Here at The Organized Cook we spend A LOT of time in the kitchen, creating, testing, filming, photographing, and of course cooking. That is a lot of time we spend standing up on the hard kitchen tile. At the end of some days, our legs just ache! That is why we were thrilled to hear from the wonderful people at WellnessMats® with a solution to our problem. We were so happy to test out the WellnessMats® that we asked if we could pass one onto one lucky reader!
Enter to win a 3×2 WellnessMat (of your choice!). The latest in anti-fatigue mat technology, WellnessMats provide maximum comfort, safety, and well-being while you stand, wherever you stand. Made of one-piece Advanced Polyurethane Technology (APT) WellnessMats sleek, elegant & decorative design will never curl, delaminate nor stain or puncture! WellnessMats are perfect for the kitchen, vanity, garage, and laundry. Ergonomically engineered and medically proven to provide you (and your feet, knees & back) unsurpassed comfort, safety, relief and well-being. Cook, clean & create in comfort. 7-year warranty, Made in USA.
Toni and Barb both picked out this WellnessMat to test in our kitchen. Which will you choose?
We also LOVE how fun you can make these! They have the cutest covers now to spice up any kitchen decor.
Here is the how you can enter to win!
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With a complicated dish standing the entire time tends to hurt my back and hips. Usually by the time the meal is done I am ready to just lay down to get the pain in my hips to go away.
standing at the sink to wash dishes
My biggest pain is from standing for long periods while cooking and ending up with a backache by the time I’m finished.
i just hate standing while cooking after standing all day at work!
standing doing the dishes that is awful awful i tell you
doing dishes and shopping veggies – aching feet, knees, back
not having any throw rugs in the kitchen, cause puppy piddles on them. That’s why i would love to win this. Wipe down!
Mine is doing dishes standing with my back aching
Too much standing and washing pots!
fighting the never ending grease
DIshes definitely
The biggest pain for me is standing and washing and drying dishes.
doing anything my back aches my feet ache i just falling apart
getting crumbies and dust in my toes in the morning cause i dont have a mat!
my feet start to hurt!
I have severe arthritis in my back and cannot stand for long periods of time without excruciating pain. I hate it when I am in the middle of making something and the pain starts. It does take away from the joy of cooking.
Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity. ~Pauline
washing dishing.
My biggest pain is trying to cook or wash dishes with my back aching. I dont know if I stand wrong or what but it happens every time!
I follow organized cook on pinterest
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Cleaning the inside of the refrigerator!
SMALL KITCHEN AND A LOT OF STANDING COOKING AND DOING CLEANUP
Not enough counter space!
not having enough counter space and storage
My biggest pain is not having enough room in the kitchen.
Following you on Pinterest
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i would love to win this
I have concrete floors so standing for any length of time makes my knees ache. But with a family full of food restrictions, cooking is mandatory and nothing is instant.
Not enough counter space and the dreaded Side-by-side refrigerator…never again!
Endless work
My feet hurt from standing all day. I feel like i’m always cooking cleaning
biggest pain is the incredibly hard stone floor, especially in the summer when I stand in the kitchen for hours on end canning
Prepping food for meals- dicing, peeling, chopping is always the biggest pain because I just stand there and it’s tedious.
In our bottom cupboard,the owners put ip up at an angle,which is a pain because we have to be on all 4 and stick our head and 1 hand to see inside and get something from there,so we just use it to store things we don’t use often so we would not have to do this on a daily basis since it is a pain!
i dread to open the cupboard full of pots and pants because they all seem to crumble when I open the door! And I have to put them back without losing my cool!lol
We have a very small kitchen and little counter space, but as soon as I am trying to cook in there, all the kids swarm in there , leaving me no space or concentration to cook!lol
back
Definitely standing too long on that hard floor. It’s linoleum directly over concrete. Yikes!
the dishes.lol
Standing for a long time since I broke my foot a year ago.
It would defiantly be standing at the sink doing dishes.
My biggest pain in the kitchen is standing forever because of the bulging discs in my neck and back.. and the mess…OH, the mess!
Cleaning up after meal prep (standing/bending) and of course never ever enough counter/prep space!
Doing dishes.
I HAVE to wear shoes while I cook because I hate when crumbs or something touch my feet, and on the weekends I tend to spend at least 5 hours at a time prepping food for the week so that kills my feet and ankles!
Standing while prepping food and cleaning dishes.
standing too long, makes feel dizzy
Thank you for hosting this giveaway
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standing by the island chopping and prepping veggies and meats for dinner. I love to cook and use fresh ingredients.
My biggest pain occurs in my back from standing too long in the kitchen preparing food or cleaning up
Mopping the floor and doing the dishes, I have Fibromyalgia and it’s really difficult to stand & bend without hurting.
thanks for the giveaway
crumbs and stickiness on the counter….eeewww…..
my kids finger prints all over everything
My biggest pain is the darn tooting cold floors in the winter!
My biggest pain is standing still for so long, chopping all the vegetables and preparing the meal. My feet and legs start hurting.
Doing the dishes.
I agree ^endless work
My biggest pain in the kitchen is washing dishes. I seem to forever be standing at the kitchen sink.
I have Fibromyalgia and live in a basement apartment with concrete floors. In the last year my back has been really bothering me when I’m on my feet for any length of time – even wearing shoes makes it difficult but doable to do dishes. I’ve learned to take it in 5 minute increments when washing dishes, food prep, etc. Things aren’t as clean as I would like it to be due to the level of pain I’m in either.
Thanks for the giveaway! Tina
My biggest pain in the kitchen, like so many others, is standing to wash the dishes. I am amazed at how many dishes that my husband and I use on a daily basis.
Standing by the sink washing dishes is terribly painful for me! By the time I am finished my back and legs ache for hours.
I hate doing the dishes
standing and washing dishes
I like to cook, but I have a bad back, and it hurts to stand to cook.
My biggest pain is standing, period – whether it’s washing dishes or cooking at the stove. :(
doing dishes
Getting all the grease off the stove and counter after cooking
My biggest pain is keeping the floor clean
Having my washer and dryer in there! I hate it!
Standing while doing dishes!
I have lower back pain, so kitchen duty can be very painful for me. This would be a dream come true!
My biggest pain is this giant ridiculously heavy pan that my husband HAS to use every time he cooks. I swear I’m going to strain a muscle trying to wash that thing.
with 4 small boys, I spend a LOT of time in the kitchen. Come the end of the day and my legs are aching me! This mat sounds like a great idea!
My biggest pain in the kitchen is washing dishes
Dishes!
My biggest pain is all of the chopping & dicing! I’m not so great with a knife so those tasks take me twice as long as they should!
my linoleum floor has wholes in it, so the gross floor.
Standing at the sink washing dishes, since I am apparently the only person in my house that knows how. :)
Doing the dishes…. takes forever
the dishes they never seem to go away
Until recently, we had ridiculously low counters – standing at them was definitely a pain!
Doing the dishes for sure!!!
I have very bad legs that are painfull if I stand to long.Even though I have a dishwasher I still have to stand to long.
Standing and leaning over the sink washing dishes.
A small kitchen! :)
My children not picking up after themselves.
My biggest pain is standing at the sink to wash the dishes, and we have a lot of them :) Our floor is ceramic tile and so it’s very hard to stand on.
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My biggest pain in the kitchen is trying to find what I want in the freezer without taking everything out.
Doing dishes is my biggest pain… gross dishes, dry hands, standing for that long… I just hate doing that job! :)
My biggest pain is a tiny, tiny refrigerator.
Standing at the sink to do dishes.
My biggest pain is that my kitchen is too small and not enough cupboard space.
space! I need more space
As much as I hate washing dishes and the floor – it still has to be that there NEVER seems to be enough counter OR reachable/accessible storage space!
My biggest pain in the kitchen is bending over to clean out the bottom rack of the dishwasher.
Doing dishes!
I can’t complain, since we just got to build the house of our dreams. The biggest pain is either the fact that certain people (aka: husbands) touch things with dirty hands while they cook. Drives. Me. Nuts. The other thing is I don’t have my island yet because I decided to DIY it.
The physical pain is probably standing on a hardwood floor while cooking and cleaning. One of these mats would be a fantastic thing for my foot/hips/knees/back.
stooping over the sink to wash dishes
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not enough storage space for spices, etc.
Definitely doing the dishes!! Even with a dishwasher!
My back always bothers me a lot!
It is a serious toss up between cooking and doing dishes. Both will kill my back, but I think the standing at the stove takes the prize!
emptying the dishwasher and refilling it…a vicious, neverending cycle!
doin the dishes
Standing when cooking
My biggest pain is constantly finding things on the floor! Somebody spills juice, or drops yogurt, or crumbs from a bag of chips, maybe a few cocoa Krispies! It never ends! I’m always on my hands and knees scrubbing something off of the floor!
coriwestphal at msn dot com
Standing at the counter preparing a meal and washing dishes are the two things that kill my wife’s feet. Would love to win one for her.
Cleaning my oven ~ even though it claims to be a self-cleaning oven it still takes some work to get it as clean as I like it to be.
My biggest pain in the kitchen is standing for any length of time. I have severe neurogenic back pain that is caused by multiple sclerosis.
Doing the dishes
trying to cook while carrying my toddler on one hip :)
I have a touch of arthritis in one hip. It will start to ache if I gave a large amount of dishes to wash. Nothing helps when this happens. Maybe this mat would prevent it.
standing to watch dishes or standing to load and unload the dishwasher
kport207 at gmail dot com
crumbs
i hate bending over to open the lower drawers
dishes and cooking for long periods of time
My job has me on my feet for 12 hrs a day on a concrete floor, then I come home and cook and eat my dinner standing up, because if I sit down I won’t get back up. My poor lets could sure use these mats. Thanks for a great giveaway.
karenb834atyahoo.com
yep gotta go with dishes! standing over the sink, especially when you’re tall like me, causes you to hunch over the sink and it hurts!
Being in the kitchen! I don’t like to cook!
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Stepping over my dog, who always lays wherever I need to be in the kitchen!
My biggest pain in the kitchen is not enough cabinet space!
Keeping it clean!!!!!
Standing up to do dishes. I hate doing dishes.
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Standing at the sink doing dishes
Oh, my aching back, lol!
That is seriously my biggest pain in the kitchen! We have a beautiful terracotta tile floor; beautiful but not easy to stand on for very long=)
Ugh the dishes! I’ll cook all day all night, just no dishes please lol
standing at the stove
vmkids3 at msn dot com
my problem is doing dishes back aches something awful
If I stand at the sink or counter too long, my back hurts!
No top cupboard which leads to a lot of bending over= pain in the back
My husband and I love to cook together. Our only problem is our tiny kitchen.
If there’s no room on the counters, I get irritated
Keeping up with the dishes, even with a dishwasher!
demureprincess7(at)gmail(dot)com
Having enough energy to finish the dishes afterwards!
Washing dishes.
Doing dishes and sweeping!
Standing (hovering) over the stove when something needs constant stirring or monitoring. Super boring!
hstorm799{at}gmail{dot}com
washing dishes is the biggest pain
Cleaning the stove, small surface to work on.
Dishes! Even though we have a dishwasher I hate loading/unloading it.
Lack of room!
my back kills me when i was dishes
Doing dishes- ugh. Love to play in the kitchen, hate to clean up.
Having to stand and wash dishes with no dishwasher
the kitchen table is my biggest pain…. there is always stuff on it.
Besides standing and getting achy feet my biggest problem is smallish counters and an electric stove. One day I want gas!
My back starts to hurt the most from standing while doing dishes or prepping for dinner.
My biggest pain in the kitchen is when im doing dishes I get neck aches
no counter space
My biggest pain is prep. I hate prep. Oh, and shopping for the food AND then realizing that I still need something else to fulfill my recipe …
Washing dishes is my biggest pain!
Doing the dishes
mightynaynay(at)cs.com
doing dishes
trying to cook dinner I have ruptured discs and a lot of back pain and standing for a long time is painful
My biggest pain is scrubbingt he stove
lovefool827 (at) yahoo (dotcom)
I do not standing to do cleanup in the kitchen.
Doing dishes, it kills my back.
doing dishes.
Standing and doing tons of dishes!
My biggest pain is keeping the counter space clean so I can cook. :)
Baking pies for Thanksgiving – standing for hours and hours on end hurts!
standing at the sink washing dishes
My biggest pain is getting cramps in my feet when I stand at the sink too long!
too much time spent on my feet in the kitchen
Keeping the counters clean. They tend to accumulate random stuff, as well as crumbs and dirty dishes. It seems like right after I’ve filled up the dishwasher and wiped down the counters, more crumbs appear.
I follow you on Pinterest (Hislove Endures)
My biggest pain is the never-ending crumbs on the kitchen floor. We have dark floors and you can see everything.
My biggest pain is my back. I have wonderful wooden floors, but being on them preparing a family meal can really be treacherous on my back!
My feet and back are always hurting while I’m cleaning dishes in the sink!
Following on pinterest! – fashfrugality
I don’t have a dishwasher, so it would have to be doing the dishes. Thanks for this contest.
Dishes! Ugh! Endless!
Dishes
My back is the biggest pain while washing dishes.
peeling potatoes, we eat them 2 times a day!