Getting Organized
Leads to Saving Money and Time
Getting organized is all about living simpler and making things
easier. The bonus is it often leads to saving money. Lea Schneider's kitchen organizing columns tell you how to organize the many
things that relate to kitchens, menus, meals, and special food
events.
Christmas and Thanksgiving Help:
Big Meal Doesn't Have To Equal Big Mess
Organizing for Clean-Up Makes for an Easier Holiday
Christmas kitchen secrets of the organized
Suggestions to help you make holiday entertaining look easy.
Organizing Holiday Tablescapes
Beautiful table settings or tablescapes,
which combines the words table + landscape, begins with a bit of
organization. Organization and creativity go
hand-in-hand. Nearly every creative project begins with some kind of
planning, organizing or gathering. A beautiful holiday table is no
different.
Paper or plastic for holiday organization?
Holidays mean more recipes and groceries! Turn the kitchen chaos into calm.
Prepare for the Holidays - Head Back to Basics in Organizing
With the holidays fast approaching, you could probably use a
little help in making your kitchen tidy and getting it organized.
Getting organized in the kitchen means getting down to the basics.
Quick! Make your kitchen welcoming
Kitchens are a company magnet. Make yours welcoming with these steps.
Storing Fine China - Store Your Fine China for Ease of Use
If setting the Thanksgiving table was just too much trouble – or if you were relieved that you didn’t have to
drag out your good dishes - maybe your storage needs tweaking.
Storing Table Linens
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Organizing Linens Takes the Wrinkle out of Entertaining
Don't wait for company. Get your table linens finally organized.
Begin organizing by gathering all your table linens from this spot and
that. Open them up and decide if they are still good to use.
Thanksgiving Organizer
Minimize turkey day stress with this checklist.
How to pace out your food chores.
Kids in the Kitchen:
Creating A Child Friendly Kitchen 1
Organize a child-friendly kitchen. Teach the basic kitchen skills they will need.
Creating A Child Friendly Kitchen 2
(Tips for working with kids in the kitchen)
There tips will help you work with your kids in the kitchen - without going crazy!
Kitchen Time Management:
Cool Cooking Tips for Too-Hot-to-Cook Days
When you are looking for ways to cool off on hot days, I know you
turn right to organizing. While you might think that is crazy, there
are some great organizing ideas that can help you cool off in the
kitchen or at meal times.
For dinner tonight - A plan!
How to develop a plan for feeding the family.
Four Steps to an Organized Clean
Make a clean break with kitchen grime with an organized cleaning routine.
Got a minute? Ten minutes, one
hour and more kitchen organizing ideas
You can get something done no matter how much or how little time you have.
Is cooking dinner at your house
like juggling eggs?
Do you keep moving clutter from here to there? How to focus and finish.
Mise en Place - Begin Cooking with Mise en Place
A cooking time saver - and stress reliever - by lining up your cooking.
Six Mistakes Keeping You Disorganized
If you made a resolution to be more organized in the New Year, you
are in good company. That is one of the top ten New Year’s
resolutions. Keeping that resolution becomes a lot easier if you
can avoid some of the common organizing mistakes.
Organize an Emergency Food Pantry:
Get Organized Today for an Emergency Tomorrow - Emergency Food Pantry
Don't wait for disaster! Organize your pantry for an emergency.
Organizing
Food: Fridge, Freezer and Pantry
Ideas:
Avoiding Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard
Stop reaching into the cupboard or pantry and coming up empty handed.
Getting ahead with your lettuce -
Using fresh bags and green bags
Throwing away
produce is like pitching out money. Learn to make your
produce last longer.
Ideas for organizing snacks - Stop wasting dollars on stale snacks
Check out these tips to maximize your snack dollars.
New Year’s
resolutions should start in the pantry
The key to keeping some of your New Year's resolutions lies in
the pantry.
Organize my leftovers
Make the most of your food by making the most of your leftovers.
Pantry Organizations - Managing Your Extra Staples
What’s the solution for storing extra condiments and staples?
Pantry Organizations - Stock Up On Staples
No matter if you are a seasoned chef or starting your first
apartment, it’s great to have a checklist for staple items you
should have on hand.
Where’s the Beef?
Managing your most expensive grocery items
In this economy, making good use of meat purchases is really
important!
Organize Grocery Shopping:
A Strategy for Battling Your Grocery Budget
Here are some tricks to help you save money on your grocery budget.
Clues for the
coupon clipper
Learn how to organize those coupons you always
meant to use.
Organize my hunger pain
Walk in circles in the grocery store? Learn how to organize your shopping trips.
Organizing for savings
Put organizational skills to work to stretch those grocery
shopping dollars.
Organize Herbs and Spices:
Some
spicy ideas
Great ways to
organize your spice cabinet.
You couldn’t possibly be outdated. Could you?
You don't have 15-year-old spice -
or do you? Check it out here.
Organize Kitchen, Cabinets, and Drawers:
Change your kitchen along with your
hair color
Change your kitchen organization to match the way you live now.
Dealing with Kitchen Downsizing -
How To Downsize and Organize Your Kitchen
Moving to a smaller kitchen can be a large task. Downsizing is possible!
Desperate for Cluttered Kitchen Help
My friend’s cabinets are so jammed with things that I don’t even know where to begin and how to get her organized.
I am clueless for ideas on where to start in for her kitchen.
Hard-to-use Lower
Cabinets - Get ideas for maximizing your space
Maximize the space you have by making the best use of your
cabinets.
Is your kitchen really too small??
Here are some tips to make the best of
that too-small feeling kitchen.
Keeping your resolution to
get organized
Keeping your resolution about
getting organized is possible. Learn how here.
Motivation for Organizing:
It’s not just what you eat but where you eat it
Looking for things all the time? Here's a health motivation to get organized.
Organizing on a Dime -
Creating Order in Your Kitchen is Priceless
Push
me in the general direction of an everything-in-here-costs-a-dollar
type store and I’m happy.
Out of Room in the Kitchen - Think Out-Of-The-Kitchen for Storage
You’ve pulled things out, rearranged, shoved them back in, and you
just can’t make everything you want fit in that kitchen. The first piece of advice you probably received was to pare things
down. However, if you are like me, then you like to
entertain so that advice just isn’t reasonable.
Prepare for the Holidays - Head Back to Basics in Organizing
With the holidays fast approaching, you could probably use a
little help in making your kitchen tidy and getting it organized.
Getting organized in the kitchen means getting down to the basics.
Sliding Drawers
for Lower Cabinets
It's easy to update older cabinets
with the addition of drawers.
Ten Organizing Ideas for Your Kitchen
Ten little things that influence the big kitchen organizing picture.
Organize Recipes and Menus:
A bride’s recipe for disorganization
Organize recipes from the printer - from magazines
and from Mom.
Conquering menu madness
Does "What's for dinner," drive you mad? It's time to get menus that
work.
Cooking for
two
- A baker’s dozen of tips
Your really can cook for two and find variety.
For dinner tonight - A plan!
How to develop a plan for feeding the family.
