Can relate to living out and feeding a family! We live 35 miles from any grocery store, 100 miles from a Walmart and 200 miles from a COSTCO. I have a suggestion--date your buckets with the Ball washable labels. Always use the entire bucket before restocking. At the least, remove old contents to a large container, add new and return the older stock to top for first consumption. First in, first out. There are also 4 gal. food grade buckets which are square. They store in a tighter, less wasteful space in your pantry. After raising my large family, 10 children, I have a lot of experience in prepping and cooking. I am now near 70, and love to see young families living and learning. I hope this helps. New to your channel. Good luck and God bless. 😊☀️ P.S. Your refrigerator door looks like it can be reversed. If it can, you will find that opening it inward not into your door will be a lot handier. ❤
I love that you don't go for the newest hottest way of storing items, you think of what will work for you and then improve upon it as you learn and grow.
I honestly love that you are completely transparent about your sponsors and what part of the video is being sponsored by them. I used to wonder what “a small portion” meant, but I LOVE seeing the timer at the bottom of the screen. It feels super refreshing!
I’m so glad that you appreciate it! I truly value my viewers’ input and hearing that this is some thing that you appreciate is great feedback! I love being able to work with sponsors so that I can continue to put free content out on my TH-cam channel.
We grew up using plastic buckets to store bulk dry goods. You can actually store some foods in them for a few years if you use dry ice to push out the air before sealing them. We have a few buckets in the garage with oats, flour, sugar, and rice. Maybe for the bottom row you could do longer term food storage.
Love the de-influencing ❤ Two things- those lids break if you stack buckets on top of them so don’t do that! I broke 12 before i learned that. Second I’m one of those that those FIFO can rolling things are my favorite! I have 10 of the smaller shelf style ones you had and i have two of the big ones that are stand-alone meant for food storage and the bottom holds our number 10 cans. The key for me is have my recipes/meals stream lined to use what they hold in the amounts they hold. I LOVE being able to just count how many of each variety of can i need to pick up to refill the spaces and just buy them and reload and i know i have everything fully restocked and nothing going bad.
Love that-how many times a day you access a room, is how many times annually You should declutter/approach that room. Great wisdom. That original pantry episode was my favourite messy to minimal episode from your previous house!
Canned Goods Storage: I used to work in a Kroger-affiliate bakery. We would order in individual-size pastries (tarts, eclairs, etc), which we would individually-package for public sale. I brought home many of the boxes these were delivered in. Not all were clean, but I would snag the clean ones and bring them home. They were only about 2-3 inches high, with hinged lids. I store my canned items laying flat in these boxes. One box is all chicken noodle soup, another all tomato soup, another kidney beans, another Classico pasta sauce, etc. Sorted by food item, I can mark on the box edge what is in them and the boxes can be stacked on shelves. Leave space for two or more boxes at the top of the stack, and you can pull out the box/content you need.
I really appreciate your videos. My dad is in his last days, and these help me get off my butt and get things done when I want to sit around and completely check out.
I agree with you about the lid rings. They are so difficult to put on. I had my husband help too 😂 but I love those lids because once that ring is on, it is so much nicer to use! As for the flour, I only buy a couple 5 lb bags of it & store the one I’m using in a glass gallon jar on my hutch & then the rest in my cabinet. I buy bulk wheat berries instead of bulk flour because the berries can last many many years, but flour goes bad within a couple years. I always keep a couple bags of flour on hand though, and I freeze my flour for a day before I store it so I don’t get bugs in it. I store my wheat berries in the 5 gallon buckets, and I have 1 glass gallon jar full in my kitchen for immediate use. When I need to use them I grind them into fresh flour for my sourdough or anything else I need it for. My grain mill was an investment but it has been so worth it. ❤
I have reorganized my pantry a ga-zillion times and finally I have the perfect system for me. It's simple and looks nice. Your pantry looks great. You did a great job.
Thank you so much for your content! I used to get really bad anxiety when my house was a mess and watching your videos has helped ALOT. (Plus my husband has ADHD, which does not help). Really appreciate all your hard work and showing that as you say you live in your home so it will not allways be perfect. We also live on a farm so I completey agree that baking from scratch is just easier than driving to the store everyday! ❤
So realistic and yet so satisfying! I believe you can switch the handles on your second fridge to the other side if it’s a bit inconvenient to access 😊
I always clean out my refrigerator and pantry once a week. I do it the day before garbage pick up, and as I clean and organize I make a list of whatever needs to be replenished
Also, I just want to encourage you to stock your pantry "grocery store" style. Everything upright and labels forward. It really helps with mental inventory. I also agree with you, function over fashion is just fine.
I don't know what it is but you are so sparkly, almost glowing with such a positive, happy aura in this video. I loved it. I hope you really feel that way!!
☀️ Thanks Natalie, I love watching your videos. Your attitude towards not making the pantry picture perfect but rather family functional for your specific circumstance is great!
You might benefit from a trash can or two in your pantry / laundry room, depending on how recyclables are sorted in your area :) That way there is a quick and easy way for you and your family to get rid of empty packaging on a day to day basis.
@@jennyeddins7809 Having trash cans right outside the back door might be too far away, especially for the kids. I definitely wouldn't want to open an outside door to throw away some packages on a Saturday morning while standing in the pantry barefoot in my pyjamas on a cold snowy winter day. The ultimate goal here is relief for Natalie in the form of a pantry that stays organized longer and is less overwhelming when it's finally time to get it tidy. These huge bulky packagings can be overwhelming because our brain registers them as big items and lets the job to take care of the pantry appear bigger than it actually is. Having the trash cans right where the food is stored makes throwing the packaging away as easy as tossing it back on the shelves. Even if something isn't thrown away immediately, it can be done any time someone is popping in there to get a snack and realizes there is trash. It falls into the category "store it where you use it". Every place where trash is created regularly should have a trash can (or more, depending on the type of trash that is usually created there and your local waste system). Trash cans for your pantry don't have to be fancy, a huge cardboard box for cardboard packaging and a trash can for plastics or even just a trash bag that is hung up on a wall will do the job. We have trash cans in several rooms of our home, even though we live in an appartment. I highly recommend it, it makes tidying so much easier! They minimize the redundant part of throwing stuff away that should have been thrown away immediately and just stayed there because someone was to lazy to carry the item to a different room. The only challenge Natalie might face is to integrate the trash cans in a way that packaging can be thrown away while standing in front of the shelves while simultaneous making sure that food cannot fall from the shelves into the trash cans. But as she plans to redo the room, I am pretty sure she will come up with a great solution for her and her family :)
☀️As a soon to be mom (due in July) and sorta new to being a wife (2 years this September) I love watching your videos and getting inspired to organize my home! You’re one of my favorite influencers ❤️
Honey does crystallized, and it is very heavy. My recommendation is to get a food safe 5-gallon water jug. You can get some that are more square, and you can get a spigot that is good for more viscous liquids like honey. I got one over 2 years ago, and frankly even with our family of five we have not finished it off yet. It has crystallized, and my current plan is to leave it in the car during the summer and add a little more water at that point.
Thanks for de-influencing us! Lol love it. Do many people think it's all or nothing with organization but it's not! You do such a good job of encouraging us to work with what we have. Thanks!
I like your bucket idea. I do bake a lot, so I have a big bag of flour. And I will use your bucket idea. You may print a big font for oat, rice, flour and etc, to cover that large logo, make a more organized look.
I love the realistic pantry declutter! I use bins for storing bulk spices that I decant into easy to use jars, and to store less frequently used items. I've also put lazy susans at the corners of my pantry shelves for my oils, vinegars, sauces, etc. I have the problem where if I can't see it, I forget it's there, which means I lose things at the back of my pantry and it goes bad. The lazy susans and clear containers help me see what I have so much better and we waste so much less food!
Your buckets are awesome! You should look into Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers for storing more Rice, beans, flour etc. also DE (diatomaceous earth) to put in the back up foods like these if you are going to be storing them for years. I think your labels are perfect! Your whole pantry looks amazing now. Do you have a basement to store more?
A similar can organizer has worked for me, I have 2 side by side, and I use Dollar Tree cutting boards to line the wire shelving so that everything is stable. I despise the wire shelving and would change that if I could. I don't believe everything requires a bin and it does depend on how you access things. Bins and baskets can be helpful some times and also a hinderance if you over do it. Love the video.
As a soon to be first time mom, I’m loving the decluttering and spring cleaning! My nesting motivation is peaking right now, and although my new apartment is much smaller than your beautiful home I’m still trying to make systems that function just like your mindset! You’re the best. Looking forward to what’s coming next! 🌞
I decant very little. The original package has the expiration date on it and often cooking times and a useful recipe idea. As long as I can reseal it effectively and access the contents easily I just leave it in whatever it came in. How pretty it looks (or not) really doesn’t matter to me because it’s all in cupboards with doors on, not open shelves. I keep a notepad inside the cupboard door to write a list when I use up the last of something or move onto the last pack.
I loved these videos. My favourite! Great space, I prep but have a very tiny home so need to have a regular strategy for organising and rotating. IF you were to talk more about prepping and organising foods and household items it would be so helpful to us all with current events unfolding. Nothing crazy but just a regular family getting organised.
I actually do use can organizers with success. There are 3 things I buy by the flat, Coconut milk, pumpkin puree, and olives. Each one gets its own rack, and it is a good solution for an awkward floor space in my pantry closet that isn't easily accessible otherwise.
Hey Natalie! Welcome to the bucket organization! We love it around here. Just wanted to make a suggestion on your “honey bucket”, we buy honey by the gallon from some friends of ours here locally.. and I will suggest you to get yourself a gallon glass jar. I wish I could send you a picture of what I am talking about but I’m sure you probably know what I am talking about. Sometimes you can get some good apple juice in those kind of jars or bottle (not sure what to call it) but it is so much easier to pour into whatever we want it on. Less mess, and if it gets hard, you know how honey can crystallize, we can just put the glass jar in hot water not having to worry about toxins bleaching. I found my gallon jar at a thrift shop. Btw, love your videos! Your home decor! Wish I could meet you in person one day! Blessings to you and your family! Happy spring! 🙋🏻♀️ 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
I like those bin clips, and I just put a piece of Scotch tape on and write with Sharpie on that so the white stays white. Not "janky" at all. That's how I do playroom storage when I need the cube bins.
I have the metal can rollers that hold quite a lot of cans. I have very narrow deep pantry cabinets, and I found if I put a shelf in the garage (which is steps off of the kitchen), I easily access the cans.
I found you tru the pantry organization in 2020 I didn’t even have a pantry and when my husky saw your pantry he said. Im going to bile you one and now I have a pantry that I love is not Pinterest worthy but I love it. And I use the same bickers and lids and I use glass jars to kept the food fresh and I label everything with tape that way I can wash it and used for something also. I don’t recommend to wri on the bickers or the lids because that especial items can tun out and you can used for something also and you can wash them and live that Sistem because is so chip. I did order labels but they did not work because they are not washable.
I wish I had all my dollars back from the dysfunctional dollar tree bins I bought after watching DT TH-cam videos 😂 LIVE and LEARN! Lol when you simplify some spaces they don’t always need containers after I’ve decluttered most of the items! Declutter first and organize last! ☀️#premierefam
Hi! I know I'm late to commenting, but I usually save your videos for the weekends :) About the stacked buckets idea: Just keep in mind that they might become less accessible that way. If you have double the buckets of each item, you might not need to get to the bottom one, but for the top one you need even more space on top to get into the bin or have to pull the whole stack towards you. That might be even more annoying^^ But I guess you have to try it out and see what works for you :)
I’ve always been pretty organized and mostly a minimalist. The beautiful pantries are lovely but just not practical enough for me lol I love that you embrace decluttering and organizing from a common sense practical approach!!
We are about to start day 2 of spring cleaning in our house. This was just the motivation I needed to get back on the ball after a looooong day yesterday. Thank you! Our laundry room doubles as storage for everything home maintenance related (light bulbs, extra paint, tools, cleaning supplies, etc) as well as being the main entry point of our home. It can be so frustrating when it gets to be a big mess (80% of the time) , and I’m struggling to find a system that keeps that from happening.
Thank you for saying that bins can be a hindrance in a pantry sometimes! I dont have any bins in my pantry because it is the worlds smallest pantry so I hardly have any space for food as it is!
☀️ I got SO EXCITED when you pulled out the 5-gallon buckets with the spinning gamma lids!! They are game-changers! I keep All-purpose Flour, Bread Flour, Jasmine Rice, California calrose rice, Brown Rice, Salt, Sugar, Roll Oats, and Pinto Beans in my buckets. I have mini ones too that I keep loose dried pasta (eg. Penne noodles) in. Like you, we have been stocking our “emergency/ homestead pantry” over the years. I bought my buckets over 8 years ago and only had a couple to start with! I had to laugh about Weston coming in and doing the bin lids, because that’s EXACTLY what happened with me and my husband. 🤪 I actually do use a can roller and have used it for over a decade! In fact I bought a second one several years ago! You have to dedicate only ONE kind of item per slot. For instance, I think I have 8 slots on mine now. Each one only carries a single kind of item: canned Tomato sauce, then next to it is Diced Tomatoes 🍅, then next to that is Black Beans 🫘, then Refried Beans has its own slot, and so forth. No mixing and matching into the slots or the cans that don’t match get lost forever. I keep Coconut Milk, Kidney Beans, Great Northern Beans (for white chilis), canned Triple Beans, Canned Corn, etc. but each has their own slot. That’s the only way to store it really, is to use it for what you go through the most. Edit: I USED to keep canned “Cream Of’s” but the glutamates really affect me as well! And my children. I am able to use some Organic “Cream of Celery” and gluten-free “Cream of Chicken” and those have really help. They are more expensive so it’s harder for me to stock up, but they are so much better for my health, during the occasional times I use them for recipes. ❤
Whole wheat flour goes rancid because of the wheat germ. What I do is buy white flour, wheat fiber (does not go rancid and can be stored in the pantry) and wheat germ that I store in the freezer. I mix them when I am going to bake bread.
Am amazed how much you stocked up for same items, like same cleaner, oat and flour etc. Wonder how long u take to finish that big cans of oats and flour wow 🤩
These videos inspire me to get moving, I'm watching this at 19.47 CAT and already thinking of a to do list for my cleaning supplies and groceries and how I can make the spaces neater. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
we make a grocery list but aren't always the best about sticking just to the list, as we see something we need but forgot to put on. we know our general meat choices and so we are really good about sticking to those things, we buy more when the price is good, and settle for just enough when it's not. but as far as planning a meal plan, we are not good about that, I think i am the only person who could make that work, but it's a lot of work with a family of 5.
Have you thought about changing the handle on your fridge door in your laundry room/pantry? It seems like it would make it easier access if the door opened from right to left
I noticed that when my washer and dryer were stacked I wasn't able to lay junk down on top of them. We even removed a cabinet to stack them. A year ago we put them side by side and it never fails, they are covered in stuff that needs to go out to our storage barn. Drives me nuts. But we're getting ready to buy a new set that will be heavier duty, my husband is a contractor with very dirty clothes, and so they will be top loading. I don't know what I'm going to do about it. Lol. Worse is that our laundry/ mud room is the main entrance to the house thanks to how our house was built and how the driveway is set up. Everyone sees the messiest room in our house
My youngest son’s birthday is November and the Halloween candy always went in the party bags for his birthday parties. Then Easter chocolates were used for s’mores when camping during the summer months
Hey! Check out Azure Standard. They are a food co op for mainly organic and bulk foods (not exclusively). You should have a drop point in your area they are local to Oregon but deliver all over the us.
Enjoy seeing more of your personality come out, not that you were faking or hiding at all just that you’re leaving it in the videos more i.e (adhd is so fun 🎶😂) also love the idea of function over fancy and using what you have for now, great video!
I really appreciate your function over fancy motto here. I too feel that I’m just not a basket/container decanter. I do love the look and I use them for the highest shelves for disposable products and my cake decorating supplies that I don’t access regularly but has a lot of different pieces. But for things like foods I often forget about it and it expires. I love to just do a quick glance and grab and putting it away is much faster and I need efficiency in my life. I also used to do groceries without a plan and I felt like we’d come home sometimes with random ingredients and it was like a jumble puzzle trying to find things that actually worked together. Meal planning with a grocery list has really cut down on that.
Chocolate chips in the freezer perhaps? That's where we've always kept ours. Lazy Susan cabinets used to drive me crazy too. Just curious, is it less stressful for you to have such a large amount of dry goods rather than say, just buying flour, sugar, oats one at a time? No guilt, no pressure, I'm praying for you to feel well today 🙏 ♥️
Looks awesome.I agree function first.Here a thought put your baking soda in bucket.Im going to do that.I use a lot for cleaning.have a great week.love you videos.Agree stacking them is good Quality of king Arthur flour is the best I have been using 30 yrs.it support local farmers and other things.I don't use anything else.your doing good 😊💐🤗🙏
I'd love it if you shared some of your favorite baking recipes! I have one go to cake recipe and other than that I sometimes try different cookie recipes but I rarely feel inspired to try anything else.
I just took a food senstivity test and what came up as highly sensitive was...egg whites! I immediately thought of you, and I love that you show interesting alternates--like the Red Mill Egg Replacer!! Didn't know that existed, so I'll definitely be buying some of that. Appreciate that content now so much!
I’m a few years into cooking egg-free, and I initially couldn’t use the powdered egg replacers because they usually contain potato starch. I found two things that helped: 1) Liquid vegan egg replacers (carried in the refrigerated vegan or egg section several of my grocery stores now); and 2) Recipes from Mommy’s Home Cooking blog - she developed recipes that don’t need an egg replacer product. I love her cornbread, but need to tweak her banana bread recipe for my GF flour. Her sugar cookies were good too.
Since I saw you pass on the condensed soups, can we PLEASE get an updated chicken bite back recipe?! I’ve been thinking I want to learn how to make it without, and I know you must’ve mastered it by now
In enjoy your Vlogs the kitchen one where what you said about taken things as slow as you want and only do what you want to do its so hard for me sometimes to get my self motivated to even start but wants I done it makes me feel so much better
Nice pantry fix...looking so much better. I got two of those buckets during the pandemic, they were hard to find and hard to close. You can also add to your pantry Carnation dried milk since the grocery stores are far from you-just a thought.
I always learn something (or more) with your videos. Today I learned my favorite new word! "Janky"!! I will be using that for sure!! Thanks Natalie for your time and your great tips! Have a great rest of your week! 💛
It looks great and fancy bins are not budget friendly for a prepper pantry. I have the buckets like you have and I Love the Gamma lids. I however do put thing's in glass jars like Pasta and beans. Nothing fancy just wide mouth half gallon ball jars.
☀️In search of pantry inspiration that original pantry video was the first of your videos I had ever seen! So fun to be on this decluttering journey “with you”😂 Keep up the amazing work sis!
Your conversation with Weston is pretty much EXACTLY like my husband and I, it gave me a laugh! He's just so much stronger than I am - I stubbornly put on one or two and had to basically put my body weight on it and hop..... Thanks for sharing, Natalie :)
I remember that pantry declutter video was one of the first videos of yours I watched when I found your channel and binge watched it for several hours. 😅Time has flown and I'm still loving your channel. 💕💕😊
Not to poo poo on your plans of a stacked washer/dryer but as a fellow short lady who had a stacked combo in an old apartment, I found it to be really difficult to truly reach without a step stool and that just felt like a big old pain in the butt. They’re great space savers but being short makes it a lot tougher. Just a thought! 💛☀️
☀️I have a can organizer in my overflow pantry and it works great for us 😊 I love those buckets you got! If I had a space for that I would totally do that!
We buy super bulk like that too. I need to do the buckets but just haven’t made it a priority. I did learn to freeze my flour for a few days before adding it into a container to prevent bugs hatching. We had one bag that infested our whole pantry
☀️ Hi Natalie! I love pantry organization videos! 🌸 The pantry looks great and functional! Love how you don’t feel it needs to look Pinterest worthy to have the finished look. 🌸
The bucket and Gamma lid combo is fun, I wish I had the space for them! but what were you doing at Tractor Supply? They were bought out. :( So was Bragg's, Lehmann's...
Can organizations is easy if you don’t put several different things in one slot. It also keeps the oldest forward. But it could be the 25 years of working in a grocery store that helps me.
was curious how you organize to ensure that you use everything before the expiration date. Im sure most of those things have such a long shelf life so it might not even matter. But, do you put the newest to the back so you’re grabbing the “older” ones first much like a grocery store I guess, or do you go through everything and then make one large purchase? Buying in bulk doesn’t fit our lifestyle right now and I don’t know a ton about it so its always cool to hear you talk about those things! Side bar: Really cool to see how your systems have changed as your family and your space grows and changes! Just goes to show that there is no one perfect method!
Can relate to living out and feeding a family! We live 35 miles from any grocery store, 100 miles from a Walmart and 200 miles from a COSTCO. I have a suggestion--date your buckets with the Ball washable labels. Always use the entire bucket before restocking. At the least, remove old contents to a large container, add new and return the older stock to top for first consumption. First in, first out. There are also 4 gal. food grade buckets which are square. They store in a tighter, less wasteful space in your pantry. After raising my large family, 10 children, I have a lot of experience in prepping and cooking. I am now near 70, and love to see young families living and learning. I hope this helps. New to your channel. Good luck and God bless. 😊☀️
P.S. Your refrigerator door looks like it can be reversed. If it can, you will find that opening it inward not into your door will be a lot handier. ❤
I love that you don't go for the newest hottest way of storing items, you think of what will work for you and then improve upon it as you learn and grow.
Thank you for this affirming comment! ♥️
ditto! functional first because we can always add the pretty when we know what's working
Love making it work with what I have first and not chasing the fads. Natalie’s channel gives me the confidence to do that. Thanks Natalie!
I honestly love that you are completely transparent about your sponsors and what part of the video is being sponsored by them. I used to wonder what “a small portion” meant, but I LOVE seeing the timer at the bottom of the screen. It feels super refreshing!
I’m so glad that you appreciate it! I truly value my viewers’ input and hearing that this is some thing that you appreciate is great feedback! I love being able to work with sponsors so that I can continue to put free content out on my TH-cam channel.
“Function over fancy” and “it doesn’t have to be beautiful to work for you” might be my new approach to organizing my house! Love that!
We grew up using plastic buckets to store bulk dry goods. You can actually store some foods in them for a few years if you use dry ice to push out the air before sealing them. We have a few buckets in the garage with oats, flour, sugar, and rice. Maybe for the bottom row you could do longer term food storage.
Love the de-influencing ❤
Two things- those lids break if you stack buckets on top of them so don’t do that! I broke 12 before i learned that. Second I’m one of those that those FIFO can rolling things are my favorite! I have 10 of the smaller shelf style ones you had and i have two of the big ones that are stand-alone meant for food storage and the bottom holds our number 10 cans. The key for me is have my recipes/meals stream lined to use what they hold in the amounts they hold. I LOVE being able to just count how many of each variety of can i need to pick up to refill the spaces and just buy them and reload and i know i have everything fully restocked and nothing going bad.
Love that-how many times a day you access a room, is how many times annually
You should declutter/approach that room. Great wisdom. That original pantry episode was my favourite messy to minimal episode from your previous house!
Love how your pantry turned out! You are such a sweet genuine Christian woman that I definitely appreciate here on TH-cam. God bless your family!
Canned Goods Storage:
I used to work in a Kroger-affiliate bakery. We would order in individual-size pastries (tarts, eclairs, etc), which we would individually-package for public sale.
I brought home many of the boxes these were delivered in. Not all were clean, but I would snag the clean ones and bring them home. They were only about 2-3 inches high, with hinged lids.
I store my canned items laying flat in these boxes. One box is all chicken noodle soup, another all tomato soup, another kidney beans, another Classico pasta sauce, etc. Sorted by food item, I can mark on the box edge what is in them and the boxes can be stacked on shelves. Leave space for two or more boxes at the top of the stack, and you can pull out the box/content you need.
I really appreciate your videos. My dad is in his last days, and these help me get off my butt and get things done when I want to sit around and completely check out.
I would love to see a weekly or monthly meal plan from you!
Yes and also how she does her grocery shopping and how often etc
I agree with you about the lid rings. They are so difficult to put on. I had my husband help too 😂 but I love those lids because once that ring is on, it is so much nicer to use! As for the flour, I only buy a couple 5 lb bags of it & store the one I’m using in a glass gallon jar on my hutch & then the rest in my cabinet. I buy bulk wheat berries instead of bulk flour because the berries can last many many years, but flour goes bad within a couple years. I always keep a couple bags of flour on hand though, and I freeze my flour for a day before I store it so I don’t get bugs in it. I store my wheat berries in the 5 gallon buckets, and I have 1 glass gallon jar full in my kitchen for immediate use. When I need to use them I grind them into fresh flour for my sourdough or anything else I need it for. My grain mill was an investment but it has been so worth it. ❤
I have reorganized my pantry a ga-zillion times and finally I have the perfect system for me. It's simple and looks nice. Your pantry looks great. You did a great job.
Thank you so much for your content! I used to get really bad anxiety when my house was a mess and watching your videos has helped ALOT. (Plus my husband has ADHD, which does not help). Really appreciate all your hard work and showing that as you say you live in your home so it will not allways be perfect. We also live on a farm so I completey agree that baking from scratch is just easier than driving to the store everyday! ❤
So realistic and yet so satisfying!
I believe you can switch the handles on your second fridge to the other side if it’s a bit inconvenient to access 😊
Thanks for showing that everything doesn't have to match in order to have a nice decluttered pantry!
I always clean out my refrigerator and pantry once a week. I do it the day before garbage pick up, and as I clean and organize I make a list of whatever needs to be replenished
Also, I just want to encourage you to stock your pantry "grocery store" style. Everything upright and labels forward. It really helps with mental inventory. I also agree with you, function over fashion is just fine.
I DO! My kids are the ones who come in and spin the jars and labels around 😂 it’s an ADHD thing apparently!
I don't know what it is but you are so sparkly, almost glowing with such a positive, happy aura in this video. I loved it. I hope you really feel that way!!
I love the fact that you put a shelf over the doorway for extra storage. I wouldn’t have thought of that.
☀️ Thanks Natalie, I love watching your videos. Your attitude towards not making the pantry picture perfect but rather family functional for your specific circumstance is great!
You might benefit from a trash can or two in your pantry / laundry room, depending on how recyclables are sorted in your area :) That way there is a quick and easy way for you and your family to get rid of empty packaging on a day to day basis.
Such a great idea! Thank you!
Or right outside the door that leads to the outside so they can quickly toss packaging.
@@jennyeddins7809 Having trash cans right outside the back door might be too far away, especially for the kids. I definitely wouldn't want to open an outside door to throw away some packages on a Saturday morning while standing in the pantry barefoot in my pyjamas on a cold snowy winter day.
The ultimate goal here is relief for Natalie in the form of a pantry that stays organized longer and is less overwhelming when it's finally time to get it tidy. These huge bulky packagings can be overwhelming because our brain registers them as big items and lets the job to take care of the pantry appear bigger than it actually is.
Having the trash cans right where the food is stored makes throwing the packaging away as easy as tossing it back on the shelves. Even if something isn't thrown away immediately, it can be done any time someone is popping in there to get a snack and realizes there is trash. It falls into the category "store it where you use it". Every place where trash is created regularly should have a trash can (or more, depending on the type of trash that is usually created there and your local waste system).
Trash cans for your pantry don't have to be fancy, a huge cardboard box for cardboard packaging and a trash can for plastics or even just a trash bag that is hung up on a wall will do the job.
We have trash cans in several rooms of our home, even though we live in an appartment. I highly recommend it, it makes tidying so much easier! They minimize the redundant part of throwing stuff away that should have been thrown away immediately and just stayed there because someone was to lazy to carry the item to a different room.
The only challenge Natalie might face is to integrate the trash cans in a way that packaging can be thrown away while standing in front of the shelves while simultaneous making sure that food cannot fall from the shelves into the trash cans. But as she plans to redo the room, I am pretty sure she will come up with a great solution for her and her family :)
☀️As a soon to be mom (due in July) and sorta new to being a wife (2 years this September) I love watching your videos and getting inspired to organize my home! You’re one of my favorite influencers ❤️
Haha or “de-influencer” 😂 thank you!!!! I’m so glad you’re here, Anna!
Honey does crystallized, and it is very heavy. My recommendation is to get a food safe 5-gallon water jug. You can get some that are more square, and you can get a spigot that is good for more viscous liquids like honey. I got one over 2 years ago, and frankly even with our family of five we have not finished it off yet. It has crystallized, and my current plan is to leave it in the car during the summer and add a little more water at that point.
Thanks for de-influencing us! Lol love it. Do many people think it's all or nothing with organization but it's not! You do such a good job of encouraging us to work with what we have. Thanks!
A well organized pantry is a necessity for getting the food budget under control.
You are lucky to have a big space.
We’re grateful for it!
I like your bucket idea. I do bake a lot, so I have a big bag of flour. And I will use your bucket idea. You may print a big font for oat, rice, flour and etc, to cover that large logo, make a more organized look.
I love the realistic pantry declutter! I use bins for storing bulk spices that I decant into easy to use jars, and to store less frequently used items. I've also put lazy susans at the corners of my pantry shelves for my oils, vinegars, sauces, etc. I have the problem where if I can't see it, I forget it's there, which means I lose things at the back of my pantry and it goes bad. The lazy susans and clear containers help me see what I have so much better and we waste so much less food!
I totally agree about containers! Sometimes they work great for certain things and other times they are just in the way and take up more room.
I love that tip of decluttering a space about the same amount of times per year, as you frequent per day. That's such a great idea.
Your buckets are awesome! You should look into Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers for storing more Rice, beans, flour etc. also DE (diatomaceous earth) to put in the back up foods like these if you are going to be storing them for years. I think your labels are perfect! Your whole pantry looks amazing now. Do you have a basement to store more?
A similar can organizer has worked for me, I have 2 side by side, and I use Dollar Tree cutting boards to line the wire shelving so that everything is stable. I despise the wire shelving and would change that if I could. I don't believe everything requires a bin and it does depend on how you access things. Bins and baskets can be helpful some times and also a hinderance if you over do it. Love the video.
I loved your excitement over your bucket lids! I was the same way when I finally invested in the gamma lids. They are game changers! ☀️
As a soon to be first time mom, I’m loving the decluttering and spring cleaning! My nesting motivation is peaking right now, and although my new apartment is much smaller than your beautiful home I’m still trying to make systems that function just like your mindset! You’re the best. Looking forward to what’s coming next! 🌞
I decant very little. The original package has the expiration date on it and often cooking times and a useful recipe idea. As long as I can reseal it effectively and access the contents easily I just leave it in whatever it came in. How pretty it looks (or not) really doesn’t matter to me because it’s all in cupboards with doors on, not open shelves. I keep a notepad inside the cupboard door to write a list when I use up the last of something or move onto the last pack.
I loved these videos. My favourite! Great space, I prep but have a very tiny home so need to have a regular strategy for organising and rotating. IF you were to talk more about prepping and organising foods and household items it would be so helpful to us all with current events unfolding. Nothing crazy but just a regular family getting organised.
I actually do use can organizers with success. There are 3 things I buy by the flat, Coconut milk, pumpkin puree, and olives. Each one gets its own rack, and it is a good solution for an awkward floor space in my pantry closet that isn't easily accessible otherwise.
Hey Natalie! Welcome to the bucket organization! We love it around here. Just wanted to make a suggestion on your “honey bucket”, we buy honey by the gallon from some friends of ours here locally.. and I will suggest you to get yourself a gallon glass jar. I wish I could send you a picture of what I am talking about but I’m sure you probably know what I am talking about. Sometimes you can get some good apple juice in those kind of jars or bottle (not sure what to call it) but it is so much easier to pour into whatever we want it on. Less mess, and if it gets hard, you know how honey can crystallize, we can just put the glass jar in hot water not having to worry about toxins bleaching. I found my gallon jar at a thrift shop.
Btw, love your videos! Your home decor! Wish I could meet you in person one day! Blessings to you and your family! Happy spring! 🙋🏻♀️
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#Replay Lady here. I straighten out my refrigerator, upright freezer and pantry on Tuesdays weekly. Meal planning is easier that way.
I like those bin clips, and I just put a piece of Scotch tape on and write with Sharpie on that so the white stays white. Not "janky" at all. That's how I do playroom storage when I need the cube bins.
Love the messy to minimal remix your doing! I’ve been here from back then. It’s lovely to revisit. ☀️
I have the metal can rollers that hold quite a lot of cans. I have very narrow deep pantry cabinets, and I found if I put a shelf in the garage (which is steps off of the kitchen), I easily access the cans.
I found you tru the pantry organization in 2020 I didn’t even have a pantry and when my husky saw your pantry he said. Im going to bile you one and now I have a pantry that I love is not Pinterest worthy but I love it. And I use the same bickers and lids and I use glass jars to kept the food fresh and I label everything with tape that way I can wash it and used for something also. I don’t recommend to wri on the bickers or the lids because that especial items can tun out and you can used for something also and you can wash them and live that Sistem because is so chip. I did order labels but they did not work because they are not washable.
I wish I had all my dollars back from the dysfunctional dollar tree bins I bought after watching DT TH-cam videos 😂 LIVE and LEARN! Lol when you simplify some spaces they don’t always need containers after I’ve decluttered most of the items! Declutter first and organize last!
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I think your handwritten labels look beautiful.
I love how real and honest that you are! Your pantry looks awesome! 😊
Hi! I know I'm late to commenting, but I usually save your videos for the weekends :)
About the stacked buckets idea: Just keep in mind that they might become less accessible that way. If you have double the buckets of each item, you might not need to get to the bottom one, but for the top one you need even more space on top to get into the bin or have to pull the whole stack towards you. That might be even more annoying^^
But I guess you have to try it out and see what works for you :)
I’ve always been pretty organized and mostly a minimalist. The beautiful pantries are lovely but just not practical enough for me lol
I love that you embrace decluttering and organizing from a common sense practical approach!!
We keep our bull bag of oats and quinoa in our deep freeze
Down stairs. Unfortunately I don’t have any handier place or I would love those buckets
Thank you for your awesome REAL LIFE content, I've been a fan for three years now and have benefited from the encouragement and help.😊
We are about to start day 2 of spring cleaning in our house. This was just the motivation I needed to get back on the ball after a looooong day yesterday. Thank you! Our laundry room doubles as storage for everything home maintenance related (light bulbs, extra paint, tools, cleaning supplies, etc) as well as being the main entry point of our home. It can be so frustrating when it gets to be a big mess (80% of the time) , and I’m struggling to find a system that keeps that from happening.
☀️I usually can’t leave an emoji because I listen to you in the car. Glad to be able to drop one here!
Love seeing how you’ve evolved over the years in all the ways! ❤️☀️
I would love to see more baking and "cooking from scratch" content!
Thank you for saying that bins can be a hindrance in a pantry sometimes! I dont have any bins in my pantry because it is the worlds smallest pantry so I hardly have any space for food as it is!
☀️ I got SO EXCITED when you pulled out the 5-gallon buckets with the spinning gamma lids!! They are game-changers! I keep All-purpose Flour, Bread Flour, Jasmine Rice, California calrose rice, Brown Rice, Salt, Sugar, Roll Oats, and Pinto Beans in my buckets. I have mini ones too that I keep loose dried pasta (eg. Penne noodles) in. Like you, we have been stocking our “emergency/ homestead pantry” over the years. I bought my buckets over 8 years ago and only had a couple to start with! I had to laugh about Weston coming in and doing the bin lids, because that’s EXACTLY what happened with me and my husband. 🤪
I actually do use a can roller and have used it for over a decade! In fact I bought a second one several years ago! You have to dedicate only ONE kind of item per slot. For instance, I think I have 8 slots on mine now. Each one only carries a single kind of item: canned Tomato sauce, then next to it is Diced Tomatoes 🍅, then next to that is Black Beans 🫘, then Refried Beans has its own slot, and so forth. No mixing and matching into the slots or the cans that don’t match get lost forever. I keep Coconut Milk, Kidney Beans, Great Northern Beans (for white chilis), canned Triple Beans, Canned Corn, etc. but each has their own slot. That’s the only way to store it really, is to use it for what you go through the most.
Edit: I USED to keep canned “Cream Of’s” but the glutamates really affect me as well! And my children. I am able to use some Organic “Cream of Celery” and gluten-free “Cream of Chicken” and those have really help. They are more expensive so it’s harder for me to stock up, but they are so much better for my health, during the occasional times I use them for recipes. ❤
Whole wheat flour goes rancid because of the wheat germ. What I do is buy white flour, wheat fiber (does not go rancid and can be stored in the pantry) and wheat germ that I store in the freezer. I mix them when I am going to bake bread.
I love your transparency and honest opinions. Looks great on your pantry. I have a pantry and laundry combo too.
Am amazed how much you stocked up for same items, like same cleaner, oat and flour etc. Wonder how long u take to finish that big cans of oats and flour wow 🤩
These videos inspire me to get moving, I'm watching this at 19.47 CAT and already thinking of a to do list for my cleaning supplies and groceries and how I can make the spaces neater. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Love baking pie, cakes, and cookies. It's interesting to see what different hobbies and cooking styles do to people's pantries and kitchens.
I buy the plants holder with wheels abd add the buckets on top so it’s easy to move
Amazing idea!
Thank you for the realistic approach and the great ideas! Love your sweet family ❤
we make a grocery list but aren't always the best about sticking just to the list, as we see something we need but forgot to put on. we know our general meat choices and so we are really good about sticking to those things, we buy more when the price is good, and settle for just enough when it's not. but as far as planning a meal plan, we are not good about that, I think i am the only person who could make that work, but it's a lot of work with a family of 5.
Have you thought about changing the handle on your fridge door in your laundry room/pantry? It seems like it would make it easier access if the door opened from right to left
I was also going to recommend that, great minds!!
I noticed that when my washer and dryer were stacked I wasn't able to lay junk down on top of them. We even removed a cabinet to stack them. A year ago we put them side by side and it never fails, they are covered in stuff that needs to go out to our storage barn. Drives me nuts. But we're getting ready to buy a new set that will be heavier duty, my husband is a contractor with very dirty clothes, and so they will be top loading. I don't know what I'm going to do about it. Lol. Worse is that our laundry/ mud room is the main entrance to the house thanks to how our house was built and how the driveway is set up. Everyone sees the messiest room in our house
I live outside of town too by 45 minutes, I 100% get Stocking up. I do too. It especially comes I'm handy come winter time, we are North.
My youngest son’s birthday is November and the Halloween candy always went in the party bags for his birthday parties. Then Easter chocolates were used for s’mores when camping during the summer months
I have started decluttering with the plans to be moving out of state towards the end of the year! I love watching your videos for some motivation! ❤
Hey! Check out Azure Standard. They are a food co op for mainly organic and bulk foods (not exclusively). You should have a drop point in your area they are local to Oregon but deliver all over the us.
Enjoy seeing more of your personality come out, not that you were faking or hiding at all just that you’re leaving it in the videos more i.e (adhd is so fun 🎶😂) also love the idea of function over fancy and using what you have for now, great video!
I really appreciate your function over fancy motto here. I too feel that I’m just not a basket/container decanter. I do love the look and I use them for the highest shelves for disposable products and my cake decorating supplies that I don’t access regularly but has a lot of different pieces. But for things like foods I often forget about it and it expires. I love to just do a quick glance and grab and putting it away is much faster and I need efficiency in my life. I also used to do groceries without a plan and I felt like we’d come home sometimes with random ingredients and it was like a jumble puzzle trying to find things that actually worked together. Meal planning with a grocery list has really cut down on that.
Love your improv mallet then Winston to the rescue! Lol the buckets are a great idea! I need to try that!
Love these messy to minimal updates and your realistic organizing approach! I enjoy browsing Pinterest, but its just not real life. ☀️
Chocolate chips in the freezer perhaps? That's where we've always kept ours.
Lazy Susan cabinets used to drive me crazy too.
Just curious, is it less stressful for you to have such a large amount of dry goods rather than say, just buying flour, sugar, oats one at a time?
No guilt, no pressure, I'm praying for you to feel well today 🙏 ♥️
Currently cleaning out my kitchen cabinets while watching your video. Major inspiration!!
Looks awesome.I agree function first.Here a thought put your baking soda in bucket.Im going to do that.I use a lot for cleaning.have a great week.love you videos.Agree stacking them is good Quality of king Arthur flour is the best I have been using 30 yrs.it support local farmers and other things.I don't use anything else.your doing good 😊💐🤗🙏
I'd love it if you shared some of your favorite baking recipes! I have one go to cake recipe and other than that I sometimes try different cookie recipes but I rarely feel inspired to try anything else.
I just took a food senstivity test and what came up as highly sensitive was...egg whites! I immediately thought of you, and I love that you show interesting alternates--like the Red Mill Egg Replacer!! Didn't know that existed, so I'll definitely be buying some of that. Appreciate that content now so much!
I’m a few years into cooking egg-free, and I initially couldn’t use the powdered egg replacers because they usually contain potato starch. I found two things that helped: 1) Liquid vegan egg replacers (carried in the refrigerated vegan or egg section several of my grocery stores now); and 2) Recipes from Mommy’s Home Cooking blog - she developed recipes that don’t need an egg replacer product. I love her cornbread, but need to tweak her banana bread recipe for my GF flour. Her sugar cookies were good too.
Since I saw you pass on the condensed soups, can we PLEASE get an updated chicken bite back recipe?! I’ve been thinking I want to learn how to make it without, and I know you must’ve mastered it by now
🌟like how you look back on 3 years ago! Yes- recycle the candy, great idea !!!! Love your labels 😊 great job !!!
In enjoy your Vlogs the kitchen one where what you said about taken things as slow as you want and only do what you want to do its so hard for me sometimes to get my self motivated to even start but wants I done it makes me feel so much better
Nice pantry fix...looking so much better. I got two of those buckets during the pandemic, they were hard to find and hard to close. You can also add to your pantry Carnation dried milk since the grocery stores are far from you-just a thought.
I always learn something (or more) with your videos. Today I learned my favorite new word! "Janky"!! I will be using that for sure!! Thanks Natalie for your time and your great tips! Have a great rest of your week! 💛
It looks great and fancy bins are not budget friendly for a prepper pantry. I have the buckets like you have and I Love the Gamma lids. I however do put thing's in glass jars like Pasta and beans. Nothing fancy just wide mouth half gallon ball jars.
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I would love to hear/see more sourdough content. Def love these type of videos too!
☀️In search of pantry inspiration that original pantry video was the first of your videos I had ever seen! So fun to be on this decluttering journey “with you”😂 Keep up the amazing work sis!
Your conversation with Weston is pretty much EXACTLY like my husband and I, it gave me a laugh! He's just so much stronger than I am - I stubbornly put on one or two and had to basically put my body weight on it and hop..... Thanks for sharing, Natalie :)
I remember that pantry declutter video was one of the first videos of yours I watched when I found your channel and binge watched it for several hours. 😅Time has flown and I'm still loving your channel. 💕💕😊
Maybe consider changing the door swing o your fridge and even the washing machine/dryer to make t
Make it even more functional. Sorry hit wrong button and it wouldn't let me edit. Arghghg
Not to poo poo on your plans of a stacked washer/dryer but as a fellow short lady who had a stacked combo in an old apartment, I found it to be really difficult to truly reach without a step stool and that just felt like a big old pain in the butt. They’re great space savers but being short makes it a lot tougher. Just a thought! 💛☀️
Thank you so much for your input! This is something we’ve gone back and forth on and are still formulating plans!
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☀️I have a can organizer in my overflow pantry and it works great for us 😊 I love those buckets you got! If I had a space for that I would totally do that!
We buy super bulk like that too. I need to do the buckets but just haven’t made it a priority. I did learn to freeze my flour for a few days before adding it into a container to prevent bugs hatching. We had one bag that infested our whole pantry
Yes! We do that with rice too!
🌞 Natalie your videos are always inspiring! Every time I see you've posted I make myself a cup of tea and cozy in ☺☕
☀️ Hi Natalie! I love pantry organization videos! 🌸 The pantry looks great and functional! Love how you don’t feel it needs to look Pinterest worthy to have the finished look. 🌸
The bucket and Gamma lid combo is fun, I wish I had the space for them! but what were you doing at Tractor Supply? They were bought out. :( So was Bragg's, Lehmann's...
Can organizations is easy if you don’t put several different things in one slot. It also keeps the oldest forward. But it could be the 25 years of working in a grocery store that helps me.
was curious how you organize to ensure that you use everything before the expiration date. Im sure most of those things have such a long shelf life so it might not even matter. But, do you put the newest to the back so you’re grabbing the “older” ones first much like a grocery store I guess, or do you go through everything and then make one large purchase? Buying in bulk doesn’t fit our lifestyle right now and I don’t know a ton about it so its always cool to hear you talk about those things!
Side bar: Really cool to see how your systems have changed as your family and your space grows and changes! Just goes to show that there is no one perfect method!
Pintrest pantries are pretty, but I agree with your methods 100%. "Function over fancy"👏👏👏