Comments on: Food Organization, Storage and Menu Planning

By: Pam from Ohio

Pam from Ohio — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:03:10 +0000

Is there a list of must haves for the pantry? I need to organize, too many hands looking for things. I need to know what to have on hand. Thanks,

By: Toni

Toni — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:42:28 +0000

Toni (my mothers name by the way) I was looking at your post for organization. I too like to organize things, some of the things I do is try to place everything in containers, I like to have boundries on my shelves, I place like items together in buckets or baskets, I find this eaiser and things look lots neater. My most favorite thing I do are my “snack buckets” for my 4 kids. A few years ago I was having trouble with unfair sharing of the snacks. If one child liked something better than something else that child might eat so much of that one item that other family members might not get any of the item. I decided one Summer to purchase buckets for each kid ( I use a white dishpan) I wrote their names on them and then I purchase individual wraped snacks and divide them, you can only eat whats in your bucket, they are allowed to swap out snacks. Anyway, I hope you get the idea, it works really well.

By: Lara Gallagher

Lara Gallagher — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:34:42 +0000

It looks great! My pantry has become a mess these days too. Time to get in there and organize.

By: momstheword

momstheword — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:26:33 +0000

I love an organized pantry! We also turned a downstairs closet into a pantry. We just kind of did what you did. It’s now my mom’s pantry.

By: Org Junkie

Org Junkie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:42:08 +0000

I love the green cabinet! Well done, such a great feeling isn’t it!

Laura

By: Mary @Raising 4 Godly Men

Mary @Raising 4 Godly Men — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:24:07 +0000

This is one area I need to work on a bit more. Thanks for the how to’s and inspiration.

Blessings and ((HUGS))
In Him<
-Mary

By: Courtney @ Sister To Sister

Courtney @ Sister To Sister — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:27:17 +0000

That looks great! Very good job!

By: Dreamer

Dreamer — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:01:40 +0000

Wow, that is quite the job. I need to do the same. I know I have several boxes of cereal that no one eats that are way past their expiration hiding in my pantry.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:54:19 +0000

I am in love with your green hutch!!!! I too just did inventory of our pantry. We had some doubles and triples of big stuff! Keeping it organized is my goal too.
We have our grocery list of items we buy from each store we shop at posted in the pantry. The list are in order by where they are found in the store. It helps with time and buying only what we need. We also take our monthly menu with us to the store. If something is on sale ( a great buy) we change the menu up.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:20:06 +0000

I love decluttering and organizing things in my pantry and kitchen cabinets. I’m always looking for ways to make it work better, and thus, keeping me from buying things that have gotten “lost in the clutter.”

Good job! I noticed you had several containers that looked like they had homemade mixes. Do you have the “Make a Mix” cookbook?
That is my FAVORITE money-saving cookbook. If you don’t have it, I highly recommend it. See if you can get it at the library or through inter-library loan.