#82: How to Organize Your Fridge & Pantry Like a Pro With "Fridge Love" Author Kristen Hong
How do you reduce food waste, motivate yourself to cook healthy food at home, and keep your kitchen clean? Kristen Hong, author of Fridge Love and expert at organizing fridges and pantries, is on the show to share her best tips for making food storage easy and fun!
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Hi friends!
What if you could say goodbye to that rotten unused food in the back of the fridge for good, all while making your fridge look beautiful and motivating yourself to cook healthy meals? It’s totally possible, and the answer very well could be giving your fridge a makeover! Kristen Hong is the author of Fridge Love, and she has become an expert at making fridge and pantry organization an art form. She’s on the show today to share her best tips for overhauling your fridge!
Kristen shares how valuable it can be to have an organized fridge and pantry, and how it can be a true act of self-love. We talk all about how having such clear access to well-stored healthy foods can drastically improve your health and the way you look at preparing food. Kristen shares her best tips for organizing in various types of fridges and pantries (or lack of pantries!), and how you can get started in as little as 15 minutes per week. She also shares what it’s like to be the only vegan in the house, and how she navigates cooking different meals for her family and storing the non-vegan ingredients.
This is a must-listen if you’ve been searching for motivation to give your kitchen a makeover!
Enjoy,
♡ Michelle & Toni
P.S. This is our last episode of the season! We’d like to give a BIG thanks to all of our listeners, patreon supporters, guests, and sponsors for another amazing season of the Plant Powered People Podcast. We’re excited to return in November with some amazing new episodes!
EPISODE SHOW NOTES
- How Kristen got into organizing fridges and food saving & writing her book Fridge Love
- What is a nutritarian?
- The amazing benefits that you can expect once you start organizing your kitchen
- How setting aside 15 minutes per week to organize your fridge can change the way you eat and reduce food waste
- How you can unlock a new way of thinking about food and your fridge
- How to get started with organizing your fridge
- How to bring intention into your fridge
- How to start organizing with what you already have at home
- When to upgrade your storage containers
- The benefits of “buy nothing” groups
- What to think of and do before you get started organizing your fridge
- Tips for deep cleaning your fridge
- The importance of showcasing your produce & avoiding putting it in the crisper drawers
- Best ways to store produce for maximum shelf life
- Container recommendations for fridges and freezers
- How Kristen navigates having an omnivore fridge while being vegan
- Tips for organizing your pantry & creating one if your kitchen doesn’t have pantry
- The importance of recognizing what works best for you when organizing your kitchen
- Thank you to our sponsors Maxine’s Heavenly (use discount code PLANTS25) and Amara Organic Foods (use discount code PLANTPOWER)
RESOURCES
- Kristen’s Instagram
- Kristen’s Website
- How to Spring Clean Your Pantry
- 15 Vegan Pantry Essentials
- Bulk vs. Packaged (how much money can you actually save by shopping from bulk bins?)
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
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