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Abbot Lane, before and after, decorating, my home, organizing · February 10, 2017

6 Ways to Organize Your Pantry

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6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

6 Ways to Organize Your Pantry 

 

I have been organizing my house like crazy. Over the past month I got my closets cleaned out and this week I got my pantry all organized, including new trash cans – one for trash and another for recycling. I’m partnering with Glad and their ForceFlex Kitchen Pro trash bags to share some pantry organizing ideas! I love making my kitchen more organized as well as beautiful. 6 Ways to Organize Your Pantry 

6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

6 Ways to Organize Your Pantry 

1.   Create easy access.

With hungry kids, my pantry can get SUPER messy if they have to rummage around to find what they are looking for. I divided my pantry up into “zones”. The main zone is the center shelf of the panty and I keep things on it that we use a lot like — lunch supplies, baking supplies, pastas, ramens, and other dry foods. I put them in galvanized buckets to keep things pretty. Each bucket has like foods — for example, pastas in one, ramens in another. All the kids have to do is pull a bucket out and get whatever item out that they need.

6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

6 Ways to Organize Your Pantry 

6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

2.  Optimize Space.

The pantry in our new home is much smaller than the one I created at the 1905 Cottage. I had to pare down the things that we keep in the pantry. I keep the canned food in a turn-around cabinet inside of our island. I keep the rest of the non-refrigerated food in the smaller pantry. To optimize space, I added a couple wood turntables and keep essentials on them. One turntable has cooking oils on it. The other turntable has syrups and baking items. The turntables make the corners of the pantry very accessible. All we have to do is turn the turntables to see all of the supplies. It makes preparing food so much easier. Another items that I love is the spice turnaround and pull out spice rack. I have printable labels that make finding spices easy and so much prettier.

3. Label everything.

On the bottom shelf I have crates where I keep things that are bigger and require more space – like chips, breakfast cereals, snacks. I made printable labels that I cut out and put on wood tags and hot glued on the crates. Everything is stored together and it makes the pantry stay cleaner when the kids know where things go.

6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

6 Ways to Organize Your Pantry 

4. Leave a little space.

In the middle of the pantry I keep a tray with the salt and pepper shakers and napkins, as well as the cookie jar. This makes getting a quick snack easy and looks nice when the pantry is open. Above that shelf I left a little space where I keep pretty rolling pins and bakeware. These are items that are useful and pretty.

6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

6 Ways to Organize Your Pantry 

5. Put staples in clear jars.

I put some baking and cooking staples in clear jars and labeled them with my craft cutter. Items like flour, sugar, rice, etc. The large jars look nice and make it easy to find staples that we use most.

6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

6 Ways to Organize Your Pantry 

6. Keep things tidy.

Just like anything else, if we don’t stay on top of our pantry it can get messy and disorganized in no time. We have committed to spending 5 minutes a day tidying our pantry to keep it clean and organized.

6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

There’s nothing worse than taking the trash out and having it spill all over your clean kitchen. I love Glad ForceFlex Kitchen Pro trash bags because they are SO strong and they give us 53% more bag!! They are made out of this quilted material that stretches so much. It’s great because sometimes our trash gets very full before we remember to take it out. And our homeowners association has a rule that our trashcans can’t be left outside, so I love that the Glad ForceFlex Kitchen Pro bags have LeakGuard Technology and Febreeze Odor Control the OdorShield™. The  Febreeze OdorShield™makes it so that our garage doesn’t smell like trash and  the LeakGuard™ technology keep the trash from leaking inside the trash cans. We don’t have to take the trash out as much and it makes keeping our home clean and happy SO much easier.

 

6 ways to organize your pantry. Ways to keep your home more clean and organized!

 

 

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How do YOU keep your home neat and clean? 

xoxo

 

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Glad. The opinions and text are all mine.

Posted By: Jen · In: Abbot Lane, before and after, decorating, my home, organizing

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Comments

  1. Carmel Wear says

    March 1, 2017 at 4:09 AM

    Hi. i like your blog, some useful tips. i always have invested in jars for pastas etc, but how many times have we all put salt in our coffee and sugar on our food? maybe it is time to take your advice and add the labels, your pantry looks great by the way.

    • Jen says

      March 2, 2017 at 9:52 PM

      Thanks Carmel!!

      xoxoxoxo

  2. Kimber says

    February 23, 2017 at 9:25 AM

    I really need to label more! Especially now that my kids are starting to read. I am so tired of having to sort after everyone all the time.

    • Jen says

      February 25, 2017 at 10:51 PM

      Thank you Kimber!!

      xoxox

  3. Mariah Leeson says

    February 22, 2017 at 11:00 PM

    So organized and pretty. Great tips, I need to label things in my pantry.

    • Jen says

      February 25, 2017 at 10:51 PM

      Thanks Mariah. It feels so clean now 🙂

      xoxo

  4. Becky says

    February 21, 2017 at 4:07 PM

    I love these tips and ideas! I really need to get some clear jars for my staples. Thanks!

    • Jen says

      February 25, 2017 at 10:51 PM

      Thanks Becky!!

      xoxo

  5. Jen Sedillo says

    February 21, 2017 at 7:50 AM

    So many great tips!!

    • Jen says

      February 25, 2017 at 10:52 PM

      Thank you Jen!!

      xoxoxo

  6. Amber Price says

    February 20, 2017 at 9:38 PM

    Smart ideas! My pantry is hard to keep under control with 4 little boys in my house.

    • Jen says

      February 25, 2017 at 10:52 PM

      Thanks Amber!!

      xoxoxo

  7. Laura Nazimiec says

    February 17, 2017 at 9:12 AM

    Your pantry is beautiful. I love your blog.

    • Jen says

      February 25, 2017 at 10:53 PM

      Thank you Laura! That really means so much to me!!

      xoxo

  8. Amy says

    February 10, 2017 at 2:30 PM

    i’m going to try this on my own pantry! i’m always struggling with keeping all my ingredients and appliances hidden and neat! what a great idea!

    • Jen says

      February 25, 2017 at 10:53 PM

      Thanks Amy!!

      xoxoxo

Hi! I'm Jen Hadfield. I'm a mom of 5 restoring an 1891 home in the heart of Salt Lake City. I love being creative and sharing simple ideas to make your life easier and more beautiful!

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