While the recession is unleashing its fury, economising has become a "must-to" cultivate virtue.

If you are eating at home more of late, it would help to keep your kitchen in order. An organised kitchen stocked with your favourites is the first step to make cooking at home easier.

Here are some tips and recipes you can whip up in your kitchen: Organise your storage space by throwing out all the clutter, like half-eaten bags of chips and cookies. Stock dried pasta, canned tomatoes, rice, flour, sprouts.

Organise things so that you can see exactly what you’ve got to put a meal together in your head by just looking at it. Store provision in air-tight glass jars so everything stays fresh and you can see what you’ve got.

Keep masalas, proteins, stocks, sauces and even ready-made recipes (like idli-dosa mixes, garlic bread and rava idli) in your freezer.

Make your kitchen work for you to save the expense of ordering food or going out. This not only means shopping wisely and organising smartly, it also includes having access to the healthy, delicious recipes that we have listed out for you.

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