Oh, the shame. It’s been way too long since I’ve “tackled” our kitchen pantry and as a result, it became quite the disorganized mess. Just take a look….
This is what happens when six people use the pantry and no one organizes it for months. Terrible, I know.
And so in an effort to knock some things off of my to-do list for the week, I decided to clean to the pantry tonight. Just me and the two kids who wanted to help by FIRST opening and then throwing away the items in the pantry that were expired. At least, they were opening and throwing things almost directly into the garbage can.
Anyway, before I show you the AFTER picture of the pantry, I thought I’d share a few things that I found while cleaning:
1. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of boxes of plastic sandwich bags that I found. You can never had too many of those.
2. I found expired food from June 2010. That was right before I found expired yeast from February 2010.
3. I finally decided to take a closer look at our spices, and I found at least 6-7 that were expired…some from 2009. Yikes.
And now for the AFTER picture:
Much better.
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Wow, that was a lot of work! Expiration dates are killer. True confession: I once was surprised (and chagrined) to find an item in our pantry that our store had not carried in over a year. That’s great that the family got into the cleaning spirit, too!