Combatting Kitchen Messiness

I don't seem to be able to overcome my inherent messiness, so I try to keep things as organized as possible to combat it. One thing which has been helpful is to keep my ingredients for cooking in these canisters. In the ones with baking ingredients, which are all stored in a designated baking cupboard, I also keep measuring spoons or cups, which suit the recipes I most frequently use. The sugar canister, for instance, has a 1/3 cup measure in it, because I use sugar the most frequently for making muffins, and that recipe calls for 1/3 cup. Most of my measuring cups and spoons are from estate sales, where I paid very little for them. The salt container, however, has an adjustable measuring spoon, since the amount of salt required varies so much from recipe to recipe.

I find I like to prepare food much more when I don't have to add hunting to the required activities.