Kitchen Management aka meal prep

Kitchen  management is a tool that saves time and money in the kitchen. It makes meal time a lot less hectic.  A few minutes when you have time without interruptions, can save a lot of time becaise you are cleaning up once and things are peeled for dinner cooking.

Reminder of meals

1. Chili 
2. Pizza
3. Baked potato bar 
4. Chicken pot pie 
5. Chicken parm 
6. Ham and Swiss sliders 
7. Breakfast for dinner 

Prep 

1. Wash kitchen floor.
2. Clean out the refrigerator and dump anything dead 💀. 
3. Clean the outside and top of the refrigerator. 
4. Clean and disinfect countertops and sinks and drains, 
5. Wash the potatoes and carrots with vinegar water, 
6. Make the chili in the insta pot on slow cook. 
7. Organize the pantry, 
8. Make pudding 
9. Make rice crispy treats, 

Notes : we got pumpkin flavored marshmallows a while back, so we are making rice crispy treats.   One way to save money is to buy seasonal flavors after the season,   I just purchased a Christmas blend of tea.   It is still good, and it still is enjoyable.   

Taking advantage of every kind of sale you can is a way to cut your budget for consumables. Big lots has a twenty percent sale a couple of times a year.   Buying things ahead that you know you are going to use is a way of saving money.  It all ads up.   We bought our name brand liquid soap for less than the knockoff at the dollar store.  It was two dollars a gallon.   We just fill pump bottles.   It saves the landfill and our budget.   

Every little bit helps and that is how we have been able to eat and grow a stock on a budget t of less than four dollars a day.   

• Never pay full price.  Prices on food can very as much as two dollars for the EXACT same thing and the exact same brand. 
• Know your prices on  the things  you buy on a regular basis.   Use a small notebook that you can carry in your purse if you need to or out it on your phone if you have a note app. 
• Buy in bulk when it makes sense,  you are saving the landfill and your budget.   
• Buy your meat on a rotation basis when it is at its lowest price.  Buy enough to eat that meal an allotted number of times in a four to six week period.   Ditto other protein sources,  
• Buy the things you use on a regular basis when they are at their lowest prices and keep a four to six week supply.  This hedges disaster when it might arise, anything from a government shutdown, or a snow storm, or sickness.  It’s just piece of  mind not having to get to the store 
• the minute payday happens. Studies have  shown that not having food in the house can lower you life expectancy,  
• Meal plan,  it just saves time and money.  Make a plan or plan to fail. 
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