A Little Organization Please!

From This

To This

Today I went grocery shopping and went to put away my groceries but froze when I opened the pantry cabinet.  How can I put new fresh items in such a cluttered mess.  I can't make heads or tails what's in there.  I decided to clean them out and my 11 year old son eagerly volunteered to help.  (He's such a big helper!)

We went shelf by shelf, and pulled everything out.  We started at the top, in the snack cabinet.  Opened bags of chips and cookies.  Ugh!  It goes stale and then nobody wants to eat it.  I don't blame them.  I used my handy dandy Food Saver www.foodsaver.com.  It is so great for sealing anything and keeping food fresh!  Anything that was opened went into a bag and got sealed.  There were movie size boxes of candy that I placed into small single serve bags and sealed.  These are great when we are heading out the door to a game or for school lunches.

Next the baking shelf.  Oh so much stuff but who knows what's lurking in the back of those shelves.  Out with the boxes and packages and in with the Tupperware containers www.tupperware.com.   These are especially great for keeping little bugs out of the flour and pancake mixes.

We finished the cabinet and tossed lots of unneeded boxes and bags.  Now there is room to see and get to the things I have on hand.  The only thing left is to start the oven and get to baking!!