Kitchen. Four Strategies for Organization in the Kitchen - Continued

 The Pantry is where all of your boxed and canned goods are kept. Some of us have a room that is our pantry, and many of us have a few cupboards that is used to store our canned and boxed foods, which needs to be kept organized and cleaned out just as the pantry room would. Keeping only enough in your pantry for two weeks is going to make your entire room/ cupboards/ and lazy susan’s work much more efficiently as a storage area. Keeping five weeks or more worth of stuff in your cupboards can be overwhelming as you open them up to try and find something for supper – not to mention the space that this much food would take. Organize your pasta’s together, your vegetables together and your snack foods together, even making a space where you keep lunch and/or baking stuff together. The more organized your cupboards are the easier making those shopping lists will be.

Spices and Goodies that you use every day in your cooking, or at least what you use in your kitchen when you need them, should be kept close at hand but in an organized manner so you can find them, reach them and use them without having to unload your entire cupboard to find what you want. A little carousel type shelving that you can spin around in the cupboard that is stacked with your favorite spices is a great way to get what you want and when you need it most. A spice rack on the wall that has three or four shelves that is only single deep is a great way to arrange your spices right by the stove. When spices and goodies are kept right new the stove you will think about using them more often, and using one that is a shelf that will display your spices can be a great addition for decorating in your home. The small cupboard about your stove area is a great place to keep spices, and an empty drawer beside your silverware drawer is also a handy place to keep your spices within reach and organized at the same time. 

Keeping your kitchen organized is more than just straightening out what is in the cupboards, but you also have to limit yourself to how much you are putting in the cupboards. For example, no one really needs six dozen glasses for everyday use, put some away in another cupboard, throw some away or give some away, keep just enough for, at most, two days worth of drinks and you will have plenty for even when company comes to the house.