The Nice Pantry Clear Out

July 25, 2022

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Come contained in the deep, darkish corners of my pantry for the good pantry clear out as I type, toss, and set up what’s inside!

Our pantry = the place my stress hangs out

Our pantry significantly stresses me out on a regular basis! It’s in all probability the world of my home that’s the least organized at any given minute. I’ve written about it many occasions, together with the pantry clean-out problem and a put up about pantry hacks. Try our prime 10 pantry staples right here! The pantry is the place meals and group co-mingle.

Our pantry has developed over time. Once I first purchased this home it had swing-out doorways that seemed cool however had been a ache to open and shut. We took them off = so significantly better! I additionally used to have a ton of dried items in mason jars. However I’ve principally gone again to not decanting issues for simplicity’s sake.

I blame the entropy of the pantry on a couple of issues:

There are actually 4 of us digging by there each day.
I get free samples greater than the typical individual, and typically they hang around for some time.
If you’re hangry, you seize what you seize and run! There’s no time to tidy up.

If and once we renovate this home (or transfer), a walk-in pantry is excessive on the want checklist! I’ve by no means had one and have all the time used a cupboard of some variety. In my first home I saved issues within the storage and ended up with bugs within the meals – yikes! However when area is proscribed, it’s a must to assume creatively.

So on my newest clean-out day, I assumed I’d take you alongside for the journey!

The Nice Pantry Clear Out

Listed here are the earlier than photographs. Duplicates, expired gadgets, issues within the mistaken place – the works! There’s additionally simply TOO MUCH STUFFED IN.

My Pantry Clear-Out Technique

1. Take away a lot of the meals to the counters

2. Type by and toss something expired or that we’ll by no means eat

3. Put all the pieces again in areas that make sense

The Tidy Pantry After

You possibly can see that I had already labeled the cabinets, so I put these classes again as they had been. The most important change wasn’t a complete group overhaul, however simply decluttering the majority of the classes.

Koozies now have their very own shelf! They had been an enormous bother zone earlier than. I additionally did the exhausting activity of consuming the stays of three completely different nut butter jars that had been taking over area however by no means used.

Additional sauces stay on the highest shelf, and oils and vinegars are on the turntables.

The hampers home most of our child and grownup snack meals:

Fruit bars and dried fruit (raisins, mangos)
Child pouches and dry snacks like pea pods and goldfish baggage
Grownup snacks (Gratisfied bars and path combine baggage)
Child bars (Z bars, granola bars, and so on.)

I had not one however TWO baggage of expired flour. Eeek! And I used to be capable of consolidate among the oats into a brand new container and recycle the outdated.

Once more, whereas Pinterest would love for me to purchase 100 clear containers, I feel the time it takes frequently to decant all the pieces (and briefly oxidize) isn’t actually well worth the visible achieve you get. However I by no means say by no means!