From Your Kitchen To Yours
Organizing your kitchen We like to cover all bases here at the magazine so this is for the new cooks and beginners out there, lots of the things I do now I learnt going up, my mother was a cook who kept a well-stocked kitchen so I was lucky in that respect. Before you do anything else but one of those magnetic pads for your shopping lists or a bull clip to pin a list to the wall. If you spend enough time in the kitchen you’ll think of things now and again you’re running low on, this way pop it on your list and the shopping list writes itself. For cupboards, we use lower cupboards for dinnerware and equipment and upper cupboards for food storage. We love having everything sealed away, you can reuse glass jars for this you can use plastics but with issues around chemicals from plastics leaching into foods during storage. We prefer to avoid the risk. If you’re wondering what I am talking about check out this article from the guardian on PFA’s and Food https://bit.ly/3uPBxln. We tend to put things we use regularly in the cupboards closest to the cooker. Once things are away we do a food inventory, this also helps with meal planning and shopping lists. Because we make recipes for both Gluten-free and regular diets, we have separate cupboards to avoid cross-contamination. If you’re low on cupboard space try a storage box.
