Building a Pantry, Step 2: Shop What you have on hand

Before you leave your home to go shopping it makes sense to take some time to clean out your fridge and tidy up your food storage areas. As you do this, think critically about your list and literally cross off the things you already have. This is especially crucial if you live somewhere that multiple people buy shared food. Its also a good time to see if you have things that you have partially used that would be good to prepare soon and add anything to your list that might be needed in that instance. An example would be if you came across some random pieces of cheese and opened spinach and decided you wanted to make a frittata for the upcoming week- add eggs to the list!

Before I make my shopping list I make a plan for any extra things I have on hand. These veggies and some dried beans became my lunch for several days