Do you ever go to your pantry to get an ingredient out and you’ve got to start the big hunt to find it. What a waste of time that is.
This is where it shows the advantage of an ordered pantry. It makes sense and saves a lot of time to have things that are related together.
For example the top shelf of our pantry contains foods that I can’t eat because I am allergic to wheat, gluten and honey. That way Mick can reach his cereals and spreads etc easily since he is taller than me.
A shelf which is readily accessible for me contains such things as tea, coffee, powdered milk and similar items. Because Mick likes a variety in his tea we have a huge variety of herbal teas. I drink herbal tea too or decaffeinated tea but I stick mainly to Rosehip, Lemon and Ginger or Chamomile. That same shelf also contains my gluten free cereals.
Another shelf will have ingredients that go in recipes like lentils, kidney beans, tinned tomatoes or corn, stock cubes and an assortment of gluten free chutneys or pickles plus other ingredients and spices. Those spices that are used almost daily stand in large jars on the shelf above our kitchen sink. My son cannot believe the amount of chili flakes I have, but I use them heaps.
The floor of the pantry is left for heavy things like oil, and tinned foods like beetroot. It also contains the Mixmaster. I’d like to be able to put that somewhere else, since I don’t use it all that often these days. But our kitchen is not overly endowed with storage space and cupboards and there’s not really any way to change that. I probably will use it even less now I have my magic wand, so I might end up rethinking whether it is needed or can go somewhere else for the rare occasions it is required.
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