10 random hacks

10 things that will make your life easier on the kitchen.  Bit by bit your time in the kitchen can be shortened without sacrificing meals.

• Hard cooked eggs :   Eggs are .88 this week,   They are an inexpensive source  of protein. Place eggs in the shells into the cups of a muffin tin .   Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.  Immediately purge into an ice water bath. 
• Keeping a receptacle, such as an individual popcorn container (Dollar Tree) on top of the refrigerator makes it easy to gather ice for an ice bath. 
• Putting things that go together on the same space on the refrigerator saves hunting  for things, and saves time.  A plastic basket or food container can corral individual yogurt cups.  Putting all the sweet condiments on one door shelf and all the savory on another saves hunting  time.  
• Salad dressing in another.  If it is full, you have too many variables. 
• Take one freezer door shelf for pizza. Pizza  sauce is a dollar at the dollar tree.  ( name brand) . Freeze it in an ice cube tray, that should make 10 cubes,  you need 2 for a medium pizza.  After they are frozen, you can pop them out into a zip lock.  
• When cutting peppers, cut the top and bottom off.  Then cut the middle into slices ready for casseroles or fajitas.  The top and bottom, cut into small dice for pizza.   Freeze in a zip lock and put on the same shelf.  It is easier to slice anything with a waxy outer shell if you cut it with the inside up.  You are cutting into the flesh instead of the waxy outside.  
• Anytime you are cutting or cooking  something that goes on a pizza, save a bit for the pizza shelf,   Instant easy pizza.  Homemade cheese pizza costs a bit more than a dollar when ingredients are bought at RBP. 
• Grouping dairy, leftovers, and condiments on the refrigerator shelves makes it easy to see what you are missing, and avoids that dreaded science  experiment in the back of the refrigerator. 
• Lining your vegetable bin with paper towels makes clean up easier.   
• A large plastic bucket with a lid does double duty as a receptacle for vinegar water for cleaning veggies, a ice bath bucket, and a bulk bread dough container.