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5 Essentials for Hosting a Backyard BBQ

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It’s time to fire up the grill and get together with friends and family for backyard barbecues. With a little planning and prep work, your outdoor festivities are sure to be a lot of fun for everyone. Plus, with versatile party essentials, you’ll be able to spend more of your time socializing because you’ll be organized and have the prep work done ahead of time. Here’s a quick list of must-haves to make sure your summer get-togethers go smoothly on the food front.  Bowl Set Festive Reusable Plates Save your fine china and breakable dishware for another occasion. For summer barbeques, think easy, casual serveware but stay away from the disposable options if you can help it. Instead, you could opt for rimmed reusable plates in colorful colors because they’re an environmentally-friendly option. Entertain with ease and feel good about sustainable serveware choices. You can take a great set of plates with you camping, on picnics, or use them at home for the little ones, too.

Get Ready for Spring with New Kitchen Tools and Storage Containers

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As springtime and warmer weather inch closer, you’re probably well on your way to cleaning the grill, moving the crockpot to the back shelf, and taking inventory of your summer serveware and storage solutions. Get ready for a new season of baking, grilling, and cooking with the following kitchen products.  Master Shredder Shred and Grate Salads Like a Pro For all those fresh salads and slaws you’re going to make this summer, you’ll need a capable shredder with multiple attachments for grating a hearty amount of food. You can prepare delicious and attractive salads or make tasty veggie burgers efficiently with a hand-held master shredder with a crank. If you have any easy-to-use tool like that, you’ll no longer need to buy pre-shredded cheese or carrots. Prep Fruits and Veggies for Smoothies If you love making fresh smoothies and juices, you can cut your chopping time down significantly if you have a cool chopping tool. You can find choppers that you don’t have to plug i

The Best Ways to Store Citrus and Other Fruit

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When you’re slicing lots of fruit or preparing a kid’s snack, you might not use all of it. Instead of wasting half a fruit or forcing yourself to finish it, use creative fruit storage techniques. You can use food containers to store unused or sliced fruit, helping to keep it fresh for even the pickiest fruit eaters. If you need help figuring out the best ways to store your fruit, the following information will help.  Big Container Dedicated Citrus Food Containers The most commonly wasted or forgotten fruits are probably lemon, lime, or orange halves. After using one half, you might have covered the other with a bit of plastic wrap or aluminum foil. Instead of single-use plastic, look for a bright set of citrus keepers for these fruits. Dedicated citrus food containers help them stay fresher for longer. Plus, they’re easy to see in the fridge so that you won’t forget about your fruit! Stackable, Nesting Options for the Fridge You don’t want any larger containers crowd

6 Kitchen Essentials to Get Before Moving Into Your First Place

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Moving into a new place is a whirlwind of packing, unpacking, and picking out new supplies. Moving into your first place can be tricky because you often don’t have kitchen supplies that you can just pack over from a previous place. But don’t wait until you need to use something to add it to your list. Here is a handy list of essentials from an ice tray to microfiber towels to stock up on before you move into your new place. Be prepared right out the gate!  Ice Tray Kitchen Gadgets Home cooking is so much more fun and enjoyable when you have some nifty kitchen tools and gadgets ready to go. Some of the most widely used are can openers, peelers, cheese graters, mandolins, and colanders. These tools can help you streamline dinnertime no matter what you're making. Various Utensils You will definitely need more than one cooking utensil when you move into your new place. It’s a wonderful idea to stock up on at least one of each of the following: a spatula, a mixing spoon

The Best Ways to Organize and Serve the Food at Your Next Picnic

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One of the best ways to celebrate the arrival of spring is to have a picnic. Not just any picnic either. You want a full course meal of all the foods that help you get in the mood for the new season. Fruit, vegetables, crackers, sandwiches, juice, all of it. But with so much, how do you keep it all organized and ready to serve? With the right food storage containers , each step of the picnic process becomes a breeze, leaving you more time to enjoy the fresh air you missed all winter. Here is a step-by-step guide on organizing your food for a better picnic experience. Make Sure All the Food Is Organized and Ready to Transport Before the Picnic The pre-picnic organization process sets you up for success when you get to the park. Everything can go smoothly if you properly store all of your food. To start, you need containers that keep your food fresh and can be easily stacked and stored together. A Tupperware organizer set is an awesome way to do this. You can keep all your

The Top 5 Food Slicing Tools for Shredding, Mincing, and Peeling

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You could probably get by with one good knife for cutting tasks in the kitchen. But having a range of slicing tools is much easier and faster. Food and meal prep can be a breeze with everything from a mandoline to a mincer. Who doesn’t love perfectly thin-sliced potatoes for au gratin dishes or shaved parmesan for pizzas? Stock your kitchen with the following tools and find out just how efficient you can become with otherwise time-consuming prep work.  A Deluxe Shredding System If you had a shredding accessory that could quickly grate foods like hard and soft cheeses, raw vegetables, and potatoes, you’d be set on many prep fronts. A convenient shredding product such as a Master Shredder from Tupperware has a hand crank and spinning grates, which makes prepping cheese, carrots, cucumbers, potatoes for hash browns, and even hard-boiled egg yolks, a lot easier. Box graters are handy, too, but they can only do so much. A Multipurpose Mincer for Meat and Everything Else Something like a

Top Kitchen Gear for the Meal Prep Enthusiast

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Meal prepping can make any week just a little bit easier. You spend one day making meals for the week, and you’re good to go. This frees up so much time in your schedule for other things besides wondering, “What’s for dinner?” Of course, every meal planner needs gear to get the job done and to keep their food fresh all week long (or longer). It’s all about maximizing efficiency, so you’re not stuck in the kitchen doing all the work you had intended to avoid. Here are a few essentials you need to help streamline your meal prep Sunday. Ice Tray Try an Ice Tray for More Than Ice Meal planning isn’t always about cooking and putting together meals all at once. It can be, but when you want to maximize freshness and variety, you might simply prep your ingredients ahead of time for easy cooking during the week. One piece of kitchenware that gets overlooked in meal planning is the ice tray . Sure, you can use it to make quality ice cubes, but there are so many other practical uses for this humb