These simple tricks can save you tons of time and money while cooking

Is your everyday life hectic?

Due to the lack of time and desire, do you often eat one-sidedly or feel stressed about the thought of cooking?

Then these tips are worth their weight in gold.

From singles to large families - eating and cooking is a topic that affects everyone and is not infrequently stressful.

What should be cooked, are the ingredients in the house, who is shopping and who is supposed to cut and prepare everything?

If you want to alleviate this frustration in the future, or even get rid of it completely,

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Here are the most important

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1. Tidy up your refrigerator

You will not find your way around a messy refrigerator and leftover food * that you could actually use will hide in the last corner and spoil before you discover them.

• Empty your refrigerator completely.

• Throw away anything that's past its use-by date (but be careful: not all foods that have expired are bad).

• Throw everything away or give away what you won't eat anymore anyway.

• Wipe the refrigerator thoroughly with vinegar water to remove dirt and unpleasant odors.

• Sort the food again into groups.

  Use baskets to better organize them.

When you can see everything at a glance, you are making better use of your supplies, throwing less away, and saving time and money.

Take a quick look in your refrigerator: these foods need to go out

Take a quick look in your refrigerator: these foods need to go out

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2. Make a meal plan

Countless recipes in cookbooks and on the web make it difficult to make a choice.

Keep track by giving days a specific motto.

Quick pasta Monday, meat-free Friday, casserole Wednesday - if you know which way to look for recipes, you can make up your mind much faster.

Write down recipes that you have tried and found good so that you can plan for them again.

Some people even have a

that repeats itself over and over again within a chosen time period.

It couldn't be easier or faster ...

3. Don't prepare too much at once

Real pre-cookers prepare

on Sunday

.

This can quickly overwhelm beginners and they won't even start.

So it's better to stack deep and start with one or a maximum of two dishes that you pre-cook.

Choose a fixed day for this.

When everything has worked out, you can gradually increase the number of precooked recipes.

4. Write a detailed shopping list

If you have your meal plan and the dishes that you want to pre-cook ready, you can go shopping.

With a

- preferably even written after

supermarket - you save a lot of time and frustration when shopping.

All you have to do, if at all, is to buy fresh food with a short shelf life on a daily basis.

5. Prepare carefully for cooking

You know it from cooking and baking programs: the ingredients are ready prepared and weighed ready and then only have to be used.

Hobby cooks mostly just cook and get bogged down.

The result: you get stressed and the result may not be what you expected.

So read the recipe carefully beforehand, prepare all the ingredients and then cook efficiently and with fun.

6. Go for one-pot dishes

The name is new, the principle is not at all: one-pot recipes follow the principle of the good old stew and develop it further.

There are now countless recipes in which you combine the ingredients in a saucepan at the same time or one by one in order to be rewarded with a round, delicious dish at the end.

This not only saves you work and time when cooking, but also when washing up.

7. Pre-cook certain foods

You don't have to prepare every ingredient separately for each recipe.

If you look at your weekly schedule, you may see that you can pre-roast the chicken on Monday that you need for a recipe on Wednesday.

You may be able to

a

for a recipe

, which you can then use for another dish.

Think ahead and save time and work.

Professional tip from precookers: Pre-cook rice or pasta and freeze them in portions.

8. Freeze, save time

In general,

to save a lot of time after work during the week.

You cook on the weekend or on days when you have the time and inclination and then freeze the results away in suitable portions.

You just have to keep in mind that not all foods or dishes are suitable for this.

Some change their consistency or, worse, their taste - this includes potato dishes, for example.

Soups, on the other hand, are great to freeze and warm up quickly, especially if you store them flat in freezer bags.

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