Kitchen management is a tool that keeps your kitchen clean and preps diners so the dinner hour is less hectic. It is an hour well spent.
- Wash kitchen floor
- Disinfect kitchen counters and sinks and drains.
- Clean out refrigerator and dump anything dead. Wash shelves.
- Put stove fan screen through the dishwasher .
- Mark the meal plan with anything that needs to be defrosted before the day of dinner.
- make salad , put in container with a paper towel . Wash tomatoes .
- Wash carrots and potatoes in vinegar water and dry.
- Wash cheese containers and fill.
- Clean and straighten pantry.
- Deep clean the self serve coffee pot. Clean under the hot boards.
Like bulk buying, prepping saves time and money. It saves money because you are prepping a sink of vinegar water once and washing all your veggies at the same time. It, by the way, is a favorite chore of our 5 yo. Maybe because our vegetable brush is a lady bug. LOL.
There is something to be said for having a small stock of food on hand. You can eat well and have a stock on hand even on a budget that is less than SNAP allotment. I’m not going to say that it doesn’t take some planning and some work at first, but it is surprisingly low maintenance once you get the hang of it. Being organized is key. Having all of one thing in the same place helps. A few plastic baskets from the dollar store makes a big difference. That black hole of a freezer becomes manageable and you can see at a glance what you need to replenish. Most of the time, you don’t put yourself in the position of having to go to the store.
We are on the emergency ration toilet paper. We do have to go to Costco today. LOL. A simple trick. Buy yourself a four pack of TP at the DT. Put it in the back of the closet. When you hit the DT stuff, it’s time to go to Costco, but you have avoided a disaster!! LOL
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