Pantry Organization

While I was in Texas for Grad Girls Weekend, Mandy and I chatted about pantry organization. Our pantry isn't really a pantry, you see. We love all of our kitchen cabinets and placement of helpful drawers, but we really don't have a "pantry." So, we use one of our upper cabinets and lower shelf of our microwave cart to store food items that do not need to be refrigerated. The problem is, after about a week or two of organizing it, it starts to look like this:


It has become such a pain to find items that we have ended up with duplicates rather than sort through it when it's in the disorganized phase. So, Mandy, a Tupperware consultant for several years, showed us all her pantry. It was astounding how much she was able to fit! I promptly ordered what I thought would be enough to organize ours. Here's our newly organized pantry!


Clearly, I still need a few more modular mates to be most efficient. The funny thing is that picture two has much more items (from the cabinets because it's a pain to put some of the items up we use all the time), and I still have a good amount of space left. The great thing is that to keep it this organized we just have to put the items back in the modular mates; we don't have to take things out and put them all back in the cabinet in the same order. Thanks Mandy!