The Finished Task - Pantry edition

Since I obviously did a poor job of communicating that the photos I showed in my last post are from my pantry BEFORE I did a purge and reorganization, I thought I'd post the AFTER photos......but thank you to all of you that thought my pantry looked good before......LOL

Since none of us bake a lot, mostly just at holiday time or the occasional craving, I needed to move all of our baking supplies to the hard to reach top shelf.  We had been storing paper goods, light bulbs and some baking supplies up there but I had more taking up valuable real estate.

I used a Longeberger serving tray to hold all of our nuts, chocolate chips, raisins, cocoa powder, etc. and then I can just grab the tray to bring the stuff down for use.

We had our pasta, beans and rice not very accessible either and we use those items a lot so they needed to be somewhere for easy access so I moved them to a different part of the pantry.

I also have one of the turntables in the corner of those shelves.  One holds small containers of Splenda, brown sugar, a flour shaker, a cinnamon/sugar shaker and other assorted mixes.

I did get a lot of use out of my Dymo labeler during the re-do.  Some of my previous labels were so old they were peeling off, so I replaced all of the labels with the Dymo labels.

I've got all of our boxes and packages of quinoa, couscous, rice & pasta side dishes in plastic storage containers that can be pulled out.  Dressing mixes and dip mixes go in the hanging container.

I found those cute little mini bushel baskets at the dollar spot at Target and our kitty cat cookie jar came from Sur La Table when we were in the Twin Cities a couple years ago.

I keep fruits and vegetables in various Longaberger baskets and keep our canned vegies, tomato sauce, canned olives, jarred foods and tuna fish together and have those risers for cans they sit on.

On this shelf I've got our canned soups, ramen noodles, canned pasta for the kid in the house and condiments.  The turntable on this shelf holds vinegars, oils and cooking wines.
 

The lowest shelf in our pantry is where we store our bread (in a Longaberger gatherng basket), breakfast foods, toaster, grilled cheese sandwich maker, breakfast sandwich maker and more baskets of vegies and fruits.

Below the shelf is where I have plastic carts had hold potato chips (out of sight, out of mind), some of our paper goods, potatoes, onions and our soda can and bottle recycling bin (those bottles and cans are worth 5 cents a piece when returned).

I'm really hoping that this reorganization will work better for my family and I and hopefully I won't have to do it again any time soon.

But for right now.....our panty is a thing of beauty.  :)