Organizing Your Pantry

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Organizing Your Pantry

When I say pantry, I am referring
not only to the shelves of food
that you have but also the foods
in your freezer and long lasting
refrigerator items.

If you dont organize properly, you
could end up forgetting that you
have something and buy it again.

When organizing your dry and
canned foods, put like items
together, fruits with fruits,
vegetables with vegetables and
baking goods with baking goods.

It may seem silly, but it saves a
lot of time later when you are
looking for something specific.

Put all of your plastic wrapped
foods, such as different kinds of
beans and pastas in the same area,
this could also include coconut,
brown sugar etc.

Part of the reason for this is
that in most instances they lie
flat, and can easily be stacked on
top of one another.

When wrapping foods for freezing,
make sure they have at least one
flat side, this will make it
easier to store.

Use a one-inch piece of masking
tape and write what the item is
and the date it was frozen, attach
this to the end of the item that
will be towards the door of the
freezer.

Designate a specific area of the
freezer for certain foods; again,
keep like foods together, pork,
chicken, beef and hot dogs would
all go in the area for meats.

If items are small, they can be
put into a large plastic freezer
bag with other smaller items that
are alike, this makes things
easier to find and keeps all the
little packages from slipping to
the back of the freezer.

Vegetables and fruits could go in
one area; again they are in
packages and are fairly easy to
stack.

In the refrigerator, designate
areas just like the freezer, the
taller areas for drinks, and all
the condiments together, the
sandwich spreads, including
mustard and catsup together.

Try to put the items that are most
often used in the front, so you
dont have to dig each time you
want to find something.

By following this simple
organizational plan for your
pantry you will be able to
minimize the possibility of
duplicating items that have become
lost, and save time and money when
preparing food, creating your menu
and while shopping.

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