This concrete cinder block pantry shelf comes together quickly, stands alone, and offers all the sturdiness you could need to shelve those home canned mason jars, store bought tin cans, pancake batter mixes, and any other pantry food extras you have in your home. And all for the price of a few concrete cinder blocks purchased at your local hardware or lumber store. Cost to Build Building a pantry shelf out of cinder blocks is perhaps one of the most inexpensive ways you will find to build shelving unit.  The most importable piece of this building fun is, or course,…

I love bananas. In fact, I think most people, save for sister and my husband, love eating bananas. (Okay…maybe  there are more anti-banana eaters out there than I care to admit…) When I was walking through the grocery store this morning and saw a cart full of these red-taped bananas, I got excited. For those of you who don’t know what a red-taped item of fruit is, it is a simple marking many small-scale, local grocery stores use for items on the verge of spoiling. The red tape marks not only that the fruit is riper than ripe and probably…