Spring Cleaning Challenge: Pantry #1 (Main Pantry)

7:25:00 PM

The pantry I’ve been calling pantry #1 is my primary food pantry. It’s difficult to manage sometimes because we are constantly moving food in and out on a daily basis. My goals for this area are fairly simple:

Goals:

Purge all expired food items
Wipe down all surfaces (shelves, walls, etc)
Organize the remaining items in the pantry
Have no items on the floor of the pantry
Figure out a way to hang up/store the pizza peel
Sweep the floor

Here's where I started:

Here’s what I’ve accomplished:

Purge all expired food items

I am ashamed to say that there was a decent amount of that. I am going to do better about that…I can safely say that a lot of the stuff I purged dated back to my early days of stockpiling. I didn’t realize that it wasn’t necessary to buy quite so much stuff—it will go back on sale in just a few weeks!

Wipe down all surfaces (shelves, walls, etc)

I wiped down those darned wire shelves as best as I could. I’m dreaming of replacing those with some solid wood shelves. Someday, maybe…

Organize the remaining items in the pantry

Here’s the breakdown of the shelf-by shelf organization:

Have no items on the floor of the pantry

It’s done. Except for the pizza peel…

Figure out a way to hang up/store the pizza peel

Um, need my husband’s help on that, and since I asked him to move the washer and dryer, I will wait on this one

Sweep the floor

This floor was so yuck. I couldn’t clean it because of the stuff on the floor. I can’t believe that I put food (even in containers) on that floor! Talk about motivation to keep the floor cleared.

Here is the final result. I know it’s not a huge difference between before and after, but I’m happy!

Unfortunately, my neck has kept me from finishing up the kitchen by the Spring Cleaning Challenge deadline. But I'm determinted

Sometimes I link up at the following places: Friday Food at MomTrends, Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays at Simply Sugar and Gluten Free, Hooking up with House of Hepworths, The Finer Things and I Dream of Clean’s Spring Cleaning Challenge, The King's Court IV's What's Cooking Wednesdays and Organizing Junkie's Menu Planning Monday.