January Pantry Challenge

Every January, for seven years now, we conduct the SuttonsDaze January Pantry Challenge. It’s the perfect time of year to save money after the holidays, inventory our food stores, and rotate our pantry storage. As always, we hope you’ll join us on this adventure and that you’ll learn more about how your pantry operates.

How does the SuttonsDaze January Pantry Challenge work?

This challenge is customizable for you and your household. If you want to go all in, buy nothing for the entire month, if you want to limit your purchases to only milk, if you want to limit your purchases to fresh fruits and veggies. Make it whatever you want with the parameters that work for your household. The whole point of this exercise is to see what you have, rotate through your oldest stock, learn to cook with what you store, and save time and money all at the same time. Some folk will only purchase foods that they can catch on sale to back-fill their pantry shelves when the prices are at their best. Some folks will continue shopping with the knowledge that everything they buy will be consumed in future months, but not this month. Make it your own, but make it a challenge.

SuttonsDaze Pantry Challenge includes the fridge and freezer too! Everything gets counted here. But there is a method to the madness, oh yes there is. The Project Pantry Planner is available now on Amazon. This easy-to-use organizational system will help you inventory your pantry, all aspects of your pantry, and allow you to use that inventory to create menu plans, shop for additional items and stay on top of what you have so that there is less waste. You can get the planner here.

In case you couldn’t tell, I love the SuttonsDaze January Pantry Challenge. There is so much to learn, year after year. Each new year brings us an opportunity to fine-tune our pantry, how we stock it, how we use it, and how we change it. I hope you’ll join us for the 2024 SuttonsDaze January Pantry Challenge and jump into the fun.