Sanity saver in the kitchen: prep before baking (or cooking)

I love to bake. And I tend to get excited and easily distracted while doing so, and thus I found this tip from Complete Organizing Solutions to be right on target. Prepping everything ahead of time can really help, especially if you get interrupted by kids, the doorbell, the phone, cats... It prevents you from getting 2/3 of the way through and finding out you don't have enough of something. Or even worse, forgetting where you are in the recipe and forgetting a key ingredient (or adding something twice, not that I've ever done that...).

Yes it gets a few more bowls and such dirty, but the sanity you save far outweighs the extra work. Plus, I find that measuring everything out ahead of time makes me feel like I'm on my own baking TV show. A dash of this, a cup of that, and ta-da! Awesome.

Happy baking,
-amy