So I'm cleaning out my pantry.....

Green beans. Love green beans
Corn


Cake mix.

I want a pantry 

Yes, same as you although they can also be actual rooms. I don't have a cupboard like that, just normal kitchen units. The floor to ceiling storage would be lovely

Have you checked to make sure that your oils haven't gone rancid? There's nothing worse than getting a mouthful of rancid oil by accident (well, maybe getting a mouthful of sand). 

I'm not a fan of salmon. My family lived on a small barrier island when I was a kid, and our grocery stores only sold tinned salmon. --They didn't sell a lot of seafood, either because everyone bought fresh seafood from all the local fish markets. I'd never seen fresh salmon until I was an adult. (who wants salmon when all the markets and restaurants sold fish that had been swimming in the ocean that afternoon?) 

My mom did make salmon cakes from tinned salmon once in a blue moon because my dad liked them. She just mixed the fish with crackers and egg and pan fried them. We ate them with molasses and biscuits. They weren't bad, but I didn't like the little bones although my mom said they were good for me... I've never liked "fishy" tasting fish, and salmon is the most fishy to me. 

I have a little pantry like that, too. I also have a two door kitchen cabinet over my range/microwave that is easy for my 6'4" dh to reach. That's where we keep all our vinegars, oils (except the two containers of olive oil we use the most--a normal olive oil and then a lighter more neutral oil for high heat sauteing) and sauces like sriracha, soy, and worcestershire When we've moved, about 99% of our foodstuff is condiments. They turn the most basic foods into something wonderful.

My dh loves salads with oil and vinegar, so we have all sorts of vinegars. The TJ Maxx and Marshalls stores have an aisle of gourmet vinegars, oils, spices, coffees, teas, etc. and then their Homegoods stores have a larger section. That's where we get most of our balsamic, wine and champagne vinegars, gourmet vanilla extract, and spices because they buy overstocks and remainders from a lot of stores and then sell the goods for 50%-90% off. Williams-Sonoma and Sur La Table sells Nielsen-Massey extracts for $12.95-$24.95 and I always see it at TJ Maxx, etc. for $6-$9 if it's not on clearance. 

Dh loves the Fini and O brand balsamic vinegars, which we see at these stores all the time. Vinegars don't go bad, so I don't mind have a huge variety. 

I do tend to get my olive oil at Trader Joe's when I can because they do go rancid. I don't keep as much oil as I used to because we don't cook as much with them since I can't eat a lot of vegetables anymore and can't eat salad at all. 

I usually have 3 ketchup and 4 mustards in my pantry. I always forget that I have theses when I am at the store!

That's so cute and well organized.

We don't have a pantry per se. We use two of the kitchen cabinets, plus a bookshelf on the enclosed back porch wall.



I must buy jelly/jam/preserves the way you buy salmon. I have easily, eight of them, if I include the two opened in the fridge.

When I first came over to look after my parents I cleaned out their pantry. It's pretty much like yours Meg but it was stuffed to the brim with toilet rolls, kitchen towels, bottles of bleach, disinfectant, moist toilet wipes, tins of milk pudding (mostly years out of date), tinned fruit (again out of date), tea bags, biscuits.
I had so much stuff that was only fit for throwing out it was ridiculous.

Maybe you could make some of those delicious jelly (jello) salads with your salmon?

I had no idea salmon came in cans. Do you use it like you would tuna in packets?

We have tons of different varieties of flour.

As foe the salmon - Thai fish cakes

Dh is the house cook. Our pantry ends up stuffed with oils, vinegars, and Asian sauces.

I have one shelf for tea, which is my weakness. He tends to put canned beans or capers on there, which makes me a little green.

Do you get tuna in a plastic package? Like you get shredded cheese or something? We get cans. I haven't seen it any other way.

I just threw out an unopened relish jar that expired March 2014 and two open containers of the same BBQ sauce in the fridge, both expired last year. 

Our kitchen pantry is a big black hole. It is in a corner, so it holds a ton, but it all gets lost at the back. Most things I need/use are stored in baskets so I keep them pretty organized, but the kids have multiple bags of crackers open and it makes me crazy. If they don't see what they are looking for at the front of the cupboard, they go open a new bag/box.

I emptied their whole shelf last week and discovered the saddest thing of all: an unopened tub of Costco peppermint bark. The sell by date is Feb 5/16 and it looks fine, but no one is in the mood for peppermint bark at this time of year.

I have tons of chicken broth, pasta and canned tomatoes in my pantry. I just cleaned out our pantry about a month ago and had to toss a bunch of outdated food/snacks. I'm now trying to get my family in the habit of writing the expiration date on the box/label before putting it on the shelf and to put the newer items behind the older items.