That's a major drain of energy for me. I am all too familiar with that scenario. It makes it take a lot longer to prep the food, when you have to play hide and seek with your ingredients. Yeah, sure that recipe will be read in 20 minutes. It might take me that long to get all the ingredients out.I thought about putting a small box into the freezer to contain the chicken breasts and other small meat packages, but my freezer is too small for that. So what I do is stack stuff like the hamburger and take anything in boxes out, then stuff the chicken breasts around the corners of food. Of course, when I need something, I have to empty out half the freezer to find it.
Same thing with my pantry. Just trying to find the honey last night and the corn starch tonight was a major battle.