When we lived in Fort Worth we had a MASSIVE pantry. I never had to even think about organizing a small pantry. Our old pantry was an entire separate room in our house. Mind you, our house was super tiny because we lived in the married housing section of the seminary campus. Our entire home was about 650 sq. Ft. and 625 of that was pantry. I kid. But seriously, I wish I could have kept that pantry and relocated it to Oklahoma.

Our current house is much bigger, but has absolutely no pantry. There is a cabinet, and we have to cram all our stuff in there, but then it’s hard to find things – especially on the top self because I’m not a giant and I don’t like using our bar stools to climb on because I’m pretty clumsy by nature and have been known to take a spill, just from walking, that required surgery.  It’s a terrible situation, y’all. Go ahead and take a moment of silence for my old pantry that I miss so much.  

I have tried over and over to organize this glorified cabinet and nothing has really stuck. I suspect Evan has something to do with this. Isla can’t reach the cabinet yet so it can’t be her. Now we could also use the cabinet down below for pantry storage but we use that for other storage and who wants to bend over all the time to find stuff and have your butt hit the kitchen island? Not me. #Tinykitchenprobs 

This is my attempt at organizing my pantry.  

I started by pulling everything out and giving it a good wipe down. After the wipe down, I was pretty tired and decided that I regretted this decision to clean out the pantry and tried to recruit Evan to help. No such luck.  

The next thing I did was throw away all the expired stuff. This was a ton of stuff. It felt so good to purge. I also made of list of items to replace. Then I threw away all the bags of food that had been open for…. awhile. #stalechips 

I put the things we don’t use that much on the top shelf. This included our bulk items, and baking ingredients. 

On the middle shelf I have the spices (That little white thingy is a spice drawer that pulls out and holds 18 spice containers. I also have our canned goods, jars of pasta sauce, tortillas and stuff we use more often on this shelf.  

Then on bottom shelf I have our tea bags, jars of peanut butter, snacks for Isla in the little gray bin. I used the two wire baskets for bags like our flax seeds and sauce packets and the other one holds snacks like popcorn or granola bars.  

Look how clean it looks. Ahhhhhhh. Love. Now if I can just keep it that way.  What is your favorite way to organize your pantry? What kind of storage solutions do you use?