Best way to store pulses, pasta, couscous, nuts, seeds etc once the bag is open?

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My kitchen cupboards are a bit chaotic and I really want to have a good sort out and put a better system in place

Lots of cooking ingredients (as per thread title) come in soft plastic bags which may or may not have a resealable sticky tab. I do have a few clips (think they came from Ikea) which I can use to secure bags which have been opened but cupboards still very messy and never easy to find what I'm looking for.

Does anyone have a system that works and keeps things neat and tidy? I do have some larder space where I keep tins etc but most items will need to go in a tall kitchen cupboard which has wire baskets and slides in and out on rails (hope that makes sense!)

Any suggestions welcome!

Storage boxes! You can get vacuum seal ones that are stackable from places like Homesense

I have the oxo pop storage tubs. They are really nice and stack together.

I just have a few of the bigger ones for pasta and rice

Mine go in a pull out larder.

I have a lot of recycled glass coffee jars, very useful and cheap.

Nuts once opened go in the freezer.

Kilner jars in the pull out larder thing. DH cuts the cooking instructions off the packet and sticks it to the bottom of the jar just in case we ever forget how to cook rice

That image pleases me so much and I have no idea why 😦

I use kilner jars. I don’t decant though, as otherwise you lose track of how old the contents are. Just put the whole package in a jar.

What I want are ones that are exactly the right size to just drop in a standard bag of flour etc in, still in the packet.

I guess there probably is no "standard" so an unreasonable expectation, but one day I'm going to brazen it out and end up in Ikea/Lakeland/John Lewis with a bag of shopping trying all the boxes out.

Actually, our local Lakeland ladies would probably be up for that.

Any jars! I just save jars from olives, coffee etc.

I do buy chalkboard labels just in case I forget how to tell my couscous from my cashews...

We turn over nuts fairly quickly (mostly veggie, much curry loving) otherwise agree with PP to freeze them.

Random jars: jam, coffee, lentils, Nutella etc.

And as a pp I cut out cooking instructions (for eg quinoa) and sellotape them to the outside.

Not aesthetically pleasing, but I can live with that.

Thanks everyone, especially @Fluffycloudsfloatinginthesky - I love the look of those Oxo containers!!

Stackable is the way to go I think as I don't have enough storage space if I put everything in jars which can't easily be stacked

Buy more IKEA clips!*
The original packages were perfectly fine for however many months the ingredients were for sale. Just snip off the top 2 cm and fold them back on themselves until they’re a solid brick again. My food cupboard is deep but I use shoe boxes to categorize (baking, tins, packets, sauces, breakfast). Pasta is in a larger basket.

*I use them for re-closing freezer packages, biscuits, on bags of detergent, on plastic bags for wet swimming costumes, dog treats on walks, anything…
I also know my stores are depleted if the klippits basket is full.