No Mess Cooking – A Neat Idea

  Is it really a good deal when you spouse offers to cook if you clean up?  Well, that depends on how messy they are!  I heard someone brag the other … Continued

Packing School Lunches

    Nine More Months of Lunch Packing   One child is yelling about missing gym clothes and another shouting that their life is over because their hair is standing … Continued

New Year’s Resolutions Should Start In the Pantry

    New Year’s Resolutions Should Start in the Pantry   Author Lea Schneider, a columnist for What’s Cooking America, is a freelance writer and organizational expert whose organizing ideas … Continued

Pantry Organization

Avoiding Old Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard That poor dog!  I have worried about him ever since I was a kid.  If only Mother Hubbard had been a bit more organized. There … Continued

Mise En Place

Begin Cooking with Mise En Place   Mise en place means: set up; installation, position; or setting up. There may not be a consensus as to the exact meaning but … Continued

Organizing and Planning Menus

  Conquering Menu Madness   Do the innocently asked words “What’s for dinner,” drive you mad? You are certainly not the only one! Every night, it is like we are … Continued

Organize Dinner Menus

  How to Manage Five Easy Nights of Family Meals It is organized – It is so easy!   One of the joys of being a professional organizer has been to work with … Continued

Holiday Kitchen

    Quick – Make Your Kitchen Welcoming   Your Holiday wish-list might be for everyone to stay out of your kitchen. Get real – It simply is not going to … Continued

Organizing Cookbooks- Lost Minutes To Be Found In The Kitchen

  A Recipe for Organizing Cookbooks   Sure there are lots of great recipes online, like the ones here at Whats Cooking America, but who does not love holding a cookbook … Continued

How To Organize Leftovers

    Organize My Leftovers – Please! It is the one organizing request that makes me laugh!   Leaning into the fridge, packed with tiny plastic containers, plastic wrapped mystery items … Continued

Laundry Room Cuisine

Laundry Room Cuisine – Kitchen Remodeling

Laundry Room Cuisine – Kitchen Remodeling           My most often asked question is “So do you eat out every night or what?”   It has come from … Continued

Part 3 – Kitchen Remodeling – Sixty-Year Transformation

Bringing Kitchen Remodeling Dreams to Life Sixty-Year Transformation Author Lea Schneider, a columnist for What’s Cooking America, is a freelance writer and organizational expert whose organizing ideas have been published … Continued

Kitchen Remodeling Cabinets

Part 2 – Kitchen Remodeling – Conquering Cabinet Choices

Bringing Kitchen Remodeling Dreams to Life Conquering Cabinet Choices   Author Lea Schneider, a columnist for What’s Cooking America, is a freelance writer and organizational expert whose organizing ideas have … Continued

Part 1 – Kitchen Remodeling – Where to Start

  Bringing Kitchen Remodeling Dreams to Life Where to Start Author Lea Schneider, a columnist for What’s Cooking America, is a freelance writer and organizational expert whose organizing ideas have … Continued

Forward thinking for kitchen updating

Forward Thinking For Kitchen Updating

  Author Lea Schneider, a columnist for What’s Cooking America, is a freelance writer and organizational expert whose organizing ideas have been published in many magazines including Woman’s Day, Better … Continued