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We’ve all been there before, searching for an item in the pantry only to discover something that expired ages ago! Spring cleaning isn’t just for closets and backyards, it’s the best time to organize your pantry, and we’ve got some tips to help you formulate your plan of attack.
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This is the time of year we all feel inspired to do some deep cleaning and purging.
Whether it be storing warm clothes and jackets until the fall, clearing our backyards to start a garden, or deep cleaning our homes, spring cleaning is something we as humans tend to do without thinking.
But all too often the pantry gets overlooked and it shouldn’t!
In this episode we share our game plan for pantry cleaning and organization and talk about some of the containers and storage options we find most useful.
We also discuss some of the items you can consider stocking in your pantry and spice cabinet!
Taste testing Trader Joe’s Greek goods
Tara and I were excited to try some of these Trader Joe’s shelf-stable Greek goodies for you. The taste test included TJ’s Greek eggplant, Greek chickpeas, and grape leaves.
Follow along in the video if you’d like to see the items we’re tasting!
Resources
- Lemon Caper Linguine Recipe
- Linguine al Limone Recipe
- Chicken Pesto Pasta Salad Recipe
- Chocolate Guinness Cake Recipe
- Italian Wedding Soup Recipe
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Great subject, but as a video tour of a well organized, well stocked pantry (in a normal sized home) would be quite educational. When I lived on Long Island, I would clean out my pantry before Thanksgiving, throw away all expired items and opened packages, give away anything we had a ton of and had not eaten (like Mac n cheese boxes I bought when they were BOGO and never made)and restock up for blizzard season with canned goods, soups, etc. Now that I live in Florida, I do my annual pantry clean out in the spring in preparation for hurricane season. I do save the bags of Doritos with the crumbs on the bottom and then add those crumbs to my breadcrumbs for next time I’m breading chicken. Your discussion about cereal brought up a memory about my brother who used to make “cereal salad” when he would combine all the last remaining little bits of the cereal boxes into one bowl, pour on the milk and eat it. Just two of us at home, so I wind up throwing out a lot of opened packages of food, mostly cereal and 1/3 boxes of pasta, plus stuff I thought sounded interesting and never got around to using.