If you freeze a lot of food, save those old eight ounce yogurt containers. Freeze your purees for pies, homemade ice cream, baby food, and all your garden bounty in the one-cup portions. Freeze juices and other liquids too.
Use an ice-cube tray to preserve enough pesto (1 tbsp) for one
serving of pasta in a single compartment.
Drop leftover egg whites into the compartments; one for each egg white. Once frozen, pop out the cubes and store in a plastic freezer bag.
Store leftover mashed potatoes in individual compartments. Once
frozen use them as needed to thicken strews and soups.
Storing Soup
Store into a cake-frosting container (emptied, off course). The
container in waterproof and has a secure lid, so it's perfect to take to work. Its microwaveable so you can heat the soup just remember to loosen the lid to allow the steam to escape.
To keep your microwave clean, sprinkle a little cornstarch or baking soda on greasy spots. Let it sit for a few minutes until grease is absorbed, then wipe up.
For clogged electric or drip percolators, clean by filling it with
water, add ¼ cup vinegar or baking soda and run through the usual cycle. At the end, fill the pot with clean water and run it through again. Presto!
In a dishwasher, don't use extra detergent. Too many suds actually clog up the dishwasher. Instead, sprinkle ½ cup baking soda on the bottom of the dishwasher before you run it.
Bathe your dishwasher
You can clean it without a lot of scrubbing if you have a bottle of
vinegar, pour 3 cups vinegar into bowl and place the bowl right side up on, the bottom rack of the dishwasher. Don't put any other in the machine, and run it through the wash and rinse cycles, shutting it off before the drying cycle.
Sponge Fresh
Keep your sponge fresh by storing it on a porous stand. Take a
plastic berry basket and cut down to the sides so that the basket is only one to two inches deep. Turn it over, and your sponge has a resting place that will allow air to circulate around it after every use.
A sponge will smell fresh longer if you wash it regularly. Use a
clothespin to clip the sponge to a rung on the top rack of the dishwasher.
Another way to keep a kitchen sponge fresh is to sprinkle a couple of teaspoons of baking soda on it after every use. Rinse with warm water before using.
Without a cake tester or hpick? Try an uncooked strand of
spaghetti.
Roll It Out Piecrust
The easiest way to keep a rolling pin and work area clean, roll your piecrust between two sheets of plastic. (Produce bags are perfect make sure they're clean). Once the crust is the right size, peel off the plastic.
Uses for berry baskets
As a colander to strain canned beans.
Put on the top rack of dishwasher to hold cutters, decorator tips, or baby bottle nipples.
Use to hold hard-boiled eggs in the fridge so that they won't get
mixed up with raw eggs.
Slice it easy
Use your egg slicer that's been sitting at the bottom of a kitchen
drawer to slice soft vegetables and fruits.
Grease your pans not your hands
Don't throw away those cereal box liners. Stick your hand in
vegetable shortening or butter, rub it over the sheet ort pan. When done, remove your hand by turning it inside out and throw away.
The worst part about baking potatoes is removing them from the oven. Avoid this, by placing potatoes in a muffin tin.
Brown Sugar
Keep brown sugar soft by putting a few marshmallows, an apple slice or a lemon peel in the bag before closing it.
To make your own brown sugar, use white sugar. For each cup of white sugar add Tbsp of molasses in with whatever wet ingredients. Reduce the amount of other moisture in the recipe by one Tbsp.
in the machine, and run it through the wash and rinse cycles, shutting it off before the drying cycle. 
hpick? Try an uncooked strand of 
cutters, decorator tips, or baby bottle nipples. 
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