Cluttered Kitchen

Does anyone else have kitchen cabinets full of boxes of ingredients that you bought to make a recipe but the recipes didn't call for the whole box so the rest is just left in the box slowly heading towards its best before date.  I know I do so today I am going to pick to boxes from my cabinet and search for recipes I can make using those items.

Today's items are:

Some organic pearled Barley and a jar of roasted red peppers.  The red peppers aren't opened, I bought them for a recipe a while back which I didn't get round to making and can't even remember what it was I was going to make.

So over the weekend I will be trawling the web looking for recipes that I can use one or both of these ingredients in.  

If you are reading this and want to do the same, please leave a comment with your 2 ingredients and stop back when you find a good recipe and leave a link.

Organizing the kids toys

I mentioned yesterday that kids toys seem to be everywhere in my house.  Today I am going to be keeping an eye out around the web for deals on storage solutions.  If anyone knows of a giveaway, review or coupons out there that are good for this please let me know by leaving a comment with a link. 

Another thing I need to do is to get rid of some of the kids toys that they don't need. I am not a fan of ebay so I don't think I'll be taking that route.  I may use craigslist to sell some of the items which I think might be worth something and then freecycle the rest.  I have a bunch of kids clothes as well.  I wonder if there is a way to get a few bucks for them, they are in good shape, they just got to small for my kids.

I have to spend 15 minutes today working on clearing some of the paper clutter from my desk too.

I'll post again later if I find any good tips or deals around the web.