I have been getting a little frustrated when cooking over the last couple of weeks. It just seems like it takes so much effort to make a meal and sometimes I just don’t feel like doing it. I started to reflect on how I was preparing meals and what specifically was frustrating me the most about preparing them. There were 2 areas that I thought of that are making candida diet cooking harder than I believe it has to be. The first area is my spices. My spices were all over the place and it took me too long to find what I needed when I needed it. The second area is all of the different gluten free flours I am now using. I must have at least 10 different types of flours and/or flour starches in my refrigerator. They are all in their original bags slightly torn and as I take each one out to use it flour always spills all over the place as I am trying to get an accurate measurement. Additionally this makes for a very sloppy refrigerator and makes me long for the days were one bag of all purpose flour was sufficient in my household.
So here I identified 2 areas that I needed to get organized. I knew that if I could make using both the spices and flours/starches easier maybe candida cooking could be easier. I indulged in a few new kitchen purchases to organize these two areas. For the spices I bought the Tagco Spice Stack – White
The Spice Stack is something I had been looking into buying for a while but just never got around to ordering it. I knew a long time ago that I needed something to help me keep my spices organized but when I am on the candida diet organizing my spices becomes even more important. Candida cooking requires creativity and some of this creativity is fueled by the use of spices. Mixing appropriate spices helps you to create splendid candida diet meals and if these spices are not organized and therefore hard to find cooking becomes harder than it has to be. So far my spice rack has really helped me to work towards an organized kitchen. I can now find my spices easily and have them right were I need them when cooking. I bought the larger spice rack, that holds up to 27 spice bottles. If you do not use that many spices there is also a smaller one Spice Stack available that holds up to 18 bottles.
I needed to find a good way to organize my flour/starches so I set out to the container store. I love the container store. It inspires me to organize everything in my house. There were a few items that I looked out that would work for this task such at stainless containers and/or glass containers but in the end I decided on Snapware plastic storage containers. They are shatterproof and this was very important to me because I am clumsy and I do break things. They were also pretty affordable compared to the other choices. They were also listed as BPA (Bisphenol A) free at the store but I was not certain that this was true since BPA free was not listed on the product labeling. As I am sure many people are aware of there is much debate over whether BPA are hazardous to our health. I called the company to verify and found out that these containers do indeed contain BPA. I thought about taking them back but I decided that since I was not going to be reheating things in these containers that they do not pose a risk to our health. I realize that some people may still be concerned and may want to go with an alternative method of storage. There are many options and I encourage you to choose what is right for you. I bought 4 – 64 ounce containers and 6 – 32 ounce containers. This really helped me to store the flours/starches in a much more organized way. I labeled each container using freezer tape and a Sharpie.
I feel like organizing these 2 areas in my kitchen will help me do my daily candida diet cooking with ease. If you are stuggling in kitchen organization I hope these ideas are helpful to you.
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