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2 Quick Tips for Organizing Food Storage Areas in Your Kitchen

By Erika in Home

It’s not an easy task to keep your kitchen organized when you have a busy family. Especially the food; kids often aren’t great about putting things back where they belong and that’s if they haven’t eaten it all first! Luckily, it’s not hard to simplify organizing food storage areas in your kitchen.

My husband just now finished remodeling my kitchen (it used to be super tiny) but it’s been a work-in-progress for over a year now. Last summer, when the cabinets and counters were installed, one of my priorities was to find a good system to keep my kitchen organized, especially the food. 

With four kids ages 5-13, who are old enough to help with chores, including putting food away after grocery shopping and meals, I knew it was important to set up a simple system for organizing.

Tired of losing track of what's in your kitchen food cupboards? These two simple tips that will transform how you organize food storage areas & make life so much easier! this idea now...

I’ve learned two simple concepts that have made a huge difference in organizing food storage areas in my kitchen and best of all, keeping it that way.

#1 Smart Storage Containers

I’ve tried all sorts of methods for organizing my food kitchen cupboards, from using original packaging to all sorts of storage containers. But the easiest way -and what’s really stuck – was to choose one standard container size for my main food cupboard.

I adore these Better Home & Garden containers from Walmart. They’re affordable at just $7 each and I love how they’re slim enough to fit quite a few on one shelf.

Tired of losing track of what's in your kitchen food cupboards? These two simple tips that will transform how you organize food storage areas & make life so much easier!

You know how little boxes or containers always get shoved into the back and hidden? These containers take up the whole front-to-back of the cupboard so that doesn’t happen. 

Tired of losing track of what's in your kitchen food cupboards? Don't miss these two simple tips that will transform how you organize food storage areas & make life so much easier!

I keep other food items that require larger storage in a lazy susan in a lower cupboard.  

#2 Labeling is My Best Friend

If you’ve read other organizing posts here at Living Well Mom, you’ll see that I often talk about labeling and that’s because it’s made a huge difference in how I organize my home. Labeling is a reminder to everyone – not just us, but hubby and the kids too – about where something belongs.

Labeling is especially useful if you have children who are old enough to help put things away. My daughter is responsible for clearing the counters and sometimes that includes ingredients that belong in my food cupboard. Labels make it clear to her where things belong without me having to remind her.

Tired of losing track of what's in your kitchen food cupboards? Don't miss these two simple tips that will transform how you organize food storage areas & make life so much easier!

I used my label maker to clearly label both the containers and their spot on the cupboard shelf, so it’s easy to tell exactly where something belongs. The labels are easy to remove if I need to change something later.

Tired of losing track of what's in your kitchen food cupboards? Don't miss these two simple tips that will transform how you organize food storage areas & make life so much easier!

One of the best parts about organizing food storage areas like this is that it doesn’t require a lot of time and there’s no DIY skills required. (Always a plus in my book, because I’m not so handy there.)

Tired of losing track of what's in your kitchen food cupboards? These two simple tips that will transform how you organize food storage areas & make life so much easier!

Choose one standard size storage container whenever possible in organizing your food storage areas and be sure to label. You’ll notice a big difference in how organized your kitchen is, just like I have with mine.

Do you have a favorite kitchen organizing tip?

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    Filed Under: Home, Organizing Tips Published on April 28, 2016

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    About Erika

    Erika Bragdon is a second-generation homeschooling mom with 3 kids at home and 1 in college. She lives in the beautiful hills of New Hampshire on a small farm and loves writing, baking, nature, and sharing flower essences and more natural solutions with moms.

    Comments

    1. Julia Nicole says

      April 28, 2016 at 12:33 pm

      Excellent info here, I am currently doing some research and found exactly what I was looing for.

      Reply
    2. Crystal says

      April 29, 2016 at 12:25 pm

      I’m trying to train my family to be better about organizing, but it’s tough. I love the idea of labeling both the container and its location. No denying where it should go!

      Reply
    3. Brandy says

      April 29, 2016 at 6:58 pm

      This post is being read just in time as I think I will be moving my pantry area (that has quickly become an office storage space) to allow for actual food storage like a pantry is suppose to be for. I am going to use some of your tips!

      Reply
    4. Amanda says

      April 29, 2016 at 7:27 pm

      I love your pantry! I use glass jars but am in need of more organization since moving. I love how you label everything too.

      Reply
    5. William Sweeney says

      April 30, 2016 at 10:32 am

      My wife is big into containers and labeling in our kitchen!! She would love those containers from Walmart, so much easier when you can see what you need in the cabinet.

      Reply
    6. Andrew says

      May 2, 2016 at 12:20 pm

      We definitely need food storage containers in our house. All the different size boxes just get shoved around and don’t stay well organized!

      Reply
    7. Alinda says

      December 26, 2016 at 12:32 am

      Thanks for these tips. interesting for me to learn more about Organizing Food Storage Areas in my Kitchen. Thanks for these great ideas.

      Reply
    8. Jordan Miner says

      May 18, 2018 at 10:20 pm

      My wife was talking to me about wanting to get some kitchen storage tools that we could use. I’m glad you talked about how you can use a label maker to help with kitchen storage. I’m going to have to look into some different kitchen storage solutions and see what we can find!

      Reply

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