Kitchen Organization Binder | Freezer, Pantry + Refrigerator Inventory Printables

Grab this {free} Kitchen Organizational Binder set that includes weekly and monthly meal planner templates, shopping list, freezer inventory sheets, pantry inventory and refrigerator inventory worksheets. This set is designed to help you lower your grocery spending. Though intended to work together, each sheet serves a specific purpose.

🍇 Why You’ll Love Using These Kitchen Helpers

Save Money | Using these tools will help you save money by using what you already own instead of buying more food.

Stops Duplicate Purchases | When you know what is currently in the freezer, pantry and refrigerator, you are able to pull items you already own from there to supply a recipe instead of buying a duplicate.

Helps You Eat What You Already Own | Why buy food when you already have a pantry and freezer stocked full of food? This helps you keep organized and focused on eating what you have already spent money on.

Stops You From Wasting Food | By knowing what you already have in the pantry and freezer, you can use what you have before it goes bad and expires. If you have a deep freezer, this is especially important as things get lost very quickly at the far bottom and the food expires before you realize you didn’t even use it. If you have thrown out food because of this, you know how horrible this feels.

Helps You Determine Meals | By using the inventory lists, you are able to shop your own house when creating a weekly or monthly meal plan (both sheets offered here) before creating your shopping list (offered here as well).

🍉 Benefits Of Using These Printables

1. You know what you have on hand all the time.
2. You fill all of your menus based on items you already own, even if it is just that one stray can of artichokes.
3. You save so much money shopping out of your own pantry that it eases up money for reducing debt or increasing your savings.
4. All of the excess inventory causes stress, so by using what you have will, in fact, reduce the stress you are holding.
5. Using the weekly and monthly meal planning worksheets are easy to use as a guide to filling in what your family is going to eat this week or month.

What could possibly help you? Getting organized is your first defense in getting your life in order. For me, that starts in the kitchen. Why? Because I spend so many hours cooking, cleaning, and planning for the upcoming meals. When I am able to be organized, life gets a lot easier! Plus, I know when I plan ahead, I end up saving LOADS of money, and who doesn’t like that? 

🍑 What’s Included

Weekly and Monthly Meal Plan Sheets

I love this sheet because it helps me get my entire meal plan for the week figured out. How many nights have you found you and a family member going back and forth to decide what to have for dinner? Then guess what…you end up with take-out because you don’t feel like cooking. I’ve been there and done that many times. 

Using a menu planner allows you to plan for things like leftovers, meals that you make ahead of time, and special occasions. Heck, even plan to eat out every now and then as a special treat. Grab all your favorite recipes and figure out which ones will serve you best each week. 

I find that it’s helpful to look at the grocery store sales flyers as I am planning. That way, I know upfront what is on sale. Are they selling roasts at buy-one-get-one-free?

If so, it would make sense to pick foods like beef carnitas, roast, and potatoes, or french dip sandwiches. On the other hand, if chicken is on sale, I would opt to make something like honey balsamic sheet pan chicken and veggies, or slow cooker BBQ chicken. 

I promise, once you start using the meal plan sheets, you are going to be so thankful you did. You will save time, energy, and even money. This will help you stop those last-minute splurges at the store when it’s not part of your plan.

Pantry Inventory

This is one of the most important sheets.

I don’t know how many times I would go to the store to get food and forget what I already had at home, so I bought more. It is the biggest reason I waste money at the store.

The items I already have will end up going bad before I can use them, and more often than not, I end up paying full price. Urgh!

Plus, using the inventory list for your pantry really just feels so good. It’s nice to see exactly what you have, and you can cook meals based on those ingredients. I find I waste much less food when I know what I have right there. I think you’ll find out this is a wonderful tool to help you get organized. 

Refrigerator Inventory

While very similar to the pantry inventory, the fridge is a great to keep tabs on.

Often times, food will get pushed to the back and completely forgotten about. Once again, when this happens, food (and money!) gets wasted.

Having an inventory right there that’s easy access will save you so much money. 

Keep the inventory updated on a daily basis, and it won’t seem overwhelming. It will become a habit in no time, and you’ll find that you are less stressed in the kitchen. I keep the sheet on a magnet hanging from the side of the refrigerator.

Freezer Inventory Worksheet

I find that if you make a lot of food for meal planning and prepping that sometimes things get forgotten. That’s NEVER happened to me!  Haha!  Use an inventory list for your freezer to easily see what you’ve already cooked.

I use masking tape and a sharpie to make sure everything in the freezer is labeled with the date I cooked it, the recipe and any reheating instructions.

Just think, you may end up finding meals you completely forgot about! Then you’ll have dinner ready too. 😁

Shopping List Printable

The shopping list goes hand-in-hand with the meal plan and the inventory lists. Just put everything you need for the week on that list. How much time will you save if you only had to go to the store once? Once you get completely organized, you are going to love how much easier cooking, shopping, and meal planning is.

If you want to really stack the deck in your favor, check out my post on Comparison Shopping Grocery Stores.

Kitchen Binder Coversheet and Spines

The Kitchen Binder can be created using the cover sheet and a 1” binder to keep all of your kitchen organization printables in one spot! There will be no more wondering where your pantry inventory is located, it will be in your binder!

Those loose sheets of paper that are making a mess on the refrigerator are gone! “Oh the magnet dropped, the paper slid underneath the refrigerator….” that has to happen to more people than just me. 

Keep a simple binder nearby to keep it updated as you move along using items from the pantry or freezer. 

We have multiple more sheets in the same style to add to this binder.

Kitchen Ingredient Swaps

Ingredient Conversions

Cooking Egg Substitutes. 

How to Use Freezer Inventory

Now that you printed off your sheet, it’s time to head to the freezer and start cleaning out.

Step One: Remove everything from the freezer. At this point it’s best to start looking at expired food and freezer burned food to throw in the trash.

Step Two: Take the time to clean out the freezer before putting any of the food back inside.

Step Three: Log all the food onto the inventory template and put the newest food inside towards the back or bottom as best you can. Focus your meal planning on eating the oldest food first to minimize waste.

Pro Tip: This is a great time to laminate the sheets and use dry eraser markers so you can re-use the sheet instead of re-printing the sheets.

How to Use Pantry Inventory

The same methods are generally used to form this inventory as well.

Step One: Remove everything from the pantry. Discard any expired food or old crackers that only have five left in the box.

Step Two: Give all of the racks and shelves a good cleaning before putting food back in.

Step Three: Log all of the food onto the inventory chart and place back in the pantry, putting like items together and newest foods toward the back.

🖨️ Snag Your Own

To get your own, just enter your email address and you’ll be sent a link to grab it. Easy Peasy!

Other Versions of Free Printable Kitchen Organizers

I included a previous version of the kitchen printable set for you to snag and use it you prefer. It is the same information on the worksheets, just in a different format.

• Weekly Meal Plan
• Shopping List
• Pantry Inventory
• Fridge Inventory
• Freezer Inventory

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