Comments on: Kitchen Organization for Healthy Eating

By: Kitchen Replacement Doors

Kitchen Replacement Doors — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:08:00 +0000

Simple and nicely tips but its work. Again another basic simple thing that helps so much. I am learning from this so much . Great tips really u give .
Excellent ……

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:47:50 +0000

I frequently give myself a break by cooking two dinners at once. We have one that night, one the next night. I also use my freezer by freezing chicken and meats in marinade or cut up for quick stir-fries or pasta dishes.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:45:14 +0000

Feeding our crew is the bane of my existence. I don’t know what the answer is. I wasn’t taught how to cook & struggled my way through things until I discovered a menu-planning e-mail service (savingdinner.com), which worked great for me for about 2 years, until I had my 3rd child (when my oldest was 3 1/2). I never quite recovered. By the time he was old enough not to be quite so needy, he was into stuff & it was hard to make dinner uninterrupted. Still is.

Since then, I’ve had 2 MORE pregnancies (a loss and a live birth), and my oldest turned 6 one month before the birth of my 4th. I’m not sure how we’re eating every day. It’s a constant struggle. Part of my resistance to going back to menu planning is that I don’t know how to get to the store once weekly. Right now, I’m going for the out-of-everything run once every 3 wks or so. Other than that, hubby’s 2 gal of milk & 2 loaves of bread & we’re scavenging. I CANNOT go to the store w/ all 4 kids & have no babysitting. I’m too tired to go shopping after hubby gets home 7 p.m. or so. I hate to ruin the precious few weekend hours with a shopping trip. I don’t know what to do!

Has anyone here survived the years of many needy little ones?

By: Susan Coates

Susan Coates — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:56:35 +0000

This is a great post and some really great ideas. I am going to go clear off my counter top right now. :)

By: Margery

Margery — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:10:55 +0000

Among the other things you mentioned, I absolutely cannot cook dinner if the dishwasher is not unloaded! (We usually run it after the b’fast and lunch dishes are in.) My husband thinks I’m funny about that. When it is unloaded and the clean things put away, I can load in the dirty pans, cooking utensils, etc. as I am preparing the evening meal.

By: Judith

Judith — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:58:10 +0000

Oh, the organizing does help. Baking pans together. Baking ingredients together. Washing up as you go to keep the counters clean and the overwhelming mess under control. Menus. Cooking batches and cooking some things ahead.
In my good weeks, of course. LOL

By: meme

meme — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:41:05 +0000

I do the cinnamon swirl bread with any bread recipe similar as mentioned above-
you can toast it in toaster oven – I use brown sugar rather than – do not over do with the spread- to avoid leakage which may burn before your bread is baked-

re kids- if they are older past the age of perhaps eating the dough- I let them make buns even though the shapes may not be quite perfected- and sometimes allow them a small bun size of dough to play with for a while- a small waste but can be fun for them on wax paper- Meme is past making play dough–

By: Hope Cantrall

Hope Cantrall — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:14:03 +0000

I too love clean countertops…I can’t stand to have stuff on them. I wash dishes as I make dinner & will do things for the next day while cooking dinner also. Often I am making lunches for the next day & marinating meat for the next night’s meal or browning ground turkey to freeze for meals in the future or for the next night. Like you I figure if I am going to be in the kitchen, I make the best use of my time in there. I don’t feel like I am in the kitchen forever at all.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:13:21 +0000

I use the Tupperware Modular Mates system to keep all the “liked” cooking things together. I am able to find things quickly because of the design of the system being clear and my cabinets are organized because of the way they stack.
I am able to cook quickly and neatly! LOVE IT!

By: Penelope

Penelope — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:26:21 +0000

I, too, am fanatical about a clean countertop. I always wash dishes as I go, so its not so overwhelming when the meal is over…and it keeps my cooking space tidy!