I have organized 5 food pantries in the past month.
The kitchen is the HUB of the home. It’s command central. And it is always being pillaged by the natives!
Here are the top 3 problems most kitchen pantry stockers face:
#1 Stocking the pantry {AKA getting the food to FIT and be used}
#2 Eating what you’ve actually bought
#3 Knowing what you need to replenish
Enter client #1 BEFORE
First I emptied and cleaned the pantry.
We moved all the coffee, powdered drinks and tea in to a beverage cabinet {The whole kitchen redo will be coming soon}
Some food was thrown away.
The Kitchen Aid mixer found a new home too.
Next I divided the pantry into zones.
The first two shelves I organized using Clever Container’s Document Boxes (#0213, $18.95)
The upper shelf is for crackers, soups, lunch and dinner “sides”
You can see the shelf with the 2 blue document boxes holds crackers and Ramen soup.
The lower shelf is for breakfast foods.
The red document box on the lower left is for candy. Red means STOP think before you eat CANDY!
The last shelf I organized was the one that had all the packety things.
I decided to use Clever Container’s Bin Pull Fridge with Dividers (#0596, $29.95)
It was PERFECT!
By adding some small rectangle white baskets I was able to create 6 sections for packets that ALL stood up!
AND the bin pull acts like a pantry drawer! AWESOME!
Here is the complete after:
I was done in 2 hours. I have 4 more pantries to show you over the next 4 weeks. The next two were also completed in under two hours. One pantry was completed using my NEW Virtual organization services.
The last one… was a special design.
How is your pantry looking?
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1 thing I would never never forget in my pantry , is to always making sure that every item stored should be
clearly visible and easily accessible. All cans in the pantry should have visible labels, so that I won’t be confused in getting some food.