Removing Pantry Clutter For More Kitchen Food Storage Hall Of Fame
Below is a list of food and pantry clutter items to consider getting rid of. In addition, there's a hall of fame where you can share your own success or get inspired by what others have accomplished.
We eat every single day, usually several times a day, so we spend a lot of time buying, storing, preparing and cleaning up food.
Getting your food storage areas in your kitchen (or wherever else in your home) uncluttered helps you find what you want or need, and also not to waste food but instead use what you've bought or grown.
There are several challenges within the 52 Week Organized Home Challenge that deal with food in our homes that I encourage you to read:
- Organize Pantry, Spices & Food Challenge
- Organizing Refrigerator & Freezer Challenge
- Healthy Meal Planning Challenge
I've also created quite a few decluttering missions that accompany these challenges, to help you get this area of your home and life more manageable.
Whether you've done these missions when I've scheduled them during the year, or any other time doesn't really matter to me. I just want to celebrate your success, so here's your chance to show off some before and after pictures when you've done one of the missions. If you're ready to share now click here to begin!
Get This Pantry & Food Decluttering Checklist + 32 Other Decluttering Checklists For Your Home
Right now you're decluttering your pantry and other food storage areas, and there's a lot of stuff to declutter in this space.
I've done the hard work of breaking down these tasks into smaller more manageable steps for you, so you don't get overwhelmed or worry you're forgetting a task, and you can go at the pace you want, whether that's fast or slow.
In addition, you can tackle these decluttering tasks in whatever order you want when you use these checklists!
Decluttering Missions For Your Food & Pantry
The decluttering missions you can do, or the items to consider getting rid of include:
- Baking supplies (make sure to for all these food related missions that you donate any food that is still good, but you won't eat)
- Canned goods
- Spices
- Pantry shelves (use this cheat sheet to know the common shelf life of pantry items)
- Fill out pantry inventory form
- Old or expired food from refrigerator (use this cheat sheet for refrigerated food storage guidelines)
- Create running leftovers list so no wasting of leftovers in the fridge from now on
- Old food from freezer (use this cheat sheet to know common freezer storage times)
- Label food in freezer with date and what it is
- Fill out freezer inventory form
- Create space for collecting kitchen compost waste
- Eat from your pantry/freezer to not waste food that has been bought before it goes bad
- Meal planning to make family meals easier
- Begin a running grocery list to jot down foods need as run low or out
- Create a grocery list template for weekly shopping
- Liquor and wine cabinet
Food & Pantry Clutter Hall Of Fame
Here are the hall of fames, declutter missions and storage and organization ideas so far.
Do you want to share your decluttering success? If so, skip down to share your success here.
 Declutter Pantry & Food Cupboards |
 Declutter Food Cupboards |
 Organizing A Pantry |
 Pantry Organizing |
 Pantry Storage Ideas |
 Canned Food Shelf Life, Safety & Storage Tips |
 Can Storage Ideas & Solutions |
 Declutter Spices |
 Ideas For Storing Spices {Part 1} |
 Organizing Your Spices {Part 2} |
 Spice Drawer Organization |
 Tea Storage Ideas {Loose & Bags} |
 Eat From Pantry & Freezer Challenge |
 Results From Eat From Freezer & Pantry Challenge |
 Donate To Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive |
 List Of Needed Food Pantry Donations |
 Declutter Refrigerator Food |
 Refrigerator Storage Chart & Guidelines |
 Fresh Fruit Storage Tips |
 Fresh Vegetable Storage Tips |
 How To Get Your Family To Eat Leftovers |
 Create A Lunch Packing Station |
 Refrigerator Organization {Part 1} |
 Organize Refrigerator {Part 2} |
 Declutter Freezer |
 Organize Freezer |
 Organizing A Chest Freezer |
 Using A Food Saver Vacuum Sealer To Organize Freezer |
 Food Storage Safety |
 Liquor Storage Ideas |
 Declutter Food Storage Containers |
 Declutter Stockpile From Couponing |
 Stockpile Organization |
 Declutter Emergency Supplies |
More Resources To Declutter Your Entire Home
Clutter rarely just accumulates in one area of your home, but instead with time can overfill your entire home.
Follow the Declutter 365 plan to get your whole house decluttered, one small step at a time, over the course of the year, and see fantastic results that you can maintain year after year!
Start with my free gift to you, a 12 month declutter calendar (a $20 value), which lists 365 different decluttering missions that will transform your whole house.
The step by step plan laid out in the calendar will guide you through the process of removing physical clutter, digital clutter and even set up foundational routines and habits for your home, to make it clutter free and organized from now on.
You can also get additional services to help you succeed with the Declutter 365 plan, including receiving daily text messages about each day's mission, planner stickers, and joining a private and exclusive Facebook group devoted to helping encourage and motivate you as you work through the daily and weekly tasks.
You can learn more about Declutter 365 products here.
Have You Gotten Rid Of Clutter In Your Pantry Or Food Storage Areas?
Have you participated in one of the Declutter Your Home In 15 Minutes A Day Missions, either while it was running for the day or when it was convenient for you?
Are you proud of your accomplishments and want to show the world what you decluttered today, and are getting out of your home?
Here's your chance to tell me about it. Pictures are highly encouraged, but you can also just write a description of what you decluttered too (note you've got to at least explain what we're seeing in the picture you upload).
You can send up to four pictures in each submission.
Get Rid Of Food & Pantry Clutter Hall Of Fame
Here are the Hall of Fame submissions that have already been submitted.
Check these out to get inspired about what others have accomplished with the power of 15 minutes a day.
How To Declutter Your Freezer
Today's mission is to declutter your freezer, or if you have more than one freezer in your home, each of your freezers.
Depending on the …
How To Declutter Pantry & Food Cupboards
Today's mission is to declutter your pantry shelves, or if you don't have a pantry, to declutter your food cupboards or whatever other shelf stable …
Liquor Storage Ideas & Solutions
Here's lots of liquor storage ideas and solutions you can use in your own home, to keep all of the supplies and essentials of your stocked home bar. …
Stamp Out Hunger & Declutter Your Pantry At The Same Time
Today I've got a bonus declutter mission for you, which is to participate in the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, which takes place nationwide in the …
How To Ensure Your Family Eat Leftovers So They Don't Go To Waste
One of the decluttering missions on the site is to throw away all the old food, including leftovers, that you've got in your fridge that you know …
How To Use A Food Saver Vacuum Sealer To Organize Your Freezer
A Food Saver Vacuum Sealer, if you aren't aware, is a machine that allows you to suck all the air out of the containers, typically bags, that you …
Can Storage Ideas & Solutions: How To Organize Canned Food
Can storage in pantries can be accomplished in lots of different ways, depending on several factors as well as your own preferences.
During …
Organizing A Chest Freezer: Ideas & Solutions
Organizing a chest freezer is not always easy to do, but if you don't do it you'll soon begin to have to dig down in the abyss for your frozen items …
Organizing Your Spices: Ideas & Solutions
Lots and lots of readers have tackled the task of organizing your spices, so many that I've had to add a second page for this hall of fame. That's great …
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