How does your kitchen pantry look? Do you know what is in there? Do you have expired foods in there? Let’s spend 15 minutes decluttering and organizing the kitchen pantry. I have a born-organized child who likes to do this for me. I do go through it regularly to check labels for expiration dates. I also look for items we may not be using any longer and donate them to a food pantry, if they have not expired. I check my spices, too. Sometimes, we buy a spice for a specific recipe, and then we don’t use it again. I keep most of my spices in a two basket holder. I keep the most-used spices out with my salt and pepper. I use a lot of garlic. If your pantry is very disorganized, you might want to spend a few minutes each work working on it when you are making out your grocery list. Sometimes, I pull items from the pantry as I am making the grocery list. I call this “pantry shopping.” This helps me use the assets I have on hand before they expire. Yes, I think food in the pantry and in the freezer are assets.
Weekly Home Blessing Task: Declutter Paper, Magazines, or Newspapers for 10 minutes anywhere in the house.
(Here is a link to my easy menu planning post from earlier this year.)
Routines:
- Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
- Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
- Swish and Swipe
- Start Your Laundry
- Decide on Dinner
- Check Your Calendar
- Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
School:
- Do a fun hands on science experiment today.
- Eat Lunch
- Clear off One Hot Spot
- Reboot the Laundry
- Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
- Drink Your Water
Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.)
- Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
- Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
- Put things at your launch pad
- Shine Your Sink
- Clean Off a Hot Spot
- Go to Bed at Decent Hour