To ask how to organise my food cupboard? (Pic attached).

[LimaLemur]

Posting for traffic - please help!

I live in a flatshare with 4 other people, and we have a fairly small and narrow kitchen.

I have a food cupboard with two shelves, where I’ve got a whole load of different things (tins, packets, boxes of all shapes and sizes).

I’m struggling to keep it organised. Any tips on how I can organise it easily and maintain this? There’s a pic of it in all its untidy glory - please help me Kon-Mari my food cupboard so it sparks joy rather than shame

I have a similarly small area to store so watching with interest.
Only thing I can suggest is separate into things you use regularly and others. The tall less used items at the back. After that I’m not sure.

Measure the cupboards very carefully and then see if you could buy boxes or baskets that would fit.
Put similar things in the same basket - eg, pasta, baking ingredients, spices etc.
Buy a can dispenser for tinned goods. They waste a bit of space, but stop your tins getting out of control.

Plastic storage containers of different sizes, with and without lids. One for biscuits and bars, another for chocolate, etc. Containers with lids can stack up. Jars in another container, tins in another, etc.

Cafepod things - group them together to the side (what are they?). Then things you use less to the back, and things you use frequently to the front.

Get a mason jar for your flour (you don't want weevils), and some kind of biscuits container for those digestives. No one wants a soft digestive.
Group tins together on the bottom shelf.
Do you have a fruit bowl?

This might help give you some ideas.

Thanks for your ideas so far! I don’t have a fruit bowl - I’ve thought about getting one but think it would take up too much space.

Fruit bowl in your bedroom (or in the lounge if you don't mind sharing your easy peelers).

Good idea about the lounge - my bedroom’s quite small so don’t have any space in there.

You could also get an under shelf storage basket like this to hang off the top shelf for smaller items so they don’t get lost amongst the other stuff. You could probably get one cheaper at a pound shop or b &m

www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-Housewares-Under-Storage-Basket/dp/B0086VIGYC/ref=asc_df_B0086VIGYC/?hvlocphy=9045255&linkCode=df0&hvptwo&psc=1&psc=1&hvnetw=g&hvadid=256142088868&hvpone&hvlocint&th=1&hvpos=1o1&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&hvtargid=pla-422078262685&hvrand=11700352149930041126

Look in Wilko or Boyes for cheap lock n lock style containers. Essential for your flour but also useful for things like the chocolate and other small packets, that you can stand on end in the box, rather than have them scattered. You can tip your coffee pods into one, so you don't have an assortment of half used boxes.

Also, try to group things by shape a little - so boxes together, tins together etc. That makes it easier to find what you have because you know that only a certain section of the cupboard is likely to have a tin of beans in it.

I have a really useless cupboard with a massive flimsy shelf that can't even take the weight of bottles, so I sympathise.

Forage baskets that you can pull out to access items. £ shop is your friend.

IKEA do these little mini shelves that sit in the cupboard, so you can have things underneath them and things on top of them