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Getting Your Kitchen Ready for Thanksgiving!

Michelle Lehman — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:27:37 +0000

As I mentioned last week, now would be a good time to get your menu started for Thanksgiving. I would like to take it one step further and let’s make sure your refrigerator/freezer is ready for Thanksgiving as well.

If you are going out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday or even if you are hosting Thanksgiving, now would be a great time to do some refrigerator organizing. Try not to buy to a lot of food that will not get used in the next couple of weeks or that will rot in your refrigerator while you are away.

Maybe the next two weeks you could have a “clean out” the refrigerator and pantry menu. Make meals out of what you already have at home to allow room for the turkey that will be in the refrigerator. Just buy perishable groceries that you need such as milk, fruit and vegetables and use of what have already have in your pantry and frig. Not only will you being using saving time at the grocery store you will be saving some money and I think we could all use a little extra money these days.

Before you head out of town, make sure to check your refrigerator. If you have any extra food that you know will not get eaten and it has not been open, take it to your local food pantry.

Author Michelle Lehman of Organizing Solutions “Clear the Clutter” Michelle is a Professional Organizer in the Tulsa area. Her articles have been featured in the Tulsa World, The Oklahoman, Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Post-Tribune. Michelle appears on TheNewsOn 6 KOTV and Fox23 News This Morning giving organizing tips and recommendations.

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Organize Your Refrigerator?!?!

Michelle Lehman — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:14:53 +0000

With summer here it time to eat healthier and save money, so let’s get your refrigerator in order. Just like your closet, if you don’t know what you have you tend to go out and buy more of the same thing without finishing or using what you already have at home.

All of the grocery stores make sure the newest dates are towards the front and place the older dates behind. That is why they rotate stock constantly to keep things fresh. You should be doing the same thing at your home. Place salad dressing behind the current one, place new milk behind your old milk and so on. Be careful of “sell by” dates or the “use by or freeze” dates. Certain items in your house scream “throw me away” when their date has passed. The funky smell of the milk or the cheese that has mold growing on it others you have to rely on the date stamp.

If you keep all of your meats and cheeses together in a drawer, fruits and vegetables in a drawer, yogurts on a shelf and salad dressings on the inside of door this will allow you be able to see what you have so you can make a shopping list without over buying. If you know what you have at home, you won’t tend to spend more at the grocery store and if you keep it organized you will know when your dates are about to expire.

Organizing Your Kitchen for the Holidays

Michelle Lehman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:11:24 +0000

Here a couple of quick tips on getting your kitchen ready for the holidays. Its a good idea to have your kitchen organized especially if you are entertaining. This is a great time to clean out that plastic food storage cabinet. Just locating all the lids and bowls will be a task!

Gather them all on the kitchen counter and start matching lids and containers. Set aside all of the plastic containers that you do not use or are missing lids. Now place all storage container with lids back in your cabinet or drawer. Use the containers you don’t want for take home containers for leftovers for your guests. You don’t want your best plastic containers leaving for good and there is no need to purchase more for the holidays.

For the next two weeks you could have a “clean out” the refrigerator and freezer. Prepare your meals from what you already have at home. Buy only perishable groceries that you need such as milk, fruit and vegetables and use of what have already have in your pantry and refrigerator for dinner the next two weeks. Not only will you being saving time at the grocery store you will be saving some money and I think we could all use a little extra money these days. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me cleartheclutter@cox.net