Home with Lisa Quinn Episodes
Organize Your Pantry
Lisa Quinn reveals easy tips to get your pantry organized.
Organize your Pantry:
- Use clear containers for cereal and pasta
- Use a wire basket for things like popcorn
- Store like items together
- Create a baking kit
- Create a taco night kit
- Use a dish rack to store pot lids
- Use tension rods to separate trays, cutting boards and pots
- Use a shoe rack to store granola bars
- Try a lazy Susan for small items
- Take everything out of your pantry
- Clean your pantry shelves. Wipe away the crumbs.
- Canned Food, 2 to 5 years
- Cereal, 6 months
- Spices, 6 to 12 months
- Flour, 3 to 6 months
- Grains and legumes, 1 year
- Dried herbs, 6 months
- Condiments, 1 year
- Get rid of anything you don't use.
- Replace things that don't work.
- Use a utensil jar to store matches, birthday candles and other small items
- Make sure everything taking up space in your kitchen is something you use regularly. If you don't use it regularly, consider creating a bin in your garage with your special occasion pasta machines, fondue makers etc...
- Store knives near the cutting board in your food preparation zone.
- Keep all your pots, pans, pot holders, spoons, and spatulas close together
- Keep your baking items together
- Organize your serving items in one place. Keep napkins, serving dishes, table cloths and other similar items together
- Keep your cleaning supplies in one place. Make sure it it locked in a cabinet or stored on a high shelf if you have kids.
