Shirley Yvonne Bill November 27, 1954 – January 9, 2024
Saturday my oldest daughter called to let me know that my sister Shirley wasn’t feeling well well. She’d had the flu or flu like symptoms for about 3 weeks. She’d been to her doctor who ordered bloodwork. Only problem was that she had been too weak to drive. My daughter was driving down to take Shirley for the bloodwork Monday.
Shirley was tested 3 times for COVID with negative results. She did test positive for the flu about 10 days ago. The problem was that she wasn’t getting better.
This morning a friend from her work tried to call her but got no answer. So they went to her house to check on her with no response. A call to the police department was made and they came out. When they entered the house, they found Shirley had passed in her sleep.
Now we wait for the results of an autopsy to determine cause of death.
Please folks!
If you have a senior friend or relative who has been feeling sick with flu-like symptoms, check on them before it’s too late.
With the days getting shorter, we’re ready to spend the long evenings curled up with a book or movie — or both. Check out these books with brand-new TV or film adaptations, all of which are perfect for whiling away your nights. With everything from Netflix rom-coms like Katherine Center’s Happiness for Beginners to a Julia Roberts movie based on Rumaan Alam’s title Leave the World Behind to the long-awaited adaptation of All the Light We Cannot Seeto a new Hunger Gamesmovie, there’s something for everyone here.
A pantry is a room or cupboard where beverages, food, (sometimes) dishes, household cleaning products, linens, or provisions are stored within a home or office. Food and beverage pantries serve in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen.
What is Pantry Prep?
I’ve talked about Meal Prep and Recipe Prep. To my mind, that just leaves Pantry Prep. What is Pantry Prep? Pantry Prep, to me, is going through the items currently found in your pantry and making sure you have what you need to make your family’s favorite meals.
The Importance of Your Pantry
Stop right now and think about your pantry. Do you know what is in your pantry? If you had to, could you grab what you needed from your pantry to make a satisfying meal? If you had unexpected guests drop by close to mealtime, could you extend your planned meal to cover these guests? Maybe it’s time to organize and restock your pantry!
Organizing Your Pantry
There are dozens of shelf organizers that you can use to make your pantry easier to work with. Start with defining how much space you have to work with. In my cabinets, I discovered that my spices are the hardest to keep organized.
This is the type of organizer for my Spices I currently have. It fits into the small, narrow corner cabinet.
To show you what I mean, recently I put my groceries away only to find that I now had 3 bottles of Ketchup, 2 bottles of Balsamic Vinegar, and 2 bottles of Molasses!
If I’d had any kind of organization, I could have avoided that. Since then, I have tried to rotate things on my pantry shelves, putting the newest items in the back and the older items in the front. If you have the room, try to separate things into zones. Keep your staples like sugar, flour, etc., all together.
Can racks such as this one help enforce the idea of “first in, first out.” This rack can also be stacked if you have the space.
See these? They may become your best friend when you start organizing your pantry. There are a number of sizes that work great for storing food items that you can’t store in the original packaging.
If you notice in the After Photo, you can see labels on several of the containers. That’s an easy way to keep track of what’s in the container exactly. Bread Flour and All-Purpose Flour look the same but are not interchangeable! Also, on the various containers of pasta, I labeled the container with how much a serving was. Using containers for the pasta, instead of the original box made it much easier to see if I needed more.
Stocking Your Pantry
Most cookbooks that are for beginners tend to have a section on what the author recommends for the pantry. In searching Pinterest, I found several pantry checklists. I’ve started a board of Pantry ideas where I’m collecting these ideas and others.
Make a list!
The format you use is completely up to you. I can’t tell you what will work best for you. Here are a couple of ideas and where I found them.
This is a simple checklist that you can use. I found it on All Recipes.
I do have a few thoughts about this subject to pass along to you.
Make sure you can access the checklist easily whether you’re at home or out shopping. It doesn’t do you any good if it’s at home while you’re out shopping!
Make it a habit to update your checklist regularly. Not doing this led to the aforementioned multiple bottles of ketchup, vinegar, and molasses.
If you download one of the ones that I pinned on my Pinterest board, be sure to adapt it to your needs. (I’ve currently got a bottle of Fish Sauce in my pantry that I don’t remember why I added it!)
Take a moment to follow me on Pinterest. My next post in this series will focus on why we’re doing this. I promise you, there’s definitely a reason!
Homemade strawberry shortcake is a summer dessert classic, and the best versions are just the right balance of sweet, juicy, and creamy. I tested 5 popular Allrecipes.com strawberry shortcake recipes to see which was the best.
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These are the people who run towards danger. I’m reminded of a meme that I came across a few days ago.
“What is a veteran? A veteran – whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve – is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for any amount up to and including his or her life.”
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