Below is a free printable pantry list to help you keep an inventory of what food you've got in stock. Using it will help you get organized, plan meals and use and eat what you've already got in your home.
This list is designed to be used in conjunction with the pantry organization challenge, but can be used even by those who don't do the challenge.
Keeping a list of what you've got in your pantry can be very helpful for several reasons.
Some of the main reasons include:
I've separated out this inventory form into some major categories of food storage items you typically find in pantries, including dry goods, canned goods, cereals and grains, pasta, rice and beans, spices, and miscellaneous.
You will note I have not placed cold storage items on this list, since that should go on your freezer inventory instead.
You can place this printable pantry inventory list in a couple of different places in your home, depending on your needs and desires. The two main places I would suggest putting it would be either in your household notebook, or on the door of your pantry, perhaps on a hanging clip board with a pen attached to make it easy to update.
Your inventory will obviously change and be in flux all the time, as you add and subtract things from your pantry. Therefore, I suggest placing this printable in a plastic page protector and writing on it with a dry erase marker, where you can change the contents and quantity easily without having to print out a new list all the time.
Or you can do what a reader, Katie, did, who sent in this photo of the printable on thr right. She explained, "My husband knows how hard I've been working on this [the Declutter 365 missions]. I've been having him print everything out at work. I sent him the pantry inventory list and he came home yesterday with it laminated and an oil pencil. What a love!"
That's a great idea, because then as the inventory increases or decreases she can change it easily! Great job Katie!
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Once you declutter one type of item in your home I bet you'll want to declutter some more. After all, decluttering gives you a great reward for even a small investment of time and energy.
The Declutter 365 system is designed to help you declutter, over the course of a year, your entire house, with just 15 minutes of decluttering each day!
Hundreds of thousands of people use this proven system to get rid of their clutter, and bring peace and calm back to their homes.
Declutter 365 works to guide you to clear the clutter without overwhelm, focusing on just one small area at a time, and without making a huge mess in the process, so you see consistent forward progress without all that "messy middle" that makes it even harder to function in your home than before you started.
In addition to building a daily decluttering habit, the Declutter 365 program, along with the accompanying 52 Week Organized Home Challenge, teaches you the skills, habits, routines, and mindsets necessary to maintain the clutter free and organized state of your home from now on, so it'll never be as messy and cluttered as it is right now, ever again.
If you haven't already, make sure to get your copy of this year's Declutter 365 annual calendar here (it's FREE!), find today's date, and do 15 minutes of decluttering on the day's mission. Then, repeat again tomorrow, and again and again. Over the course of the next year, if you do this 15 minutes per day, you'll declutter your whole house!
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!
Here are some additional printable forms about food storage that you may find helpful.
Pantry Food Storage Chart {Cheat Sheet} |
Freezer Inventory Form |
Running List Of Leftovers |
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