The pandemic hasn’t slowed down the pace of life for some people. If anything, home life might be even busier than usual. And given that it’s winter, we (and our family) are spending even more time inside the house. And that might include spending more time in the kitchen…

If you have to prepare three meals a day, that means you use your kitchen 1,095 times a year. This might sound funny, but if you go through the process a farmer goes through, you can gain some extra time for yourself. Even if it saves you just one minute each time you’re in the kitchen, you’ll have gained an extra 1,095 minutes in one year. What would you do with those bonus 1,095 minutes (18.25 hours)? (That’s like more than two days off of work!)

Farmers do a lot of repetitive tasks, so a really cool exercise we do is draw a little sketch of our work areas, then draw out the patterns of different tasks we do all the time. You can apply this same exercise to your home!

For example, when sketching out your kitchen, map out where you keep stuff, how you pack your fridge, how you move around the work space. Once you see it laid out in front of you, you’ll start to notice patterns and ways of doing things more efficiently. Here are some examples:

What other tips do you have for saving time in the kitchen? We’d love to hear about it in the comments below!

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