Small Pantry Organization Tips, Hacks and Ideas: How to Organize Your Pantry on a Budget!
Learn how to organize your pantry on a budget with these small pantry organization tips, hacks and ideas.
Having a disorderly food pantry can make meal preparation difficult. It can also force you to spend more on food because you will often find yourself buying food items that you already have and simply can’t find.
Taking time to clean out and organize your pantry will make both preparing food and shopping for supplies simpler and easier.
Not everyone has the luxury of having a large pantry where they can store a year’s supply of box and canned goods. But most people can find a way to turn a broom closet or another cupboard into a small pantry to keep your foodstuffs.
Organizing your pantry doesn’t have to be expensive and here are some simple hacks that will allow you to organize your pantry on a budget.
As you remove items from the pantry to organize, put like items together. Breakfast food in one area, Baking items in another, boxed dinner in another area etc.
That way when you are ready to put the food back into the pantry everything will be correctly separated.
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#1. Label Everything
Not only does labelling helps to make your pantry look neat and organized, but it also makes it easier for you to find what you need.
Label storage containers as well as your shelves or areas of your shelves where you plan on setting certain items.
Put those items that you use the most often (on a daily basis) where it is easiest to reach and those items that you use the least often on the highest and lowest shelf.
#2. Make Use of On Hand Containers for Storage
You don’t have to go out and purchase all new storage containers in order to store those food items.
You can use mason jars or large olive, pickle or mayo jars for storing smaller food items such as those cupcake papers, popcorn, nuts, chocolate chips, and raisins and other such items.
#3. Use Stackable Racks to Maximize Storage Space
Maximize storage space by using stackable racks to organize canned foods and drinks. You will surely find these racks helpful if you don’t want your canned foods falling over and making a mess of your pantry shelves or your wine bottles falling and breaking in the process. You can also get any of these racks as gifts for organization lovers on your list.
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#4. Check Out the Dollar Store
It may surprise you to know that there are a lot of organizing and storage items that you can purchase at the dollar store to help organize your pantry.
Those plastic pop storage containers for your refrigerator work just as well for canned goods in the pantry.
You can also use a magazine holder to keep those canned goods handy while saving space.
You can also buy those large plastic cereal containers for storing not only cereal, but also for storing spaghetti noodles, macaroni, rice and other food items that comes in bags and you want to store in more safe containers.
You can also get small plastic baskets that can be used to hold different foodstuffs while keeping your pantry neat and tidy.
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#5. Make Use of Over the Door Shoe Organizer
Turn an over the door shoe holder into a handy pocketed over the door holder for those packaged foods such as gravy mix, taco mix, kool-aid, jello packets and the such. You can also place small bottles of sauce, mustard and other items in these pockets.
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#6. Use Lazy Susans to Make the Most of Your Corner Spaces
The corners of most pantries are often ignored since it is difficult to reach the box or that jar that is placed in the corner.
However, using Lazy Susans in the corner of your pantry can make the most of your space while making everything easier to reach.
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#7. Water Bottle Organizer
I don’t know about you, but I can’t seem to keep water bottles from falling over and knocking other things down as well especially when they are empty. If you are like me, then you will find this water bottle organizer handy and helpful. It will help to keep your water bottles organized and easily accessible. It is also stackable, helping you save space while keeping your pantry shelves neat and tidy.
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#8. Use Small Net Bags for Onions and Garlic
You can use small net bags for storing onions, garlic and potatoes and hang these bags from hooks at the side of your pantry where there are small spaces.
#9. Make Use of that Floor Space
You can make use of that floor space by placing crates with wheels on the floor and use that to store extra food items.
These items can be food that is too large for the shelves or simply extra food products that you don’t have room on the shelf for.
10. Keep a List on the Front of the Door
In order to ensure that you have all the food items you may need, then post a tablet or small whiteboard on the outside of your pantry door along with a writing implement so that when you run out of something on the pantry shelf you can put it on the list for the next time you go shopping.
Small Pantry Organization Hacks – Conclusion!
No matter what size your pantry may be keeping it organized will help you to make the most of your space and will make food preparation and shopping much easier.
I hope you found these small pantry organization tips helpful. Leave your feedback in the comment section.
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