoid having to unpack the entire thing.....but I am still trying to find that one quart of 2010 corn that is supposedly in there somewhere.
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