Kitchen Organizing Ideas

  • Place wire shelves on legs on the deeper shelves to double the storage space

  • Turn a clean glass pie plate upside down over your recipe to keep it from being splattered.

  • Stand your cookie sheets and other pans on their edges to save room

  • Store any dishes or equipment that you only use once a year in the basement to free up space in the kitchen

  • Create a pantry in the basement if your kitchen is small, to store extra supplies of canned and paper goods

  • Keep a running shopping list on the fridge door

  • Create a baking center, a cooking center, a food storage center and keep all the related items at each center

  • Keep a plastic container in the freezer to collect leftover vegetables. When it is full, thaw and blend together, then freeze in ice cube trays to use for soups.

  • Line up your spices alphabetically so that they'll be easy to locate.

  • Post a list of all the spices on hand on the inside of the cupboard door. That way you'll know at a glance if you have what a recipe calls for.

  • Another use for the inside of a cupboard door is to display a food substitution chart and metric conversion chart Cooking Substitutes


While you are waiting for the water to boil why not choose one of these jobs. The whole kitchen can be sparkling clean by working at it 15 minutes at a time.

15 Minute Kitchen Jobs

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There was no extra expense here - all we did was group items together - crackers, cake mixes, puddings, snacks, cereal. We put labels on the front edges of the shelves (not pictured) so everyone would return things to the proper place. When it became habit the labels were removed.

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