Label it

"Label me...otherwise I'm gonna spoil your taste", those were the words spoken by the crazy containers in my kitchen closet. Life becomes easy when the unlabeled food containers are under ONE (wo)MAN ARMY control. They confuse us with their talents(tastes) when more people enter their territory.

Now you know what I'm talking ;-). Yes...it's the problem with unlabeled Masala and other powders in the kitchen closet. When it comes to storing grains and powders, I prefer transparent containers, and one of my favorite brand is PearlPet. Thanks to my sister-in-law for introducing me to PearlPet.

These containers are much better than Steel dabbas that make me google around until I find the target. But still there is another problem..how about the unlabeled powders that deceive your eyes? And YES...it happened to us once when my parents visited few years back. 

With BP patients at home, we reduced our salt intake. But didn't relalize why our food was bland even after pouring so much salt. This mystery continued for four days. First day, we blamed the tomatoes, Second & Third days, blamed the poor onions. Fourth day, I got a call from my dear husband who was WFH on Ganesh Chaturthi. He called me to share the most exciting moments of his life "you know what, today Ganesh is so happy, even butter milk is tasting sweet". OMG, I couldn't stop laughing and immediately asked my mother to taste the salt powder. Voila...that was not salt...but Sugar. All happened when my mother poured Sugar into Masala Dabba. Big lesson learned and will never forget in my life ;-).

That makes all the confusing powders in my kitchen closet to display their identity. Good exercise..but worth spending time in labeling them. Can't imagine all these white powders without labels...

 

Not just white powders, those spicy indian masala powders are siblings to the confusing category.

Small tip before I end this post...if you have printer, use it to print the labels. If not, just cut and use the labels on the covers to label the containers.

All you need is scissor, cellotape and few minutes of your time. Enjoy..