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Before and After Pantry Clean Out Pictures + Pantry Challenge

October 25, 2012 By: Briana Carter6 Comments

Pantry clean out and challenge time. Not only was our pantry out.of.control as you can see from the before pictures, we were buying food items that we already had in our pantry. This was very annoying and not money saving.  I keep wishing for a bigger pantry but since that’s not going to happen nor would it probably help, I need to get control over the pantry I do have. It’s still not perfect but that’s where the pantry food challenge is going to come in!

I spent almost an entire day removing everything from our pantry. I combined some boxed items into stackable OXO food organizers, which also are much more eye appealing too. I also put in the Organize It Can Rack that I purchased from Zulily a few weeks ago, which is no longer available. There is a great deal on Amazon right now on these pantry can racks. Mine hang over the shelf just a bit but so far it’s working nice. If you don’t have multiples of the same canned item, you probably don’t want to use something like this but for canned tomatoes, veggies, fruits, cream soups, and such this is perfect as we have multiples of all of these items.

There was a few items found that are perfect for donation. For example, crunchy peanut butter that I paid less than $0.75 for, who knew that the people in my household absolutely hate crunchy peanut butter. Not me. So that is being donated. There was a bottle of Welch’s sparkling juice that someone opened, drank half of the bottle, and then put back into the pantry.  Huh? Yeah, ruined – trashed. Other than that, just the normal wrappers, crumbs, etc.

My family’s reaction was excited “we can walk in our pantry now,” “if there is a tornado, we can hide in the pantry,” “wow.” Everyone was pretty excited to see a organized and clean pantry. Now let’s keep it that way guys!

Now to the challenge….

I’m going to try really hard to cook from our pantry for the next 2-3 weeks to clean it out a bit. We will still need to buy some of the staple items like bread, milk, fresh fruits and veggies. However, there is so much that we need to use in our pantry that I’m making it my mission to start using it up before the holidays. This is not only money saving but it will help reduce some of the clutter we have in our kitchen!

We have so much pasta, beans, and canned tomatoes so this may get really interesting!

Tonight’s dinner…..

  • White Rice (pantry) w/leftover vegetables from the refrigerator
  • Cut up Chicken – pan fried in canola oil plain or with fish batter from the pantry (from a fishing trip my husband went on years ago.)
  • Morningstar ‘Chicken” for us vegetarians
  • Pampered Chef Beer Bread was the appetizer for the kids. Thank goodness I made this earlier in the day because our youngest was starving and the bread was a nice touch to keep her settled down.

Then later, we made confetti cake mix in ice cream cones…topped with icing found in the pantry. I’ll share those pictures later as they were so pretty they deserve their own post.

I’ll be sharing more of our pantry challenge photos, recipes, and ideas in the coming weeks! Stay tuned….

 

Tagged With: cooking, Organizing, Pantry Challenge

Comments

  1. Donna says

    October 25, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    It looks wonderful, Briana!! You are inspiring!!

    I’m doing a purge through my whole house this week while I’m on vacation. It feels so good to get things organized. It also feels good to donate good items to Goodwill. I had a lot of clothes that I’ve been holding on to, and they are gone!! Pantry and frig are on tomorrow’s list!

    Reply
    • Briana Carter says

      October 25, 2012 at 9:43 pm

      I need to tackle some other rooms too! I worked on the kid’s clothes on Sunday but there is still so much more that can be purged! I agree…it feels good to donate and get the clutter out of your own house!

      Reply
  2. Cindy says

    October 25, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    We just moved. When my husband packed all the pantry food he was shocked! We are going to be eating out of our pantrry too! He still hasnt found the bath and body works stash tough! :)

    Reply
    • Briana Carter says

      October 25, 2012 at 4:58 pm

      That is too funny Cindy! :) Yeah, I can’t imagine moving with a stockpile!

      Reply
  3. Gwynn says

    October 25, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    Good for you Briana! Like you I always buy canned foods that I already have enough of because I forget to look before I am at the store or I am just not sure if I have it. Over the last couple of months I have been trying to use up what I already have, and finally it is dwindling. I actually had to buy more beans and tomatoes because I was out. Good luck to you!

    Reply
    • Briana Carter says

      October 25, 2012 at 3:42 pm

      Thanks! :) It’s a struggle especially when you find so many great deals or just trying to find the time to take inventory when you do finally have time to shop! I’m sure everyone can relate to that time crunch! :)

      Reply

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