Does Your Home Have A Food Pantry?

My house doesn't have a food pantry in the kitchen and it drives me crazy.

I use to put my dry goods on shelves across from the washer and dryer in the laundry room but that isn't really close to where I cook.

Currently, I use a big rack that's intended for garage storage or something like that.

Where do you keep your dry goods?

 

My kitchen has tons of cupboards... Storage is not a problem.

 

one those bookshelves,, its next to the frigidaire microwave cabinet has a lot of space too..

notice the brosisinlaws dont have a pantry , they buy food everyday, hardly anything to snack on, no cans of tuna, no fruit cups,no beans,, people have 3-$600 tv sets and no paper towels. .. strange..

 

We have a set of opening doors. It's not huge but it has a few shelves and stores all our dry stuff. Then we have a small separate cupboard for spices and herbs etc.

My folks house had one in the wall and it pulled out on rails. It was pretty cool. I'd like something like that again. Or just a huge walk in.

 

I've been seeing the pull out ones on wheels. Those seem pretty simple to make.

 

Yes. It's a great place to lose cans of food until they are expired.

 

i barely have a kitchen.

 

I stash stuff all over the place. 3 cabinets in the kitchen dedicated to food items, 1 drawer for candy and junk, and whatever doesn't fit goes in the tiny room next to the laundry room on a shelf.

Items in one of the cabinet get forgotten about as soon as they're put in there haha. it's sort of blocked by the weird makeshift cabinet where I store all the nutribullet blender stuff and a microwave on top. Kind of hard to open it. I should probably clean it out some time, but I keep forgetting there's even a cabinet there. Probably some stuff in there from when we moved in!

 

That is cool. Everything right up front where it can be seen!

 

Kitchen here has a big pantry closet......

 

My house was built in 1985. It's a starter home but I've ended up staying in it all these years. The front door opens right into the living room with no entry way. Of course the side door opens right into the kitchen, as does the back door.

The laundry room has tons of storage shelves all piled full of tools and junk which has fallen over because the shelves aren't that deep.

I need to organize that and just start putting my food back on those shelves. They are only about 10 more feet from the shelf/rack I'm using now.

 

My New House Has A Small Walk In Pantry, A Large Walk In Storage Room,

And A Walk In Wardrobe, Too Bad They Have Next To Nothing In Them....



Cheers Glen.

 

yes

little room with its own door in a corner and no light

just the right size to knock shit off shelves into the garbage can

or to lose it forever if it hits the floor because youre not going to ever step in there to look and cause an avalanche

 

^lol

 

no pantry but I do have a lot of cabinet space so I have plenty of space for food, spices, and dishes.

 

We kind of have a pantry. The basement stairs are off the kitchen. There is a good sized area out there at the top of the stairs and a fairly deep ledge that goes around the top of the stairs at floor level. Plenty of room for shelves just off the kitchen. I'm planning on building kind of a trap door over the stairs that will come down and be a floor. Then it will just look like a larger pantry.

That reminds me....behind one of the shelves is an old door that leads out of the house but we sealed it off years ago. We never used it. But thinking about the mud room thread....that would have originally been a mud room. Still can be actually.

 

oddly yes. except it isn't mine, though i was welcomed to use it. i found it inconvenient for the way i live, to do so. of course if it actually was MY house, that would almost certainly be a different matter.

if i did own a house, the one room it would not have, is how most people think of a living room. that would be the model railroad. sitting on a couch, watching movies/television, and with a bunch of other people, i have nothing against, its just not something that even remotely interests me to be part of my everyday lifestyle. i have other and better uses for every kind of space that might be available to me.

dry storage space, pantries, are, a good idea. but renting a room in someone else's house, i found in inconvenient and just didn't need it. the odd hours i keep, also made most of the communal spaces inconvenient to me.

 

Agreed. We have a living room but it's not a place I spend much time in. I have very little interest in tv or movies. Before my wife and I lived together, the living room was a band room. Drums, sound system, etc. Now it's a room that I mostly just walk past. It looks nice but I don't have much to do it there.

 

I live in my living room. My desk is here. I don't have a den or family room. I have a day bed in here. The dog crates are right here beside me, blocking one of the walk thrus to the kitchen.

I've even used this room for my bedroom.

Hell, I've even had a tent erected in here for a guest; to give them some privacy.

But no mud room and no pantry.

 

Sounds cozy! I LOVE day beds.

We have a pantry type closet in our kitchen, but it is where I store the hoover, mop and bucket, cleaning supplies, ect. Dry goods are kept in the cupboard above the sink.

When I lived on my own in a bachelor pad, there was a HUGE pantry with tons of shelving. I didn't have a dresser then though, so I used the pantry to store most of my clothing. It worked very well.