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Cupboards/Cabinets

You may want to do one cabinet at a time.

Empty the cabinet and wash and wipe out including both sides and tops and bottoms of the doors.

Check the dates of everything you remove before replacing back in the cupboard.

If you have items in date that you no longer want, consider donating to a food bank and recycle the out of date products using your food bin and glass/plastic/tin recycling facility.

Roasting Trays - dispose of items that have rusted and aren't fit to use, store similar size trays together. Donate items that you're not going to use if unused. Think about repurposing them.

Tins - consider about getting a three tier system in the cupboards so you can see what you have at the back. Store similar tins in clear acrylic storage trays. keep meat, soup, fruit, fish tins together.

Serving Dishes- keep the ones you use the most at the front of the cupboard and the others behind it. Donate ones that aren't chipped or damaged if you no longer use them.

Crockery - recycle all chipped and cracked plates, bowls etc, and donate what you don't want.

Dry Goods - think about storing open bags of rice , cereals and pasta in air tight containers.

Tupperware - match all Tupperware to lids, store inside one another and a base to keep the lids in. See my earlier post about Tupperware. Keep "lidless" bases for storage.(see Herbs and Spices)

Herbs &Spices - keep spices in jars they come in or in jars that are airtight. Think about using a drawer and laying them down next to one another or possibly getting smaller jars that fit standing up in your drawer and create labels for the lids. Another way of storing them is containers divided into herb and spices.

Pots and pans - stack pots and pans into each and store lids separately and recycle pots and pans you no longer want if used and donate if unused.