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Day 2 of 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending: Organize your kitchen pantry

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Welcome to 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. I can hear your sighs of dread now, but trust me, disorganization = disaster when it comes to our grocery spending. Place the coffee by the machine. Donate any food that you probably won’t eat (and is not outdated) to a food bank.

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If the ingredient stays in my pantry for longer than two months after having done this, and it’s not crossed off of my “inventory” list, I donate it to the Food Bank. This also helps keep my grocery spending down, as I am using up ingredients that I already have instead of going to buy new ones.

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