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Making-life-easier-one-tip-at-time. Here is another post full of amazing tips to help you make life a little easier. Enjoy! Connect with me & stay up to date with new posts on DIYHSH Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Google+ | Instagram This post may contain affiliate links. Use flower pots to keep bugs and dirt off of your food during an outdoor BBQ. Waste less water. Related posts 8 Mouthwatering Burger Recipes A Black Thumb’s Gardening Hacks 6 Must Try Popcorn Recipes 35 Amazingly Delicious Taco Recipes A simple way to hang a heavy item on the wall. Related posts: Tips, Tips, and More Tips 18 Ways to Re-Purpose a Picture Frame 21 Delicious Jalapeño Recipes The 8 Best Cheesecake Recipes Ever To soften butter quickly, place it between two sheets of wax paper. 10 Fun Food Hacks Bacon Overload 40 Mind Boggling Summer Life Hacks 5 Simple Hacks to Beat The Summer Heat Recycle a soda box to organize cans in your pantry!

10 Brilliant DIY Organizers From Recycled Cardboard Genius Ideas For Organizing Your Kitchen 6 DIY Recycled Pill Bottle Kits. Diapers Help Your Plants Grow! The Fridge Pen. Look up manuals for free. Copy-Paste Tool. Portion hamburg in freezer bags. Although it might be nice if I were organized enough to plan out all of our dinners and my son’s bento lunches in advance, that’s never going to happen — not my style. I operate from more of the spur-of-the-moment approach to cooking, so it’s essential to have a well stocked freezer and pantry. One drawback, though, is that if I’ve frozen food in big blocks, I can’t use just a bit quickly without defrosting the whole thing. Enter my Japanese-language freezing books . A standard tip for freezing ground foods or thick sauces in small portions is to first put the food into a large freezer bag and press it out as flat as possible, eliminating air pockets.

Because you’re touching the freezer bag and not the meat directly when flattening it out, your hands don’t get messy, and the food and work surface stay clean. (Read on for variations and space-saving storage hints.) You don’t need a big flat open space in your freezer for this, either. Print This Post | Email this post.