It’s essentially the most great time of the 12 months—at the least if you happen to ask anybody who works at SELF: The 2025 Pantry Awards season is formally upon us. Our annual franchise crowns the perfect shelf-stable gadgets to inventory in your house, tapping editors, cooks, registered dietitians, and residential cooks for his or her ideas on tons of—and tons of—of merchandise.
The trail to victory is scrumptious, however it’s plain previous enjoyable, too, and that’s what the Pantry Awards are all about. Consuming, cooking, and internet hosting could be a actual supply of pleasure, and we’re on the hunt to search out the gadgets that make it much more satisfying. As all the time, we’re in search of manufacturers to submit snacks, spreads, and boxed and canned pantry staples for us to contemplate. New this 12 months, we’re including one other class by well-liked demand: sips, which features a slew of shelf-stable, non-alcoholic drinks that pair nicely along with your favourite bites and really feel like a bit deal with if you sit right down to drink them.
So crack open a seltzer, place your serviette in your lap, and hold studying to be taught extra about which merchandise are eligible, the way to submit, and when submissions are due.
Methods to undergo the 2024 SELF Pantry Awards
Eligibility
- Solely shelf-stable gadgets are eligible for the Pantry Awards. Objects that require refrigeration after opening are honest sport.
- To be eligible, a product have to be obtainable on the market no later than March 1, 2025.
- Samples have to be obtainable for testing in December 2024. If sending samples is a monetary hardship on your model, please make an observation in your submission type—we will work collectively to determine one thing out!
- We kindly ask that every model submits not more than 5 gadgets complete. (There isn’t a price to submit!)
- Beneath, yow will discover our listing of eligible product classes. In the event you’re questioning whether or not a selected product matches into one among them, electronic mail hannah_pasternak@condenast.com and we can assist you out.
Our course of and timeline
All merchandise have to be submitted by way of our on-line type by November 21, 2024. If we’d like to check your product, we’ll attain out inside a number of weeks of the submission deadline to rearrange samples. To cut back waste, we could not name in gadgets that editors have beforehand sampled or have already got at dwelling.
Please fill out one type per merchandise—so if you happen to’d wish to submit one kind of oatmeal and one kind of granola, it’s best to fill out two separate types. In case you are submitting a product that’s obtainable in a number of taste varieties, please solely fill out one type and notice the varieties you want to us to contemplate on that type. (There’s an area the place you are able to do simply that!)
This 12 months, we shall be accepting submissions within the following classes:
Snacks
- Protein bars
- Snack bars (granola bars, and so on.)
- Crackers
- Popcorn
- Pretzels
- Potato chips
- Tortilla chips
- Pita chips
- Grain-alternative chips (lentil, veggie, and so on.)
- Seasoned nuts
- Pickles
- Olives
- Jerky
- Fruit-based snacks (gummies, dried fruit, chips, and so on.)
Spreads
- Olive oil
- Pink sauce (marinara, pomodoro, arrabbiata, vodka, and so on.)
- Cream sauce (Alfredo, carbonara, and so on.)
- Premade cooking sauces and marinades
- Scorching sauce
- BBQ sauce
- Salsa
- Ketchup
- Mustard
- Aioli
- Mayonnaise
- Salad dressing
Staples
- Tinned/jarred/canned tuna
- Tinned/jarred/canned fish (different)
- Broth (hen, veggie, and bone)
- Canned beans (chickpeas, black beans, cannellini beans, and so on.)
- Gluten-free pasta
- Granola
- Cold and warm oatmeal/grain cereals
- Pancake combine
- Immediate ramen
- Canned/prompt soups
- Boxed mac & cheese
Sips (canned and preportioned drinks)
- Shelf-stable milk and milk alternate options (almond, oat, cashew, soy, and so on.)
- Non-alcoholic beer/drinks
- Seltzer
- Chilly brew espresso
- Immediate espresso
- Soda and soda “alternate options”
This listing is topic to alter based mostly on the submissions we obtain.
Thanks, and good luck!
