Ways to Organize a Food Pantry
If your pantry looks anything like most, you're familiar with the half-filled cereal boxes and disorganized cans that can easily take over your storage space. With the right planning and organization, you'll be able to find things easily and save some money while you're at it. Does this Spark an idea?
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Your pantry should allow you to easily locate food for cooking and assess what food you need to buy during your next trip to the grocery store. Alejandro Costello, founder of Color-coded Organizing suggests you categorize your food for quick inventory--baking goods, dry goods, cereal, cans--putting the items you use most often at eye level. Use labels to help keep food in the right spot.
Shelf Height
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If the shelves in your pantry are adjustable, move them up and down to minimize wasted space. Put tall objects like cereal boxes on the tall shelves, and save the shorter shelves for cans.
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Expiration Dates
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Organizing your pantry can help you avoid having to throw away expired food. If you have several containers of the same thing, ZestyCook.com advises you to arrange them in order of expiration date to prevent the oldest one from going bad before you eat it.
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Lazy Susans can help you take advantage of the deep, hard to reach parts of your pantry. If you have lots of cans, use tiered can-stacking shelves so that you can easily find the can you want.
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