Today's Kitchen Lifehack

Spring is in the air - or so it seems - and I am ready for warm weather projects to improve our lives and our house. The smallest of the projects slated for this weekend was a quick kitchen lifehack, that was also, a form of recycling.

For those of you who don't know... (per Urban Dictionary)

We use mason jars a lot in our home and I'm always looking for new ways to use them. We have several half gallon jars we use to store rice, pasta and animal crackers (all of my favorite carbs), we obviously use them for canning, oftentimes I carry my lunch in them to work and they were the centerpieces at our wedding. This hack makes their storage of dry goods a little bit easier and adorable! 

All you need is a mason jar - of any volume and mouth size, it's matching ring, an empty round salt container with pour spout and an Xacto knife. Trace the ring onto the salt container (around the spout) and carefully cut out the circle with an Xacto knife. Press the cardboard circle into the ring (spout up), fill your jar with whatever dry goods you'd like and close it. Voila! A new, handy jar with easy-to-close spout. We are using ours for our bulk Splenda that we use when we make tea and are looking to make a few smaller ones, too! It'd be great for dry goods you may not use that often but that come in larger, un-sealable packages - like cornstarch or baking soda.