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Stocking Your New Kitchen

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Optional:

  • Nutcracker
  • Potato masher
  • Ladle
  • Pepper grinder
  • Juicer
  • Sifter
  • Grater
  • Strainer
  • Skewers
  • Custard cups/loaf pans/pie pans
  • Coffee pot/Tea kettle
  • Bottle opener/ corkscrew
  • Griddle
  • Steamer
  • Double boiler

You may be anxious to get started cooking but wait, you need to stock your pantry as well! Head over to the grocery store and pick up these essentials, substitute based on your dietary preferences:

  • Herb and spice rack with a variety of spices
  • Baking supplies: flour, white and brown sugar, baking powder or soda, cornstarch and vanilla extract
  • Condiments: ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise or miracle whip, jam, pickles and olives
  • Cream of tartar
  • Dry yeast
  • Dry red and white wine
  • Pasta, rice and/or potatoes
  • Canned beans and vegetables
  • Spaghetti sauce and salsa
  • Cake mixes
  • Canned fish (tuna and salmon)
  • Raisins
  • Gelatin mix
  • Vinegar (white and cider)
  • Sauce mix packets: gravy, guacamole, taco
  • Beef, chicken and/or vegetable broth
  • Non-dairy creamer
  • Sugar substitute
  • Food flavoring and coloring
  • Peanut butter
  • Coffee beans and tea bags
  • Dry oatmeal and/or cereal
  • Dry/evaporated/condensed milk
  • Bread crumbs
  • Cocoa Powder
  • Assorted baking items: chocolate chips, sprinkles, cupcake liners, pre-made frosting

 

Now all you need is a good cookbook and your cooking adventures can begin! Check out our other cooking articles for recipe ideas and tips for planning parties.



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Amanda


A great idea is to host a cooking (Pampered Chef) show. Most people, after moving into their first apartment, are short on funds. Hosting a cooking show can help you get many of these recommended items for free.

Melody


That’s a great idea! I love their products! Thanks for sharing!

 
 
shawn


how do you do that??

 
Autumn


loves it.

 


What do you mean host a cooking show?

Rich Bruno


Tune into Emeril Live on the Food Network. Or Racheal Ray’s 30 minute meals!

 
 
Danity


i like your help and thanks it will help alot

 
Dorothy Irby


Wish I had this list to go by when I first got married, in 1987.
Dorothy

 
Emily


Like totally awsomeOMG nuta yor kidding me I love your Ideas It’s so cool to hear that you like to be clean in your Kitchen and keep the germs away from everybody exspecially young childeron they get sick easy and old people die easy so I love your thinking and your planning with all your neatness. You are so brilient and very veryawsome so geeze your the coolest. Love Emily.

 
Janell


Thank You 4 this! I recently moved 3000 miles away frm al my friends and family! and thisis going to really help!

 
Iris


This is a lifesaver!!! No matter how many times you move, you always forget something you need until you need it. This list will help solve that problem!

 
Myran


Oh my gosh, thank you so much, I now have a printable list I can take with me to the store. You are a life saver. There is nothing worst than wanting to cook something in your new place and at the last minute find out you don’t have the right utensils.

 
Lisa


This is going to help me out a lot. Thank you. I do have an idea that would make it a little better though. You might want to add some basic cleaning supplies on the list. To clean up after you cooking fest. You will need to clean the counters, dishes, stove top, things like that. Just a thought. Again thank you for making this list avaible to us all.

 
Magan


When I turned sixteen I started asking for a few things for an apartment or living on my own, each year for Christmas. Then when it came time for me to move out, I had a fully stocked kitchen and an apartment full of refurbished hand-me-downs.

 


Great IDEAS!!!

 
Jessica


This is sooooo great. My boyfriend and I are moving out on our own and this is PERFECT for when we move out on our own. I can print it out and take it with us shopping. Thank you very much.

 
Micheal


I will say as a recent mover (of many times), who normally finds giving things away the norm because of limited space; this list is very comprehensive. It needs to add a few other essentials:
1. Mop
2. Broom
3. Cleaning agents
4. Wash rags
5. Hand Towels
6. Oven Mitts
7. Dishwasher (and detergent)
8. Soap (sink variety)
9. Sponge or scrubber

Just my two cents. M

 
JamminredheadEd


Something worth including in one’s kitchen stock:

* Adhesive Labels
* Permanent Marker

It’s a good idea to label the purchase date of items stocked and when they were opened. If there’s space enough on the label, include the expiration/discard by date since it’s easier to see. This practice helps to discourage the purchase of rarely used items and waste, and encourage freshness. Rising and/or pH control ingredients like baking soda, baking powder and yeast, for example, have their limits and don’t work as well or at all after exposure to air.

 
 

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