 Hey guys this is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and I am here today to show you what's inside my pantry and freezer. It is really getting out of control and I've decided that I am going to do another freezer and pantry challenge. I'll share details at the end but this is my pantry. It's not a huge pantry and it's very disorganized. I mean this is a real pantry. I didn't try to make it fancy or anything so I'm just going to show you what I have in here. So what I'm hoping is that once I do the pantry challenge that I'll be able to rearrange everything because right now there's I have more food than space so it's really kind of hard to rearrange things as they are right now. So let me just jump in and show you what's in my pantry and then I'll show you what's in my freezer. So starting at the top of the pantry. So right over here where you see the corn and the goya and these jars of spaghetti sauce. So these are from Sam's Club. Now my husband picked this stuff up probably around May so two months in the pandemic if you remember you couldn't find a bunch of stuff. So when he finally found it at Sam's he went ahead and bought it because we thought you know it might be hard to find it again. So we just kind of stockpiled it at the top. So you've got some black beans up there. You've got some corn. He loves cashews so those are Howard's cashews. We've got some pinto beans. These are the jars of spaghetti sauce that I was telling you about. It's actually a three pack. So this is the first one that you see up here and the other two are behind it. So this is a three pack. You see some crackers, the green box up there. Next to it you see some individual bottles of spaghetti sauce. So there's probably like three or four up there. That's a box of graham crackers and then you'll also see Howard's giant thing of ketchup. He's really the only one that uses ketchup. Some butter crackers behind that and those are his boxes of cereal going to the second shelf. These jars are basically condiments. I'm trying to get on my tippy toes so you can see it but it's basically just a bunch of condiments, hot sauce, things like that. Worcestershire sauce. Howard loves this picapepa and he is from Jamaica. This is a product of Jamaica and he loves this sauce. It's actually pretty good. It has cane, vinegar, onion, sugar. We find it at Kroger. I think that's where we find it. So it's pretty good. These little flavor cubes, my mom bought me these and sent them to me and I've only tried one so far but they've got Mexican and Cajun, Italian. I've actually talked about these on my what's for dinner videos in Thai. You just add vegetables or meat to it and it flavors everything. Got some cake flour up there, some apple cider. Sorry bag of chips right here. Let me move that out the way. We've got some gumbo and some chicken and dumpling mixes. I really, really like this brand. I've again had this brand, not chicken and dumplings but I think I've had like shrimp bisque and other things from the Cajun Spoon and they're really, really good. We really like it a lot. So we've got this. We've got some Texas rice. We've got a couple of boxes of a rose con poillot and then this big basket next to it is a mess. I'm not going to pull it down but it's basically a bunch of seasoning packets and things like this. So you can see you've got some barbacoa right here. Got some oops chicken seasoning. I've got my sorry I told you guys it's a mess. I'm being honest. So I've got a bunch of soup mixes in this bag. A fried rice seasoning, chicken marinade. So this is what this basket is. A bunch of seasonings, marinades, things like that that I need to get through. So this shelf is pretty much all canned goods. So this shelf didn't look like this before the quarantine hit but then like I said honestly once the quarantine hit it was really hard to find stuff and then when I finally found stuff I did kind of go crazy stocking up on it because I wasn't sure when I'd buy it again. So on this shelf mostly canned goods. So we've got beans over here. We've got red beans, pinto beans, black beans, chili beans. In this row we've got green beans. This row we've got some charro beans, refried beans. We've got cream of mushrooms over here, cream of chickens, things like that. The cream ofs are over here. This is a can of what is this? Sloppy Joe Manwich mix. Got that. Random can of mushrooms. Geez let's see. Ancholada sauce. As you can see we've got some sweetened condensed milk back there. Tomato sauce, rotel. So all this stuff is mostly tomato based products. So we've got rotels, stewed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce. You name it. Got this. Hopefully this shelf will look a lot different once the challenge is over. So down here we've got some more canned goods but this is mostly fruit. So I've got canned cherries. Got some canned blueberries back there, crushed pineapple, apple pie filling. This shelf we've got chili onion crunch, condiment from Trader Joe's. We've got that. We've got a bunch of like carbonara's, tomato sauces and pastas, things like that. Alfredo sauce. Usually I use or make my own but it's nice to kind of have it on hand if you need it. I've got some blueberry preserves down there. Some chai tea with elves. Some more condiments. I really like this stuff. Very good and spicy. Sweet soy glaze. How do I love Asian food? Better than bouillon. Haven't opened it up yet. There's my chai tea mix. I think I already said that. And then these are just like bruschetta. Got some more spaghetti sauce down here that really needs to go up there with the other spaghetti sauces but we don't have space for it. But that's three more jars of spaghetti sauce. And then these are a bunch of condiments, barbecue sauces, things like that that we haven't opened yet. Did open this. This is honey. Secret sauce hasn't been opened. Got a bunch of marinades and things like that. As you can see we've got some peanut butter back there. Vinegret haven't opened that up yet. Taco sauce haven't opened that up yet. So there's a bunch of stuff that we need to open and use including as you can see different marinades and things like that. Let's see. This bottom shelf is a mess too. This is basically a bunch of pasta that we have down here. I hope that I have down here in this basket. So this is all of my pasta. Most of my pasta. And then there's also the herb stuff we make that I use for recipes. But this is all pasta. I'm not going to pull this big box out. And then over here we have like some, they'll be the skillet meals that I need to get through during this pantry challenge. Oatmeal, got some panko breadcrumbs, fried onions, got some dried beans over here. Like I said it's not really arranged well at all because there's just so much stuff. And then here is the door of the pantry. So right up here I've got some Kool-Aid mixes as you can see. I've also got some hot cocoa. And then here's some candy right up here. Right up here we've got some bags of tea, some mints, some ginger chews, things like that. This is Mother's Milk pregnancy tea when I was pregnant. Let's see. This particular little shelf here has a hodgepodge of stuff. I've got some stir fry sauces, skillet meals, all sorts of little skillet meals that I need to use. That's what all of these are. A bag of rice that I need to use. Some more skillet stuff. Some bacon bits that need to go somewhere else. Let me move that out of the way. This shelf, see I've got some velvita. I love these fresh packed things because sometimes I don't need a whole block of velvita. So you can just pull out what you need. And then as you can see I've got a bunch of dry soup mixes. So I've got my lifted onion soups. I've got some Italian dressing. What is that? Ranch dressing mix. I just threw these packages that are all similar into little ziplock bags because this is brown gravy mix in this bag. Sorry, let me scoot back. Brown gravy mix in this bag. And then different salad dressing mixes in this bag. Got some straws right here. Got some soup mix. Some more skillet mixes that I need to use. Dream whip. More of the lifted onion down here. I got these goobers for a recipe. So I'm saving those. Some peanut butter crispy candies. Dream whip. Got some cooking sprays and corn syrup down here. Got some bigger straws. Smoothie straws. All my chili mixes are down here. As you can see jalapeno verde and then two alarm chili mixes down here. Drink mix down here. And then at the bottom we've got a cooking spray and sea salts and things like that. So this is the pantry. And there's a lot of stuff. And like I said it's not arranged well at all. But hopefully once I get through some of this food I will be able to arrange it a little bit better. So because I said my pantry is small I do have a cabinet where I have some other stuff stored. So let's head over there. So this is one of the cabinets in my kitchen. And so it has two doors. So I'm going to close this one because there's really nothing over here. Mostly like small appliances Tupperware things like that. There's a little bit of stuff on this shelf but not much. Not worth talking about. And then I've got my sugar and flour and all that stuff. So I'm going to deal with this side because this is where mostly everything is. So at the very very top there I've got my pasta ronies and then I got some stovetop. As you guys know my husband loves stovetop. Second shelf right here is I have a lot of baking items. I've got some cookie mixes and waffle mixes and pie mixes things like that. This shelf I've got a hodge podge of stuff. I've got some rice in there. I've got some as you can see is Zatarans. So I've got some dinner mixes in there. I have some soup mixes. You can see the mac and cheese. So I got a bunch of that. The crusties in the back. Those are pancake mixes. And then you can see it says Caribbean style jerk. That is like a panko mix. So I haven't used that yet. And then let me see if I can get it a little bit closer. So right over here I've got brittle mix and then back there I've got some brownie mix from Trader Joe's trying to focus. This shelf again like I said as you can see I did not try to arrange anything and make it fancy. This is honestly what it looks like. It's just a mess. So this shelf is my bottom shelf and this is where I have a bunch of different corn bread mixes. I've got some this quick single package mixes. I've got some, oh that's cornbread mix back there as you can see says Texas style. That's cornbread mix. This jiffy golden cake mix is actually for a recipe. I've got some regular cake mix in there too. This I recently got from Aldi and that's a potato mix. Not potato mix sorry. What is it called? Scallop potatoes. Got that. And then this is also a recent buyer from Aldi which I have not used yet. Got different chocolate chip mixes in there. Let me move this. So right back here there's a bunch of rice mix and again this is because of the quarantine. So I could not find rice errone or generic knockoffs of rice errone for till about like June honestly and when I found it I stocked up. So that is beef and chicken rice mix in there. There's a little green packet you can see it and that is broccoli. So that's what's back there. I got a couple of tubs of the icing and then some cupcake holders. Put this back. This is sweet potato muffin mix. This is a sweet cream pancake mix and chocolate chip mix. What is this? Brownie mix. Thin crust pizza mix. Haven't used that yet. I got two of those. Does anybody else do that when you find something you think you're like you just buy two? I do that but unfortunately sometimes I don't like it and then that's a problem. And then I have just some Kool-Aid back here which I have not made. Lemon lime and what is this? Lemonade. Great. I think there's a pineapple one too back there somewhere. So that's it. This is the other cabinet in my pantry that I am going to tackle during the pantry and freezer challenge. All right so the next thing I want to show you is our inside freezer. So this is our inside freezer and it will start beeping once the door is standing open for a while. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about it so I hope it's not too bothersome but we'll start up here. Here is the first shelf. Top shelf I should say. So back there there are two packages of corn tortillas and then let me try to move this out of the way. Not make a mess. Two packages of corn tortillas. This is Harrison's little teething thing. These are some fruit pops right here and then under here are some fruit pops as well. And then let's see back there you can see it is just a single thing of french bread that we haven't made yet. And then this is see strawberry dark chocolate. What is that? Dark chocolate strawberry halves and then those might be expired. I think those need to go. Yeah those expired a long time ago. That's how long they've been in there. We haven't touched them. These are bonbons from Trader Joe's. We love these things. Cheesecake cones from Trader Joe's. Howard loves these things. Let me put this back. This stuff up here was on the top shelf trying to put it back. So that's actually whipped topping. This is feta cheese that I froze and this is gravy that I bought at Thanksgiving. I bought two of them and we didn't use both of them so I stuck one in the freezer. Right down here second shelf we've got these potato wedges that Howard loves. I don't care for them at all. I'll move these so I can show you what else is back here. I bought these sweet potato bites from Aldi for Harrison and he refuses to eat them. And then what else? We've got some mini quiche from Trader Joe's right here and there's the alarm. And then I've got let me try to move this with one hand while I'm filming. So we've got two boxes of mini egg rolls right underneath the mini egg rolls. Our potato fritters from Ikea and then there is a pepperoni pizza mac and cheese bowl right over here from Trader Joe's. We've got mini mushroom like little really called they're like little flaky puff pastry excuse me. And then we've got some frozen shrimp. We've got some pork shumai and then we've got pulled the corn appetizers from Trader Joe's and then right here is just a frozen entree from Tom Thun. And then this right in front on the same shelf we've got these buffalo style chicken poppers from Trader Joe's. Howard and I recently tried these and we didn't care for them at all. I mean we're going to finish them but they're not that great. And then I got a box of french bread pizzas from Aldi. I got the extra cheese and the deluxe and we haven't tried them yet. But I heard these were good and much better than stoffers. Howard and I don't really care for stoffers but I heard these were excellent. So bottom to give them a try for lunches during the week since Howard's working from home right now. And then I got these mini chicken corn dogs from Aldi as well for lunches. We haven't tried them yet. So this next shelf so these are the fries that were up here. So this next shelf we've got some bacon from where's this from Aldi. And then we've got some pre-cooked bacon right over here that we use from Costco. And then we got those two big three pound packages of thick cut bacon that I picked up on sale from Tom Thumb. So that's what that is. I got two packages of the bulgogi fried rice from Trader Joe's. And then right back there are skillet mills. So sorry you guys. Not as easy as I thought it would be to film this. So I've got a couple of bags of dumplings back there and then I have a skillet mill. Let's see if I can grab it. You can see it. We've got a skillet mill from Aldi. It's a rice and beef Asian skillet mill. We've got this one right here. Crispy garlic chicken noodles that Howard and I really like. I got one package of those. Down here this is the last shelf. It's a bunch of meat in one pie crust. I have a deep dish pie crust in here. And then I've got some chicken strips right here. And then I've got some three pepper blends. I got a bag here and a bag there. Got a random bag of cheese. Some pork in that container back there. Spaghetti sauce that I need to use. There's also some beef strips to my right that I need to use. And then I don't know what this is. Oh Italian sausage that needs to be used. So here is the door. So in the door I've got some mozzarella cheese. Got some chimichangas. Got some Swiss cheese. I freeze my cheese if you didn't know. I've got some more cheese down here. I freeze my nuts because it keeps them fresh. So I've got some pecans here. Some more cheese right there. These are habanero peppers from Howard's mom's garden. She brought them when she came to visit us to meet Harrison. And then we've got some almonds right there in this bag. And then right here I have some Italian sausage that I cooked. And then get tired. So right in here I've got some pork that I need to use. Basically it's just meat in here. I've got some pepperoni and bacon there. That's for the other ones that I found in the pantry should be. And salt pork. Pork. Some more pork. That's all pretty much in there. Got these. Chichangas that's fully cooked. Grilled strips. And then the last drawer I'm not going to pull everything out is veggies. This is where I have green beans. I have broccoli, frozen peppers, beans like that. So this is what's in the inside freezer. And now we're going to go outside to the freezer in the garage. So here is our garage freezer. It's an upright. I do not know the size of it. But I did want to tell you before I open the door that once you have the door open for a while, there's an alarm that goes off and it beeps constantly. There's nothing I can do about it unfortunately. But I just wanted to forewarn you. So again, this freezer is not organized at all. Real life working freezer. This is the stuff I'm trying to work through. So over here is a bunch of chicken that I have in little individual bags. So I've tried to label them like boneless, skinless thighs 1.71 pounds. So as you can see, there's a basket right here with a bunch of chicken in it. And then there's chicken outside. Some of these are chicken pieces with bones. So I'm going through this. I'm going to try to get through this kind of stuff. This is from Trader Joe's scallion pancakes. And then in the back, back there is also some more Trader Joe stuff. It is a noodle bowl that I bought, about two of them. Because Howard and I really like that kind of stuff. And we try to move some stuff so I can kind of show you. We did not like it at all. There it is. The fubbo did not like it not good at all. Some dumplings. I got those at Howard. And then I've got some mini chicken tacos right there for our lunches. And underneath, let me try to move this. Underneath the mini tacos, I've got mini corn dogs. Again, that's for lunch. Something I can throw in the air fryer. A couple of packages or boxes of chicken spring rolls from Trader Joe's to get through. And then just a tub of whipped topping. Let me put these back. And what I'm hoping is, is that once some of this stuff gets gone, I can organize it a little bit better because I feel like if I try to do anything now, it's just rearranging stuff into more chaos. So here's a drawer right here that I really like in here. And I can't get it all the way open, but there's, this is just sausage. So these kind of sausages, little smokies, as you can see, I've also got some hot dogs in there as well. So that's all. And there's the alarm. That's all that is in this drawer is sausage, hot dogs, little smokies. That's it. And then down here, you can see we've got a bunch of pie crust and they are, as you can see, they expired February 20th, but they've been in the freezer the whole time. So I'm fine using those. So we've got pie crust. We've got some scallopini potatoes from Trader Joe's as well. We've got some mandu. We love mandu. And then we have a bunch of Asian frozen, like skillet dinner things like this. So we have this one, sesame chicken. We've got, I think that's a Hunan chicken. And then we've got a teriyaki chicken down there as well. Some more mandu. We love Asian food. And then that meat that's right there is actually a chuck roast. I just have one chuck roast down there. And then this shelf, again, it's a mess. This is a mandu that I just moved from the other shelf. But then we have bags of frozen hash browns, shredded potatoes. What is this? Chicken breast. As you can see, we've got some wings back there as well. And here. And then as you can see, there's some more chicken, more mandu right there, more chicken up there. That in foil is a hand bone that Howard's going to use. That is sweet corn that I took out of the big bag. Some more sweet corn right here. This right here is a box of cinnamon rolls that when I was working, I bought it from a co-worker's child as a fundraiser that I need to make. So that's just a big box of cinnamon rolls taking up space. Here is some flatbread from Aldi that I froze. And then right under the flatbread right here, I'm not going to pull it out. Five loaves of bread dough, frozen bread dough. And then this bottom shelf right here is mostly pizzas. So I've got a bunch of pizza down there. And then also, as you can see, I have a couple of taco shells. You guys know how much I love those things. Taco salad shells. Piece of butter. I mean a piece of butter, a box of butter that's out of place. I'll show you where it's supposed to go. And then some puff pastry sheets down there as well. A pie that I found on sale. And then we've got more chicken. This is also chicken. Beats the heated chips that I found on sale. And then this is more meat, frozen meat. So let me show you the door. The door is a mess. So we've got a bunch of frozen cookie dough that I buy when I find it on sale. And then I just don't use it for whatever reason. So I've got some sugar cookie dough, some mini chocolate chips dough. Howard likes oatmeal raisins. And then a couple of things of these mini chocolate chips. I got this from IKEA. I didn't use it. And it's already after Christmas, but I'm still going to make it. It is gingerbread dough. And then a couple of tubes of peanut butter cookie dough. You can see I got it at 50% off. So butter is supposed to go up here, but I just don't have space for butter. And then the rest of this, almost all of it, I guess, is meat. So I've got ground beef, ground chicken. Now these little tubes of the ground beef are actually from Costco and they come in a five pack. So I've stocked up on that. Got some chorizo. Got some phyllo dough. I got a couple more butters down there. Got my favorite Jimmy Dean sausage, some Italian sausage and some more breakfast sausage. So this butter is actually supposed to go up here. I just don't have space for it. So this is everything that is in the outdoor freezer. I almost forgot to show you guys this drawer. So in here I have a bunch of meat mostly stuffed in here. Got some popcorn chicken. Got some boneless skinless chicken gingerbread. Got some ground turkey down there. Patties I should say. And then I've got some more frozen corn. Got some thin sliced chicken breast. And some more chicken that I bagged up and froze. And then that's boneless skinless chicken breast down there at the very bottom in the green packaging. And then so sorry about the noise. Got some more breaded chicken patties down there. Got some chicken lo mein from Aldi. And then my lightly breaded buffalo tender. That is it. I think I already said chicken patties. I think I've got two packages of chicken patties down there. No one. Sorry one package of chicken patties. So that is actually no I do have two bags of chicken patties. Gee is. All right so that is everything in the outside freezer. So you guys saw the state of my pantry and freezer. You saw how much food I have in there which brings me to the pantry challenge that I am going to be doing. So I am going to have a 2021 pantry challenge. If you guys want to join in with me that'd be great. You know that you're not in it alone. But for me what I'm going to do beginning January the fourth which is a Monday is I'm only going to buy essentials from the grocery store. And that means things like bread, eggs, butter, milk and also fresh produce. I wasn't going to include fresh produce. But I remember when the quarantine started and I was in the house for three weeks straight didn't leave didn't go to the grocery store. I really missed fresh produce. So I am going to allow that for my pantry challenge. Another thing that I want to do for this pantry challenge is really shop my pantry fridge and freezer for meals. I'm going to eat the food that I have hidden in my pantry and freezer foods that Howard and I weren't a big fan of. We're just going to eat them food that I've been avoiding. We're just going to eat them. I'm going to try new recipes using what I have on hand. So if you guys want to join in the pantry challenge with me, I'd love to have you for my what's for dinner videos. Of course, I'm going to be using you know what I have. If you guys want to include comments on things that you've used up, I'd love to hear from you. 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