Healthy Kitchen Hacks is a bi-weekly series on Teaspoon of Spice. We share fellow bloggers’ and our own favorite cooking shortcuts, kitchen tricks and “aha” ideas for making healthy meals and healthy living a snap.

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If you are like me, you’ll find any excuse not to clean.

Don’t get me wrong – I like things to be clean, neat and orderly but I selfishly don’t want to spend more than 10 minutes hours doing it. (I guess some people feel the same way about cooking while I could spend hours in the kitchen.)

But I can’t complain too much as one of my top marriage perks is that the husband does all the dishes and vacuums regularly.

Still, these spring cleaning tricks are right up my alley – simple cleaning hacks to keeping a healthy kitchen (though you wouldn’t find me doing all of these in the same day – ha.)

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