HOW TO ORGANIZE PASTA AND SAUCES

Before you give in to the temptation of copying those Pinterest-perfect and Instagram-worthy pantries, you must keep in mind that those systems may not be realistic for you to keep up with. Decanting your pasta into those beautiful, expensive canisters may not even be necessary for you and your household depending on how much you cook and your lifestyles. I share all about how to properly organize your pasta and sauces in a way that makes sense for the size and lifestyle of your household. And, did you know, you can also organize your spaces according to your organizing style? You can find out what your organizing style is here.

Before organizing your pasta and sauces, you must purge the expired ones and the ones you do not like. Be ruthless and purge the excess so you can more easily store what you do use.

In my freebie library here, I include guides which help walk you through the organizing process and help you decide what to purge and keep. I also include my declutter and organizing challenge calendars and guides to help direct you through each area of your home. These guides ensure you get through every nook and cranny and finally get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

In this post, we focus on how to organize your pasta and sauces. Below, I share ideas on how to properly organize these ingredients with different types of organizing solutions that will work for your organizing styles and spaces. (The proper storage and organization of other dry goods including bean, grains, and legumes, cereal, and baking ingredients are linked as noted.)

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How to Know if You Need Pasta Containers

The typical number of servings in a box of pasta can serve a family of four to eight. So, in the typical household, I believe you are cooking a whole box of pasta. Or, if you have a smaller household, you may like to prepare enough food to have leftovers. In either case, you won’t be needing a container to hold any unused pasta. So, save yourself some money and leave those pretty containers at the store. Just line those boxes up on the shelf and you’re good to go! Or, if you need to store your pasta boxes and bags on a shelf that is slightly out of reach, you can use a handled bin like this (found here):

How to Organize Pasta Sauces

I believe it’s a good rule of thumb to organize your pasta sauces and other pasta recipe ingredients near your pasta. This will make meal-planning easier as you can take a quick look through your pantry and decide what pastas or sauces you might need to complete a meal. You can use bins like these to contain your pasta sauces (found here):

How to Decide How Many Containers You Might Need

If you do typically only cook a portion of a box or bag of pasta, then, utilizing pasta containers can be just what you need! BUT, how many different types of boxes or bags of pasta do you leave open all at once? And, what shapes or sizes of pasta do you typically purchase? It seems the only special container you would need is a tall container, like this one below, if you purchase spaghetti or linguini regularly and only use a portion regularly (found here):

So, you will either just need to purchase tall containers individually. Or, a set of these containers might work for you if you know you could make good use of the rest of the containers.

If you store a lot of other dry goods like beans, grains, and legumes like I share here, utilizing these matching containers below can help with modular-type dry good organization as these containers can stack on top of each other (found here):

I hope you found some ideas for how to organize your pasta and sauces for your organizing style and/or the space that you have! In my next post, I share ideas on how to organize your cereal. Don’t forget to grab my free resources from my freebie library here. Let’s get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

Happy Organizing!