I have no idea when we’ll be moving but I do know that we will be moving sometime- I am guessing in the next three to four months or so. Â I also know that I don’t want to move all of this…
When we moved to the house here on the farm, I lost a kitchen with lots of cupboard space and a BIG pantry closet. Â Here there were few cupboards and no big pantry. Â To help me out, Hubby put in these shelves at the top of the basement stairs. Â The shelves are only about 8″ deep but my oh my, they made my lack of cupboard space in the kitchen manageable. Â To be frankly honest, I am going to miss these shelves. Â (When I have them organized) I can find and see everything. Â They have saved me time after time as the cupboard space at this house is only 10′ long. Â Feeding a family of seven and running a daycare (I did that for eight years) out of this kitchen was a little hectic. Â Thankfully I had this storage.
You might remember last year about this time Hubby challenged me to use up the 18 cake mixes I had on the shelf?? Â Well I am doing good with that, only a angel food cake mix left to use up and I have plans to make these lemon bars with that.
The thing I have in great abundance now…Cans of PUMPKIN!! Â There were 10 cans…In my defense they were only 35 cents a can at the bent and dent store. Â 35 cents is cheap. Â Well today I made two pumpkin pies…that used two cans.
I made a batch of pumpkin bread too. Â I’ll share that recipe with you soon. Â It’s YUMMY.
I’m not worried about using up the pumpkin at all.  I could make my Pumpkin Roll .  Even if I made one a week for weeks on end and it would still get eaten up.
There’s also this wonderful pumpkin dessert.
I am so thankful for my full pantry but it’s time to empty some of those shelves. Â My goal is to clean the pantry down as much as I can before it’s time to move..and my goal is to buy only what I need to use up what is here. Â For example I have green beans here and soup to make green bean casserole…but no fried onions. Â So, I’ll buy the fried onions.
If I could use up one thing out of the pantry every day, without buying anything to replace it, there wouldn’t be much left to move…for now, that’s my hope. Â Anyone else need to clean the pantry?? Â Feel free to join me in my pantry challenge.
Your Hubby is quite inventive. I just did the same thing with my refrigerator. Used everything except some eggs and milk and gave it a good cleaning. Only be careful because if you have nothing to take along, your grocery bill will be a whopper. Hope all continues to go well with the progress on the house.
Cool! and the recipes are???
One of the many houses that we lived in had shelves like yours. I love having them only one can deep on one side and box deep on the other. Never had things hiding behind others. I sure wish I had those shelves again. Hubby can’t seem to find anything in the cupboards! My hubby has been out of town and I didn’t want to go do the shopping so, I don’t have much to do to straighten up our pantry!