It has taken me three paydays to finish my pantry project I am soooo happy. I had bought during our paydays some containers from Dollar General it wont keep the ants out but it will deter them and keep the mice away. I was shocked to find some mice in my home. I havent seen any for ages so I am hoping they are gone nothing for them to eat now. I spent $50 less this payday grocery shopping day because I finally know what I have and didnt buy double! If your looking for my cans they are in another pantry along with my homemade stuff. I tried putting the image on here but it came out too big so doing a direct link http://www.frugalcountrymom.com/images/pantry.jpg I would love to see everyone elses pantry if you got a camera. I love getting new ideas
liked big one better! i looked at both the pics of your pantry, and it looks so clean and organized! i liked your big picture better actually, just because i could read the labels, to see how you organized things. anyway just wanted to see an organized pantry, thought it might inspire me to work on mine lol:lol: Heather
Thanks I need to take a better picture so you can see the labels. The bigger containers holds rice, pasta, noodles, beans. The smaller ones, pudding, jellos, oatmeal packages left over, hot chocolate, regular teas, different flavor teas (yes I am a tea drinker) dry sause mixes. In middle is the condiments, ketchup, peanut butter, syrup, pickles. Top shelf is cereals, oatmeal, very top is my lamp oils and platic stuff for partys which we always host here for my family.
It looks great! Are you sure its a pantry, and you didn't mix in school supplies in those bins? WOW ! Good Organizational skills there.
Wow my DH would love for my pantry to look like that....instead it looks like a tornado went through it...oh well it will have to do for now.
I had a pantry like that ........ DH built it in then about 2 years later he decided to rip it out and put in more cabbinets........ I think I like the pantry better.
I love my pantry! It's pretty organized, but not very well stocked. That's something I want to work on. We eat very few canned veggies. I prefer fresh or frozen over canned. For those of you who have stocked pantries, do you add things you don't typically eat? I always keep extra pasta, rice, and soups on hand, but that's about it.
I do have dry milk which I hardly use, freebie stuff I got via coupon or when HEB has buy one thing and get all these other things free especially when I am going to buy it already its a great deal I stick in in the cupboard for later. My sister will tell me the great deals she got of an item and I look at it and say, but you dont use this item. She says, "well yah but it was a great deal with the coupon" She ends up giving it to her daughter or it just sits there. Unless its free I think its a waste to buy something you dont use. Unless your thinking of emergency stuff?
Looks great Sam, yea I have alot of things in containers down south Texas the humdity gets everything gross. But, anyway when you get time will you come and do mine. I want mine to look like that too. Neat and in order...
hehe Kris It took me three paydays to do that and my free time after the kids and hubby were in bed. I figured it cost me around $40 for all those containers from Dollar General I like the twist on one for cereal keeps the ants out better. I saved $50 on grocery this last payday so I figured I am even Sam
I was thinking emergency stuff. But I love those HEB buy this, get these free (meal deal) sales!! I try to plan meals around those sales.
Okay, you encouraged me to organize my pantry! I used what I had on hand. As you can see, I attached a "shoe and purse holder" to the inside of the door. I had this up in the top of my closet for months & "badda-bing!" - I thought of it! I still have a few more things (tubs) that I want to get, but it's getting there! I hung my grocery sack holder on the hook on the door. Snacks are on the top shelf. Second from the top are cereals, pretzels and crackers. Canned fruit, veggies, beans, etc. are on the third shelf. The bottom shelf has soups, chicken broth, kids snacks, and Poptarts. On the floor I have a 2-shelf bin; in the top are juice boxes and bottled water, in the bottom are potatoes and onions. In a tub (which I had elsewhere in the house) I put dried beans. In the basket is rice, pasta and noodles. In front, on the floor, is microwave popcorn and things I buy 'extra' so we don't run out (ketchup, mayo, mustard, syrup, etc.).
Great job ladies! I am going to re-do mine this November. We cleaned out the pantry 2weeks ago when I found "Flour and grain weevils" in my flour and rice! I even found them in a new bag of flour! My sister said that I can keep my flour in the freezer. I had never heard of this?
Not sure about the freezer, but my mom always kept hers in the fridge. I do some, but am not diligent about it. Maybe I should be.
I have a small freezer so I was thinking of placing my staples in containers on the refrigerator door. Is that okay?
I keep my flour in the fridge along with pancake mix and bisquick mix.. Sometimes we put the cereal in there too. Depends on how humid it is.. I HATE soggy cereal.
I think that would be fine. I don't have extra freezer space, either, so stocking up here has to be with non-perishables.
