Quinn diet: Spring Cleaning Tips for Your Kitchen

Yay! Spring is here. And while there are several theories about the "spring cleaning" came, I like the biological explanation of why we need to update and organize our lives at this time of year. According to How Stuff Works, the limited sunlight that we make in the winter, our brain more melatonin, a hormone that helps us sleep are exposed in manufacturing. In days longer, better spring our melatonin induces stupor monitored and we feel clean up.

Since it is a nutritional column, we start in the kitchen. Learn some tips that people a taste of the magazine at home, www.tasteofhome.com .

Check the expiration date on the bottle and preserves. Although doses are still okay to use after that date should be discarded if they show signs of damage or leaks. For items near your due date, they are using. This includes a package medium used flour, powdered milk or bottled sauces.

Throw baking soda, even if it has passed the expiration date. Buy a new cook and the old box to clean the sink or refrigerator. Fresh drainage with 1 or 2 tablespoons of baking soda and vinegar in a quarter cup. Baking soda is also good to help scrub pots burnt food. Sprinkle the blackened portions, cover with water and simmer on the stove for a few minutes before scrubbing.

Package pasta, cereals, beans and rice in sealed food containers. In addition to making you feel super-organized storage container for maintaining the freshness of foods.

Sniff and oil mixtures age, especially when their "best before" pass data. Rancid oils can feel like crayons or old mother, some experts say. As always, when in doubt, throw it away.

Move the nuts in the freezer as the weather gets warmer. This prevents them fresh longer and allows you to everything you need for cooking or eating. Toasted walnuts can also freeze.

If you buy a new way, write the date on the bottom. Believe it or not, experts say, we should spices to have no more than 18 months if we want to preserve the flavor and freshness.

Get the freezer glass. Mix everything with ice crystals or frostbite. Then an inventory of what remains before refilling. Tip: It is you set more a good time to eat.

Follow first in, first out rule FIFO. In your pantry and refrigerator, new acquisitions grocery behind older; and for the first time use older articles.

What to do with food reviews and ends that need to be used in the near future to do? Insert income programs online for a list of recipes that use these foods.

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(Barbara Quinn is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. An e-mail to their bquinn@chomp.org .)

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