Tackle It Tuesday - The Pantry

This is my first one of these. Jumping right in...

My pantry cupboard was very user-unfriendly for a good long while until today. After the third consecutive round of ingredients for Tomato & Vegetable Soup were bought because I couldn't remember whether I had canned tomatoes or not, I knew something had to change.

Here's what it looked like beforehand:


Things are just shoved in there willy-nilly. Those big tubs you can see down the bottom hold multiple packages of things like pasta and flour. Down the very bottom (you can't quite see the whole thing) is a shelf where we keep appliances. I think that's my crockpot lid you can see.

And here's what it looked like when I was done:


So technically I just rearranged for ease of finding the things I need. Those big tubs were filled with outdated food and I had to throw out a whole lot of stuff (strike one for Mama), but now I have a canned good shelf (the one above the tubs), an 'everyday' shelf (for things like coffee, tea, spices) and a baking shelf (lots of Decor containers filled with brown sugar, icing sugar, crushed nuts, flour and so on).

Surprisingly, I could actually find the coffee this morning. Always a bonus!

Cheers,
Lizzie