Organizing Spices

​We love to bake and cook. Nothing became more evident of such than having 3 BJ’s Warehouse Berkley Jensen reusable shopping bags (measuring 19″ x 15″ x 14″) heaping full of just spices. Yes, just spices! For weeks, those bags sat in a corner untouched and overwhelmed as to where and how I was going to home them. Like with anything, it’s one step at a time. I quickly realized some were in masses and others were used on rare occasions, so purging was necessary. 

Space onboard is always prime real estate. Free space is never overlooked, even if it’s in a spice cabinet.  Utilizing the ceiling, Jacques came up with the idea of adding small circular magnets to our McCormicks’ miniature spice bottles followed by a adhesive magnetic strip. The magnetics strips proved to fail along, just not strong enough to hold the weight. Business card size wide magnetic strips didn’t work either. Jacques solution was a steel panel applied with double sided 3M strips, which works well.

Now with our frequently used spices sorted. My next task was repackaging, labeling and listing the remaining spices. For many reasons, spice envelopes work well.

The duplicate miniature bottles I just tossed in a Ziploc baggie with a list of them.

Tips:

• Having an alphabetized list on the interior on the cabinet door makes provisioning a little bit easier (Photo C).
• Purchased circular magnets and the steel plate commonly used for vinyl signage (Photo B). 
• Purchased the Stacking Clear Brightroom Storage Bins from Taggart (Photo D).
• Purchased the clear spice bags on Amazon (Photo E).
• The Spice House offers hard to find spices. Also packaged in envelopes (Photo E).