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Is your home pantry everything it could be?  A well put together pantry can be the centerof everything that happens in your kitchen. Home organization in your pantry will save you time and money. A successful pantry is made up of two components: anorganized pantry and a good system for stocking it.  You need to develop good habits when it comesto your pantry and home organization.  Ifyour stocking and organization habits are bad now, a little guidance can changethat!  IDon’t Have a Pantry…. Are you thinking an organized pantry would be great, infact A PANTRY would be great!  Justbecause you have a small kitchen, or your kitchen doesn’t contain a traditionalpantry closet, does not mean you can’t have this important storage space!   Your pantry doesn’t have to be in your kitchen.  Any space that is dry, and temperatureregulated can serve the purpose.  Smallspace demand creativity.  Find unusedspace in a linen or coat closet. Getit Organized… 1.   Emptyout your pantry space.  Clean off theshelves, line them if needed.  Discardfood that has expired.  Take a good lookat what you have.  If you have beencompulsively buying one item, but didn’t notice your stock growing in a messyspace, you may have far more than you could ever use before it expires.  If this is the case consider donating theseextras to a food pantry.   2.   Sortyour food into categories.  Keeping likeitems together will help you find things faster, and help you visually inventorywhat you have.  Examples of categoriesare breakfast cereals, soup, baking goods.    3.   Usea layout that makes sense.  After schoolsnacks for the kids should go on lower shelves, where they can reach them.  Baking supplies you only use three times ayear should be in a harder to reach place.  4.   Makethe space you have count.  Get the mostin by using your vertical space.  If yourshelves are adjustable, great!  If theyaren’t look for products like can risers to use all of the height in yourcloset.  10-12 inches of dead air inbetween your shelves is just plain wasted space.  Measure your shelves and invest in a couplegreat baskets for items that tend to flop around and create messes ontraditional shelves.  The bigoffenders?  Bags of chips and othersnacks, bags of pasta, beans, and flavor packets.   WhatShould I Be Keeping? Now that you have cleaned out your space and organizedwhat you already have, how do you know what else you need?  Look at what you buy regularly.  If up until now you had no home organizationin your pantry don’t start out with the goal of a pantry stocked for a year ofmeals.  Take it slow, changing habitsdoesn’t have to be hard if you do it right.  Start with a back-up of each of the non-perishable itemsyou buy regularly at the grocery store. If you were going to buy one can of beans, buy two.  If you are starting from scratch giveyourself time, a little planning and coupon use can go a long way to stock yourpantry.  When you pull something out ofyour pantry add it to your grocery list, you’ll need to replace your stock. IWant an Organized Pantry NOW… If you had been in the habit of shopping without a list,or jamming things in to your cabinets with no plan, an organized pantry canseem like a lot of work.  And if youdon’t put some effort into changing habits you may not be successful at gettingorganized.  Here are some quick tips tohelp you get off on the right foot: ·       Change one thing at a time.  If you have just reorganized your entirecloset and are adjusting to a new system there it might not be the time tobuild a new habit in the kitchen too. ·       Get everyone on board.  Getting everyone who uses the pantry to buyin will make changing habits in your storage much easier.  When everyone puts things where they belongyou won’t have to spend time re-shelving what others have done.  It will lessen the chance of you burning outand giving up!  ·       Give yourself time.  Like most home organization once we decide tomake the change we want everything perfect right away!  Keep In mind changing habits takes about 30days.  Stick with for a month and youwill find it gets easier and easier to keep organized. Use home organization tosave yourself time.  You can put a stopto needless trips to the grocery store for supplies you already own, but simplycan’t find.  It will save you money aswell since you won’t be buying unnecessary duplicates.  Get started today and your holidays can be aless stressful time.