The Benefits of Organizing Your Pantry

One of the most effective ways to keep your pantry organized is to reuse items you already have at home. One item that is often overlooked but can be very useful is the mason jar. If you don't have a mason jar, they are super cheap to buy for a pack of 12. Even better, you could use an old spaghetti jar or an old pickle jar, which are essentially free and can be repurposed as airtight containers for storing snacks.

For example, I decided to decant my snacks into mason jars, which not only made them look neater but also made it easier to see what was inside. The clear glass cylinder vase that I bought from IKEA is another great item to use for this purpose. I like the fact that it's clear so I can see exactly what's in it, and I'll be able to write down what's going into each jar if I need to change things up later.

Another problem that many people face when organizing their pantry is dealing with pouches. They tend to get lost in the pantry and don't really stand up on their own. To solve this issue, I found a creative solution. While walking around my house, I saw a letter holder that was nothing special about it but looked like it could work perfectly for holding my pouches. I simply used it to hold them upright, which allows me to see how many I have and prevents them from falling over.

Now that my pantry is organized, I can finally put everything back in their proper places. The boxes are taller and I have more headroom up here, so I'm putting the pasta and sauce on one shelf. This way, I can see exactly what I have and what I need to buy next time I'm at the store. For my daughter's snacks and drinks, I've designated a separate shelf that's at her height level, which allows her to grab whatever she needs without having to climb up or down.

As I cleaned out my pantry, I realized how much of an impact it can have on my daily life. It's no longer overwhelming and stressful, but rather a breeze to navigate. The cleaning process also made me realize how much I had forgotten about in the back of the pantry, so it's been a great discovery.

One of the last tips I want to share with you is utilizing the space on your door. I have a dry erase board that I bought for $7, and I'll be attaching it to the door using sticky velcro strips. This will become a landing spot for my pantry inventory, grocery list, and weekly meal plan. It's a great way to keep track of what I need to buy and what's already in stock, and it's also a convenient place to jot down notes and reminders.

Overall, organizing your pantry can make a huge difference in your daily life. By reusing items you already have at home, utilizing creative solutions like letter holders and dry erase boards, and keeping your pantry tidy, you'll be able to find what you need quickly and easily. And the best part? It's not as heavy or overwhelming as it used to be!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys welcome back to handmade i'm jill and as you can see we are back in my kitchen the reason being is today i'm going to finally tackle something that's been on my to-do list forever i'm going to organize my pantry and we've all seen these gorgeous pictures on the internet and from my favorite organizing store showing these perfectly beautiful organized pantries the problem is most of the time they spend about 500 on organizing supplies and bins and things like that unfortunately that's not in my budget right now so today i'm gonna show you how to organize a pantry for less than 50 hopefully even cheaper let's get started okay guys step one is to clear this obviously overstuffed pantry i'm gonna take every single thing out i'm gonna do two things while i'm doing this one i'm gonna try to sort them into categories of like things like pasta or breakfast or treats or drinks things like that so i'm gonna sort that second i'm gonna check the expiration dates on the things i'm a little afraid of what i might find also several of the things that i have duplicates up if i'm not gonna eat them before the expiration date i'm going to go ahead and donate them so let's get every single thing out of here it's like making as few trips as possible from your car from the grocery store uh we're gonna see how much i can fit in my arms okay this is what's funny i have three dill mustards now i love dill i i'm not a huge mustard fan at all why i have three and i guarantee i have one in my fridge look at that one in the fridge too that's the problem with an unorganized pantry though is you have things where you buy extra things that you already have i didn't know that i had two or really three mustards in there already so when i go to the grocery store i'm like oh i see the mustard i'm gonna buy the mustard i should have checked and seen that i had it but it was hiding behind all the other stuff so when it's organized it's a lot better at cutting down on food waste as i'm doing this and seeing a lot of these things i'm giving myself a new goal and i'm going to make a pantry inventory list to know what i have and i'm going to try to use up a lot of this food in here by being creative with meal planning before it goes bad and buying new things okay empty but dirty step two is we are going to wipe down all our shelves and sweep it up okay empty starting with a clean slate step two all of this food even spilled over onto some of my other counters came out of that narrow pantry hard to believe as i was pulling it like i said i kind of sorted it into categories i've got broths and soups and condiments canned food sauces pasta but now i'm gonna go through it all and see what maybe has already expired or i'm gonna pull out things that i'm not gonna eat and donate them to somebody that will before they expire so uh let's get started on that job i have to go check on the dog because she stole something up okay so my food is sorted and here is what remains it all fits on the island i have a large amount of donate and expired but now i'm going to figure out how many shelves i need and how i'm going to organize it the best i'm gonna be using different containers and some other hacks so now that i have all of my food out of my pantry i'm trying to figure out a few better storage solutions one of the problems that i always have is stale food my daughter is not very good at closing the bags back so i want to put it in an airtight container so it doesn't go stale obviously i can buy lots of different types of containers from the store but i want to reuse something i already have i'm sure that most people probably have a good old mason jar in their basements in their house if you don't have a mason jar they're super cheap to buy for a pack of 12. even better you could use an old spaghetti jar or an old pickle jar anything like that and you have something you can use for free so i'm just going to decant my snacks into mason jars and then you have an airtight lid yep next up this is just a glass cylinder vase that i bought from ikea i like that it's clear so i can see exactly what's in it how much is in it and i'm gonna write exactly what's going in here okay and if you're ready to change this at any time to put something different in there all you have to do is use nail polish remover and it comes right off okay next problem what do you do with all these pouches they're going to get lost in the pantry they don't really stand up on their own so while walking around my house i saw this it is a letter holder nothing special about it but look at that i'm literally just gonna use it to hold my pouches that stand straight up then i can see how many i have and they don't fall over i love this don't need to buy an expensive pouch holder perfect so now it's time to put everything back in these boxes are taller and i have some more headroom up here so i'm going to put them right there i have corralled all my pasta in this basket perfect all right one shelf done pasta pasta sauce okay two because this is still out of reach of my daughter i want to save some lower shelves that are at her height level for her foods and snacks that she can grab herself so i think i'm gonna do um maybe condiments and canned food on this shelf again cleaning this out makes it so much easier to see what you already have and what you need i always have cans of tomatoes and beans on hand for chili and i can see right now that i'm out so that's something i need to stock up on next time i'm at the store so there's my tomatoes tomato sauce there we go i love that that fits perfectly right there i can see how many packs of tuna i have here's some of my pouches i have a couple more i'm gonna put over here okay the next shelf down i still have some kind of like odds and ends some snack type food so that's just going to be kind of my shelf that maybe doesn't have something that fits in a category applesauce snack olives applesauce i'm gonna do this and that seems kind of crazy right now but i have peanut butter somewhere i think my daughter was eating making herself some peanut butter crackers earlier but i'll put like peanut butter jams these are little individual peanut butters i think i'll put that there sandwich type stuff put my snack jars okay so instead of like fitting that which is fine but there's a lot of stinky space in there so let's cut this little fairy basket that's perfectly it okay popcorn now recycle this now we'll do my daughter's shelf okay so i just had a big basket that was kind of overflowing of chips and stuff but now that i've cleaned out my pantry i've actually gained space in there so i'm gonna put my chips in here put them in baskets oh i love that i think that is so cool out of the way in the dark where they like to be a little basket and i even have extra room i don't even know how i managed that but i am proud okay my last and final tip is to utilize this space on the door that right now is not being used for anything i have this in my office and i bought a second one the exact same size that was a dry erase board for seven dollars so i'm just going to attach these to the door with sticky velcro strips and this will be a great landing space for pantry inventory grocery list a weekly meal list things like that it's a good height too to be able to write on it and that's it i have been organized clean beautiful pantry i'm thrilled with how this turned out it's organized i can see what i have what i need to buy and it looks nice really it couldn't be any heavier let me know in the comments below which one of these tips was your favorite or if you have any suggestions for other things i could do in this open space i really think that this letter organizer is my favorite i think it's pretty brilliant if i do say so myself if you enjoyed this video don't forget to give us a like and subscribe and we'll see you next time youhi guys welcome back to handmade i'm jill and as you can see we are back in my kitchen the reason being is today i'm going to finally tackle something that's been on my to-do list forever i'm going to organize my pantry and we've all seen these gorgeous pictures on the internet and from my favorite organizing store showing these perfectly beautiful organized pantries the problem is most of the time they spend about 500 on organizing supplies and bins and things like that unfortunately that's not in my budget right now so today i'm gonna show you how to organize a pantry for less than 50 hopefully even cheaper let's get started okay guys step one is to clear this obviously overstuffed pantry i'm gonna take every single thing out i'm gonna do two things while i'm doing this one i'm gonna try to sort them into categories of like things like pasta or breakfast or treats or drinks things like that so i'm gonna sort that second i'm gonna check the expiration dates on the things i'm a little afraid of what i might find also several of the things that i have duplicates up if i'm not gonna eat them before the expiration date i'm going to go ahead and donate them so let's get every single thing out of here it's like making as few trips as possible from your car from the grocery store uh we're gonna see how much i can fit in my arms okay this is what's funny i have three dill mustards now i love dill i i'm not a huge mustard fan at all why i have three and i guarantee i have one in my fridge look at that one in the fridge too that's the problem with an unorganized pantry though is you have things where you buy extra things that you already have i didn't know that i had two or really three mustards in there already so when i go to the grocery store i'm like oh i see the mustard i'm gonna buy the mustard i should have checked and seen that i had it but it was hiding behind all the other stuff so when it's organized it's a lot better at cutting down on food waste as i'm doing this and seeing a lot of these things i'm giving myself a new goal and i'm going to make a pantry inventory list to know what i have and i'm going to try to use up a lot of this food in here by being creative with meal planning before it goes bad and buying new things okay empty but dirty step two is we are going to wipe down all our shelves and sweep it up okay empty starting with a clean slate step two all of this food even spilled over onto some of my other counters came out of that narrow pantry hard to believe as i was pulling it like i said i kind of sorted it into categories i've got broths and soups and condiments canned food sauces pasta but now i'm gonna go through it all and see what maybe has already expired or i'm gonna pull out things that i'm not gonna eat and donate them to somebody that will before they expire so uh let's get started on that job i have to go check on the dog because she stole something up okay so my food is sorted and here is what remains it all fits on the island i have a large amount of donate and expired but now i'm going to figure out how many shelves i need and how i'm going to organize it the best i'm gonna be using different containers and some other hacks so now that i have all of my food out of my pantry i'm trying to figure out a few better storage solutions one of the problems that i always have is stale food my daughter is not very good at closing the bags back so i want to put it in an airtight container so it doesn't go stale obviously i can buy lots of different types of containers from the store but i want to reuse something i already have i'm sure that most people probably have a good old mason jar in their basements in their house if you don't have a mason jar they're super cheap to buy for a pack of 12. even better you could use an old spaghetti jar or an old pickle jar anything like that and you have something you can use for free so i'm just going to decant my snacks into mason jars and then you have an airtight lid yep next up this is just a glass cylinder vase that i bought from ikea i like that it's clear so i can see exactly what's in it how much is in it and i'm gonna write exactly what's going in here okay and if you're ready to change this at any time to put something different in there all you have to do is use nail polish remover and it comes right off okay next problem what do you do with all these pouches they're going to get lost in the pantry they don't really stand up on their own so while walking around my house i saw this it is a letter holder nothing special about it but look at that i'm literally just gonna use it to hold my pouches that stand straight up then i can see how many i have and they don't fall over i love this don't need to buy an expensive pouch holder perfect so now it's time to put everything back in these boxes are taller and i have some more headroom up here so i'm going to put them right there i have corralled all my pasta in this basket perfect all right one shelf done pasta pasta sauce okay two because this is still out of reach of my daughter i want to save some lower shelves that are at her height level for her foods and snacks that she can grab herself so i think i'm gonna do um maybe condiments and canned food on this shelf again cleaning this out makes it so much easier to see what you already have and what you need i always have cans of tomatoes and beans on hand for chili and i can see right now that i'm out so that's something i need to stock up on next time i'm at the store so there's my tomatoes tomato sauce there we go i love that that fits perfectly right there i can see how many packs of tuna i have here's some of my pouches i have a couple more i'm gonna put over here okay the next shelf down i still have some kind of like odds and ends some snack type food so that's just going to be kind of my shelf that maybe doesn't have something that fits in a category applesauce snack olives applesauce i'm gonna do this and that seems kind of crazy right now but i have peanut butter somewhere i think my daughter was eating making herself some peanut butter crackers earlier but i'll put like peanut butter jams these are little individual peanut butters i think i'll put that there sandwich type stuff put my snack jars okay so instead of like fitting that which is fine but there's a lot of stinky space in there so let's cut this little fairy basket that's perfectly it okay popcorn now recycle this now we'll do my daughter's shelf okay so i just had a big basket that was kind of overflowing of chips and stuff but now that i've cleaned out my pantry i've actually gained space in there so i'm gonna put my chips in here put them in baskets oh i love that i think that is so cool out of the way in the dark where they like to be a little basket and i even have extra room i don't even know how i managed that but i am proud okay my last and final tip is to utilize this space on the door that right now is not being used for anything i have this in my office and i bought a second one the exact same size that was a dry erase board for seven dollars so i'm just going to attach these to the door with sticky velcro strips and this will be a great landing space for pantry inventory grocery list a weekly meal list things like that it's a good height too to be able to write on it and that's it i have been organized clean beautiful pantry i'm thrilled with how this turned out it's organized i can see what i have what i need to buy and it looks nice really it couldn't be any heavier let me know in the comments below which one of these tips was your favorite or if you have any suggestions for other things i could do in this open space i really think that this letter organizer is my favorite i think it's pretty brilliant if i do say so myself if you enjoyed this video don't forget to give us a like and subscribe and we'll see you next time you\n"