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Spring Pantry Challenge One Week Check In
If you’ve been participating in the Spring Pantry Challenge, you know we just hit the 1 week mark. How has your stockpile been dwindling? Have you encountered any interesting situations or problems so far? I remember the first time I had a pantry challenge in my house to try to use up all my stockpiled food items. It was very difficult for me to get into the mindset of making substitutions to make a meal out of the ingredients I had on hand. In my everyday cooking I’m much more used to deciding what I want to cook, looking to see if I have the right ingredients, then going to…
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Today is the Start of the Spring Pantry Challenge – What to Expect and How to Get Started!
Today is the start of the Spring Pantry Challenge! If you’re joining us this time, you’ll be able to use up most of what’s in your refrigerator, freezer, pantry, and cupboards, and save on grocery costs for the next 2 weeks. Does this sound like a great plan? Then keep reading and let’s get started! When to Do a Pantry Challenge and How Long It Takes At Home Ever After, we recommend doing pantry challenges several times a year so that you can use up the stockpiled food in your pantry or kitchen cupboards. Believe me when I say that there is nothing less frugal than throwing away expired food…
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Pantry Challenge: Just Do It!
You know I recommend doing frequent grocery shopping fasts during which you don’t buy any new groceries and simply use up everything you have on hand. This is called using up the pantry or the pantry challenge, and if you haven’t done it before, it’s about time you started! We’ve vowed to use up the last of our pantry stockpile to start off the new year (which I’ll admit is pretty meager at this point) before we buy any new groceries. The exceptions to this off-limits grocery shopping are milk, baby food, baby formula, and diapers. Most of the time we only do a pantry challenge for about 2 weeks,…
