How do you store herbs, spices, pasta, rice, sugar, flour, nuts, dried fruit?

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I'm fed up of rummaging around in the cupboard and things falling over and pouring out.

Any suggestions?

TIA

I use formula milk tins, thoroughly washed and dried, then painted with a tester pot of paint so they match, labelled with a permanent marker pen.
Everything matches, bugs are prevented, the small tins store about 500g of most things, the large tins store 1kg. Best of all, DS still gets his Wysoy on prescription despite being 10 years old, so I have a ready constant free supply of containers.

Pantry porn link
How I worship and loathe these organised souls.

Has anyone seen any very large but pretty storage for flour, pasta etc? I've been looking for a while but not found the right thing.

I keep about 3kg of pasta in a large straight square based glass vase if that helps. It doesn't matter that it doesn't have a lid as it is on the surface and regularly used.
I keep 1kg flour in a large wysoy tub, wouldn't want to store in much larger quantities as it goes off in my house.

Thanks, but I would prefer something airtight as we live near fields and occasionally get mice. The best thing I have found is enamel pet food bins, but I'm nit sure whether they are airtight.. I guess I should email and ask.

I have a spice drawer with Lakeland baskets in and labelled jars. A drawer for jams and condiments. A shelf for nuts/seeds/dried fruit/baking aids. A shelf for pasta. A shelf for rice. A separate cupboard for flour and sugar of all types.

"LocknLock boxes. I love them."

Same here, they are so practical. If space is at a premium make sure you use square containers and not round.

Thanks Olivia, drooling over those larders :)

I have stuff in kilner/parfait/ikea jars and spices in small glass jars. My dream is to have a proper larder so I can see everything properly, rather than have it jammed in one or two cupboards.

We have this www.lakeland.co.uk/23098/4-Tier-Over-Door-Storage-Rack

Loooovely All the little packets lined up in a neat row with wooden pegs keeping them reasonably closed.

Jars of spices tend to fall over though, so we put some cheap Ikea spice racks ( www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40070185/ ) on one of the shelves to give a flat surface for the jars to sit on.

I have wanted a proper pantry for years, but did not have the room. So I cleared out a floor to ceiling cupboard in the utility room, put some new shelves in. Now I store everything in glass Kilner jars. Looks beautiful.

Wow, those pantries are with added drool. I clearly have not been trying hard enough!