I do, I do! (Kristen waves her hands in the air desperately…) I find that even when I cook with mostly fresh-from-the-market foods I still have canned goods falling over, rolling around, and being endlessly re-arranged by my little man Brennan.
I use a lot of canned tomato products and I use a lot of canned coconut milk as well. I also use canned chicken or tuna if I need a quick meal and I like keeping canned beans on hand to throw together a meal in a pinch, or add some protein to a meal.
And I like having a decent supply of food on hand so I won’t have to run to the store if someone is sick, or if something were to happen like a big storm. It’s a little security feature for me to have a full cupboard 
So what I’d really love is to have a great way to organize my canned goods. Preferably something that will keep my Brennan happy too… and amazingly, I’m not alone. I’ve found something that would be 100% perfect. On Friday I have a chance to win one – and so do you. I thought I’d share the wonder that is the Shelf Reliance Harvest unit.
You know those marble toys you played with as a kid (or jealously watched your brother play with as you got yet another pair of plastic high heels)? You dropped the marble in at the top and watched it roll down the levels. Well the Shelf Reliance shelves do that for your cans – keeping them neat, and automatically rotating them so you’re using them in a “first in, first out” order. It’s very nice!
Go to the Shelf Reliance Blog and enter to win this wonder of human ingenuity for yourself.
And in the meantime, you can see what the kids and I have been rigging up for a summer project – homemade can rotating racks 
Scott got inspired and built us a wooden one too, which will probably last long after our cardboard ones. But it’s fun and the kids are loving it. If only they were front-loading like the Shelf Reliance System :p
