23F/ SW: 240 / CW: 230
So I know that when an environment is clean and organized and welcoming, it’s easier to be there. It’s easier to work. But I had no idea how cleaning up my kitchen would influence my eating habits.
My husband and I recently decided to clean up and organize our kitchen since we were “adults” who recently graduated college and got a little extra cash from stimulus/tax returns. We did some research and went and got containers and baskets and organizers (mostly from dollar tree and Walmart lol). We labeled everything even to the shelves on the fridge so we know which shelf to put things on. We got extra Tupperware and even some matching his/her bento boxes.
Y’all. It has changed my life. Instead of having all our food mixed matched and hard to find, it’s all neat and organized. I feel so fancy taking food out of clear containers. It makes it easier to measure/weigh for some reason. Probably because I have to weight it instead of just scanning a label and guesstimating.
I love cooking now. I know where every spice and utensil is. I put oils in little squirt chef bottles and I love it.
We do the dishes every night because the pantry looks good, why shouldn’t the counters and sink?
I don’t know if anyone else had the same feeling, but for some reason having a clean and organized kitchen and a proper food system has helped tremendously. It inspires me to measure, cook, and keep it clean.
It’s so much easier for me to open a container, measure out a portion, put it back and then only eat that portion. Before I would just grab the whole package and eat it straight from there. We put the healthy snacks at eye level so they’re easier to see and grab. Everything is organized into little baskets so I can pull it out, use it, and put it in instead of constantly checking behind packages and bags and oh hey there’s some apple cider packets we bought 7 months ago that we thought we lost and turns out they’ve been hiding behind the seven cans of soup we got and hadn’t eaten yet.
Not going to lie, it’s life changing. I don’t know how I survived in an unorganized kitchen before. How did I live without a breakfast basket and shelf where I can just grab and go?
Has cleaning/organizing the kitchen helped anyone in their journey or is a clean kitchen just the right of passage to adulthood that I missed lol.
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