12 Genius Kitchen Tips That You Probably Didn't Know About

12 Genius Kitchen Tips that you Probably Didn't Know About

So much of our day is spent in the kitchen or surrounding food preparation. There is the shopping, the cooking, the washing, the planning. Every day, at least 3 times a day we have to do something related to food.

In Grandmother's Kitchen, we know the important of saving money and time.

Cleaning

1. Save money by cleaning with baking soda and vinegar.

2. Homemade Orange Cleaner: Place the peel of an orange into a large canning jar. Fill with white vinegar and let sit for 10 days before using. When ready to use, discard the peel and put the liquid into a spray bottle. The vinegar and orange make a great disinfectant and degreaser.

3. You know those bits of parchment paper that are not that dirty from your last batch of cookies. Scrunch it in a ball, get it wet and use it several times to wash hard to clean pots and pans.

Food Preservation

4. Save time by buying enough bread for the whole week. Since bread freezes very well, you can save yourself a trip to the store by buying as many loaves as you need for that week.

5. If you bake a lot and have a deep freeze you can also freeze flour so you always have it on hand.

6. Make sure that your fresh produce does not go bad. When you get home, pre-wash/dry and store in airtight containers so they are easy to snack on.

Check out this short video how we do it: Grandmother's Time Saving Tip for Vegetables

7. When fruit is in season, buy it from a local farmer and freeze it in bulk for when winter comes around.

8. Invest in good tupperware. I like the kind that is glass with a plastic top. I take better care of them and I do not have to replace them nearly as often as you do with the cheap plastic kind.

Time Saving

9. Cook with parchment paper. Save time cleaning up hard to clean meals, by cooking on parchment paper. Back in the olden days, parchment paper was washed and re-used time and time again, so you do not have to throw it out just because of a few crumbs on it.

10. Use your kitchen time wisely. When you are waiting for a pot of water to boil, rather than multi tasking on your iphone, use this kitchen time to instead think about the next meal coming and making those preparation steps needed.

11. Make a weekly eating plan. Sometimes the most amount of mental effort is in thinking what to cook. If you know that you are going to eat chicken once a week, make Monday 'Chicken' night and Tuesday 'Vegetarian' night and so on. Then all you need to think about is what special spices to add to this dish.

12. Get help. If there are people around, put them to work. I can guarantee you that in the good old days, the kids did not just sit around while the adults prepared the meals. Sure it takes a bit of time to set them up, and sometimes seems like more hassle than it is worth, but in the long run you will be creating humans beings that know that when someone is working hard in the kitchen, that there is always something that they could be doing to help to lighten the load.

Grandmother's Kitchen Nutritionist - Heidi Rasmussen, BScN