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You all know that like to have a container in my pantry for everything, pasta, dried fruits, nuts etc. But sometimes the containers won’t fit the full packet, and there are many different types of nuts, as an example, it’s impossible to have a container to fit everything which results in many open packets in my pantry.
I have quite a few open packets of excess food or those that don’t have a container at all to go into. In haste I fold over the packet to enclose the contents, but most times they flip back up and air get’s in making the contents stale.
What to do with open packets in pantry
I have found an organised solution for all my open packets. I have a little set of drawers at the bottom of my pantry for all the extra packets (found in the office section at Ikea, $15 each).
But then… AnyLock contacted me asking if I would like to try their sealing rods? Absolutely, I was very curious. Must quickly add, I’m impressed!
AnyLock sealing rods create a waterproof and airtight seal which will keep foods fresh and the contents sealed in well. The rods are reusable and come in a variety of sizes. They are great for those that struggle using the ziplock bags, I know there are days I can’t seal them properly or get a good grip to open them with arthritis in my fingers.
- Prevents spills
- Seals in freshness
- Keeps food fresh and odour-free
- Reduces food wastage
- Leak-proof
- Saves space in cupboards and pantries
- Reusable
- It’s the revolutionary, new choice of food storage
- No need for bullclips – AnyLock has virtually unlimited uses about the home and office when it comes to seal and protection.
How to use AnyLock sealing rods
- Fold over and crease the open end of the bag
- Place the inner yellow guide under the edge of the bag fold
- Slide the sealing rod across the top of the bag, feeding the bag between the inner guide and the outer sleeve.
Uses for AnyLock sealing rods
Unlimited uses in the kitchen for all different packet food such as nuts, dried fruit etc.
I used to put my corn in freezeable containers, but I have started to run out of room in the freezer as I have a build up of left overs and baking for lunchboxes on the shelves and find storing the frozen vegetables easier in the drawers, but there are times corn is turned upside down and goes everywhere. The AnyLock is really easy for the kids to use too, you know, for those nights they like to cook dinner!!
Such a simple idea with many uses, not just for the kitchen, you can use in the bathroom too, for the cotton balls that won’t fit into the jars.
We only use half the crystals when filling up our cats litter tray, the AnyLock can seal the bag so if knocked over between cleans it won’t spill! This is the back of the bag below, you can see how you fold it over and simply slide on the rod.
And… use to seal up packets of fertiliser, will stop the shed from smelling.
Other ideas:
- cereal
- coffee
- chips
- really the list could be endless.
I’m really impressed, they are simple to use, slide on and off with ease, yet airtight and waterproof and a variety of sizes to suit most bag sizes.
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210 comments
Definitely the spices that aren’t in jars. All just shoved in a spice rack wherever they fit!
Everything feels chaotic at the moment. I think the cereals are definitely the worst though because the kids get into those all day long!
Definitely my baking area….I have containers but its the half used choc melts and oats that look messy
The kids snacks! So many packets and it’s so hard to keep it all sealed and organised.
The most disorganized part of my pantry is the baking items shelf. The flour, salt, oats, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, chocolate chips, etc. look so messy and not uniform.
The most disorganised shelf in my pantry would be the spare food shelf. The one with extra tins and bottles and packets. It doesn’t matter how I put things away I always can never find anything on that shelf!!!
A cup of tea please, what type would you like, there’s the green, behind the peppermint, below the black, oh dear the camomile has spilt, how about green camomile?
It would definitely have to be the baking shelf! Half used packets of nuts, baking chocolate;, dark, white, milk, coconut & many flours. I even need to own up to once having a nasty “flour mite” in my pantry – I’m sure if using Anylock, the flour mite would never return!
At the moment the whole pantry, it seems to have gotten away from me lol. And where did I get all those sauces lol. the any lock rods look easy to use, Mmm time to get organised, the baking section needs work
My baking section is absolutely chaos, so many packets of open nuts,choc bits ,sprinkles …..the list goes on
I have far too many ‘bits and pieces’ strewn all over the shelves, spilling all over the place. Chaos!!!
I have a community of open bags behind my tupperwares. I think the packets are all having a private party. I have tried using pegs but they seem to fall off.
My freezer and pantry are on equals when it come to unorganised packets.
My bags of open or extra nuts is the messiest bit of my pantry! These would be great! I store the extras in a container but all ways have spills. Thabks for the chance to win! ?
Our whole pantry is chaos!! We just moved house and it was all neat, but now the kids get in and pull things out, things just get thrown wherever..nothing has a place anymore. I must say though, we seem to have lots of open packs of different pastas
Definitely my baking shelf, packets, decorating things, candles everywhere. Just can’t seem to find the right containers
My kitchen is original circa 1960s with no pantry, so we use the small cupboards intended for plates, cups etc as a pantry. The baking section is the most disorganised, as with very limited space it is all piled on top of each other. I almost always have to remove all of the contents to find what I am looking for!
My entire pantry and fridge are disastrous
my most unorganised is the whole damn lot. True.
If i have to pick one area maybe the spices. Or cereal.
I would have to say my spices Especially the little packets of spices as I have quite a few now that i don’t have containers for yet and it is something I seem to forget about until I go to use them.
Like a previous comment, my herbs and spices. I like using the small jars but a whole packet doesn’t fit so I have a plastic container with half full packets sitting in zip lock bags. The herbs and spices still fall out of the original packaging into the zip lock bag. I’ve tried several types of plastic clips and bull dog clips but the “perfect” sealing option still eludes me….
My most unorganized section would have to be snaxks. Half opened bags of chips, biscuits etc.
It’s a toss up between the kids snacks & the breakfast cereals! So many items & not enough containers!
I have large open neck glass jars with screw top lids in a book case type space for everyday items to be close at hand and easy to check when supplies are running low
Nuts, pasta and cereals so I use pegs, bulldog clips, rubber bands or sticky tape but they are all fiddly!
It m ay sound trite, but MY WHOLE PANTRY!! I need a make over, but to start these ANYLOCK sealing rods look amazing. My freezer is a mess with corn and peas, and there are always chips etc in the bottom of the pantry.
HELP!! I need these!!!
Oh where do I start? The cereal is a serial disaster; the pasta is in a mess of bow ties, linguine and macaroni mayhem; the spices make me hot under the collar and the nuts are driving me, well, nuts! I need help!
The most disorganised area in our pantry is the spices that don’t fit in jars – peppercorns, extra packets of cumin and coriander, and star anise.
The other area where I could really use some package closers like these is in our freezer. We have lots of half-used fruit and veggie packets there!
Thanks for the opportunity to win.
My pasta, nuts and masterfoods packaging for sure. But then again, my boys make a ripe mess of the snacks drawer.
always the pantry, it starts off with good intentions but within two weeks we all just put things at the front and push the rest to the back and find alot of open packs and we double up on alot.
My hubby just loves munching on chips and nuts, we have a bunch of those packets. I will always have to ensure that those unfinished foods in the packet are sealed and if I run out of containers, I will used rubber band. Seeing this ANYLOCK feels like a relief coz I know foods will not be wasted.
The remains of bags that don’t fit into my storage containers. These bags either sit on top of the full container waiting to be used or lie undisturbed for years in a big box on the pantry floor.
My linen press is out of control. All messed up and nothing is accessible. Nightmare!
My rice and pasta drawer is the worst…I noticed last night that the rice was spilled everywhere and oh what a mess there was.
Mayhem in my pantry! Several varieties of rice – jasmin, arborio, brown and wild. It drives me nuts! And my many varieties of nuts – macadamia, pistachio, almond, cashew, peanut & pinenut drive me loopy! Yes kids fruit loops spill all over the floor along with rice bubbles, Cheerios and muesli! What am I to do? Help please!!!
I have a drawer that contains spices only.Most are in little jars. However I cannot fit anymore jars so i have a dozen or so packets of things like sesame seeds, flax seed, dried shallots and so on. The contents come out all over the drawer and it ends up a big mess. I end up vacuuming (yes vacuuming) it all to clean the mess. Please help me!!!
My entire pantry, fridge/freezer needs help, so much stuff to sort. Please help me
FIVE of us! One teen is Vegan…soooo many packets of legumes and seeds! One teen is a health nut…soooo many packets of protein! One child is a sugar fiend….soooo many hidden packets of sweets! One is my hubby….soooo hopeless at closing things! One is me….bemused, befuddled and desperate for Alice Brady to move in! Help!!!
Definitely my spices cupboard.
We remodelled our kitchen when we extended and put the pantry under the stairs. Because it is out of sight, everything just gets ‘tossed in’. There is no rhyme or reason. Would love a whole week off to just sort it all out and put in proper shelves and the like
Definitely my baking shelf! Nuts, choc chips, flour and sugar that won’t fit in the container ??
My baking shelf is THE worst! I NEVER use a whole bag of things (choc chips, nuts, almond meal etc). I waste SO much, as when I get to baking again, the air has got into my opened bags ago I have to buy new packets-then the same process starts over again ? ANYLOCK bag seals look like THE best invention for me! ??
My pasta and rice section definitely!! half used packets that get moved around and spill everywhere!
Biscuits, pasta, chips, cereals, nuts, spices, flour, sugar — all opened packets that I find so hard to keep fresh and accessible. And every time I see how disorganised they look just makes me cry, “waaaaah!”
My freezer! My kids go hunting in there & I’ve got corn, peas, broad beans & who knows what else, all rolling around the bottom of the drawer.
My baking section is chaos! A lot of open bags of ingredients that are only used in one or two recipes (I have every type of coconut you can imagine- shredded, dessicated, flaked, you name it!). I love the idea of being able to keep those ingredients fresh between baking sessions! 🙂
My left over herbs and spices. They have a container of their own to sit in until I need them, but they’re always spilling, mixing and making a mess!
My messiest area is the kids section half opened packets all the time
usually the back of the pantry where I keep the not so often used bottles and packets of ingredients where I use them once or twice then they get shoved to the back behind the more frequently used items – out of sight out of mind until I do a clean out and they’ve expired…or worse…weevils! 🙁
Having Bernini the 20 day challenge currently organised but I know my open bags of pasta always get away from me.
Got to love auto correct, Bernini should have be been doing
My baking shelf = embarrassing
great idea! So need these. My baking supplies are a mess. I normally use peg which really aren’t great. Fingers crossed
I have an unusually deep pantry (80cm). It looks super-organised at the front but the back of my dry-goods shelf is a black hole where random opened packets of excess pasta, beans, coconut etc get thrown, sealed with clunky, inefficient bulldog clips! It’s messy and the clips don’t keep things fresh long; it’s a total afront to my anal-retentiveness!!
I even went and had a peep at my pantry to try to work out which part was the messiest and it is a very tight competition! The winner(??) is the very top of the pantry where I try to hide my chocolate stash from the kids. Chocolate gets thrown up there in haste when I hear the sound of footsteps approaching. Unfortunately not always quickly enough…
My problem is putting cream biscuits in the same container as the plain biscuits it makes them soft so I keep having to throw them out and I keep breaking those cheap clips would love some Anylock sealing rods.
We have 7 in our family with a vegetarian and a health nut so have many packets of nuts seeds legumes beans assorted flours pastas rices noodles rice papers nori sheets oats and wholemeal cereals wholegrain wraps and crackers, rice cakes etc and while most are in containers I do have a lot of opened packets and items that go to the back of the pantry only to be found after the use by date is long gone 🙁 Baking items and spices are also a problem
My shelf that contains kids snacks, adult snacks and pasta, rice and ang other misc item.
I know you said pantry – but for me it’s freezer! Peas, corn, chips all escape the opened packets and party on the bottom of my freezer, spilling out at any opportunity!
The messiest area in my pantry is the spices. I usually use sticky tape to reseal them. This doesn’t always hold and then they spill. I also try and put them into mini lunch bags.
PASTA! Oh my gosh, I have so many half empty bags of pasta floating around in the bottom on my pantry… and so many spillages. It is NOT pretty in there!
I have an “everyday” shelf in my pantry – items that are used everyday…and it is total chaos. Cereal packets not sealed properly, tea bags escaping from their box, biscuits going stale before their time, rice crackers that are like pieces of round cardboard and dont mention the dried apricots that are so dried out you could play ping pong with them! AnyLock sealing rods would save me from so much wasted food and dollars!
Everywhere!!!! My pantry is the most untidy section of my house and it drives me crazy. Little fingers com in and help themselves to items and then shove it back in wherever it will fit. I end up clearing it out every 3 months to find packets of things I have kept buying because I thought it was out but really it was just hiding at the back of the pantry somewhere 🙁
The whole pantry needs attention but the worst shelf would have to be the baking shelf with the left over nuts, chocolate drops etc. I try to keep them in jars but this is not always successful. And I like to keep track of use-buy dates.
It would have to be my freezer. Opened vegetables and fruits. Having basket draws in my freezer I find it hard to store.
The spices are all over my pantry. Particularly those in bags. And then there is not enough room in my spice rack for all the bottles.
My baking cupboard! All my flours, sugars, bread crumbs, cupcake toppings and sprinkles – its just a nightmare!!!!
My open packets! Nuts, pasta, rice, seeds, dried fruit… more pasta and rice that was lost under the other packets and probably stale anyway. Hence why I’m reading this article 🙂
My “baking area” half bags of flour, cocoa spilling out of boxes, food dye staining my shelves. I loaf organisation dough much!
Oh its hard to narrow it down to the worst space! The kids snacks used to be. Lots of small (unstackable) items, and with four kids all having different preferences there is always loads of open packets.
I think I have that solved with a snack trolley. Just a small cheapie 3 stacked baskets on rollers with everything they need to pack their lunches … bars, fruit cups, spoons, sandwich bags, bread and spreads. They wheel the trolley out, can see what they want and after the morning rush I wheel it back in.
Now it’s the 3 or 4 open cereals that drive me mad. Bulky and hard for the kids to seal, and the pantry mouths just love to find their way in there! Looking for the perfect moth-proof cereal containers (that will hold the largest packet of weet bix)!
My baking/decorating bits and pieces. They don’t always come in a nice little container, you tend to only use them a handful of times every year, but they seem to take over. . . . . . .
I think the bulk storage is the hardest to organise eg extra paper towel, packets of biscuits and items I’ve got extra of when they were on special. Then there’s the baking section with all the food coloring and flours and sugars. Or maybe the kids snacks? Or the cereal? Or my spices? Well let’s face it the whole pantry is a shamozle, perhaps it’d be easier to move……..
Definatly my baking shelf, im always baking yet there always seems to be a packet of plain flour that wont empty itself into the tupperware, or chocolate bits etc…! Would absolutly love to give these a go!
The pan lids! I don’t know what to do with them.
It would have to be my very top shelf where I keep all oil bottles, vinegars and whatever else is shoved up there and I must say the opened packets in my pantry dry me nuts.
It’s a tie between the bottles of food colouring and cake decoration items, bags of various nuts and seeds and the spice jars!
The worst part of our pantry is the ‘dry foods’ shelf, with everything from pasta and cereal to baking ingredients. It is also the shelf with the most pegs stolen from the washing line! My hope is that some Anylock sealing rods would remove the need for pegs – and therefore remove my toddler’s need to ‘rescue’ the pegs to put them back in the peg bucket.
My most disorganised spot in the cupboard is the dried fruit & nuts corner! All sorts of packets opened & unopened piled up! My kids love dried fruits & I love making bliss balls of all sorts so there’s a lot!
The worst area in our pantry is the bottom shelf. This is where bottles, packets and anything that doesn’t have a home gets stuffed in. I have organised the other shelves with containers and racks but half the problem is that I can’t see what I have down there so I end up buying more than what I need and can fit.
My baking shelf! All those little packets of hazelnuts, vanilla bean pods, choc bits and almond meal are currently ‘sealed’ with a peg! Needless to say they dont last so id love to try the Anylock sealing rods!
My pantry is quite small so anything that does not fit on the shelves is stacked up, and I have to be careful of not starting an “avalanche” when I am searching for something. 🙂
The baking section and the snack area…open biscuits, crackers, popcorn, snack packs etc etc. half stale! because unless mum seals them somehow others don’t! Lol
I have started using a lot of different flours, I am not GF but have found using less wheat makes me feel better. But you could never have enough containers for all the alternatives you seem to need – packets everywhere! I would love some of thes – to get my pegs back into the peg container.
Definitely the corner where all the kids snack foods are. Little packets of chips, biscuits, muesli bars and fruit bars everywhere!!!
That section under the shelves! I shove everything under there and it’s spilling out onto the floor of my pantry so now there is no standing space and I am bending over stuff to reach shelf items!! I love your idea of the boxes for loose packets, must try that!
My entire pantry is always unorganised especially with teenagers opening packets eating some throwing leftovers back in with packet left open
my herbs and spices – so many different ones in tiny jars and packets,
Kat these look amazing!
My pantry really suffers in two areas – condiments jars (nothing anylock can do about those!) and cereals. Seems everyone in the house likes a different cereal and tastes change before finishing the box. Drives me bonkers!!
I hate to admit this, but my ENTIRE pantry is unorganised at the moment and it is driving me crazy!
My spice mixes! Half are in jars and others in packets, some too small to stack and packets to flimsy to stand up. Constant struggle.
Rice flour, plain flour, icing sugar, self raising flour all over the place what is a person to do. Sweeping it up makes it look like a snow storm hit. I could throw in a couple of eggs and bake a cake out of it. There’s always a solution to every problem.
Definately my container cooking ingredients section, or my empty storage container cupboard.
all of my baking and herb area is so untidy, I just shuff it back in and shut door quick.
Definitely my baking shelf to the point I sometimes get greeted by little pantry moths…time to clean out again and my. Frozen veggie draw in the freezer. Zip lock bags work here only when. Someone cLoses them properly. I love this new idea though and will be lookin out for them at my local shopping centre.
I have too much stuff shoved in my pantry, so when I try to get to things at the back I make even more of a mess of the rest of it. I like the drawer idea.
The whole pantry. I had such grand plans when we got a new kitchen of a perfectly organised pantry, however I seem to be the only one in the house with that vision
The most disorganised part of my pantry in the lunch bags that all just get thrown in the bottom in a pile! Surely there’s a better way to store them!
I call it the “random shelf”…since it’s where everything that doesn’t fit elsewhere goes. Gotta say this is much better than the rubber bands & clothes pegs I find myself using sometimes!
My rices are the Bain of my pantry. One rice container, but several types of rice (Jasmine, Brown, Aborio. etc.)
The most disorganised part of the pantry is the open packets of nuts – each family member eats a different type of nut!
It’s a battle of baking ‘gear’ (fondants, food dyes, sprinkles, cutters) in my pantry versus the dreaded #pastagate. Anylock would save my San Remo spirals from spiralling out of control!
The most disorganised part of my pantry is the top shelf. It has a load of random things that I don’t use very often like extra crockery, teapot, bilting machine.
Everything else is neat and tidy and I have containers to put random open packets into when I need to. I’d love some Anylok sealing rods to seal them before I put them away.
Darn spellcheck. Sorry Anylock.
The most disorganised area of my pantry is the “baking battleground!” It’s chock-a-block full of half-used packets of dried fruit, nuts, choc-chips, flours, sugars, you name it – it’s there…it’s open…it’s half-used. Drives me half-mad!
Inbetween getting stuck and sidetracked from the current 20day challenge to decluttering my house, I love to eat, so that means lots of cooking and baking and feeding of others. When I’m pushed for time, I tend to stuff things back in the organized pantry, fridge and freezer, and undo the hard work I did to get it tidy in the first place. The items that get the messiest are these little packets that don’t have Tupperware houses, some surplus spices and too many varied chocolate chips (found Reese peanut butter chocolate chips the other day – soooo good in a cookie!). My trick has been to fold down the open packet and secure it with a rubber band. This works reasonably well most of the time, but is not ideal. I love these Anylock snaps! What a great idea! And then off to ikea to get some drawers to keep them all in! No more rubber bands for me!
OMG I need these stat I have so many open packets and the go to waste because they either dry out or go stale. Even the veggies in the freezer sick of them getting frost bite, I’m going to get myself some of these.
These would be great for my pantry as I am queen of open packets! This is by far the worst area of my pantry. I have baskets, bowls and containers of them!
my disorganised area in the pantry is any bags that the kids have opened (usually lollies). You know when the bag rips so far down that you need to practically use sticky tape?
I think the anylock seals will help close up the yummy contents and keep them fresh for ME!!!
my disorganised area in the pantry is the shelf where we place all the packets for snacks! We seem to have endless snack items for home, shopping trips, schools, after school activities!
OMG I am ashamed to say the whole thing! From the bottom to the top. I have a lack of storage space in my kitchen, so everything is shoved in the pantry. But it is on my todo list!
Definitely everything here too at the moment. Plus it doesn’t help that my pantry is so dark with no lighting…if I could get around to organising it I probably wouldn’t need to shop for months! Wouldn’t these make life a little simpler?! Thank you for the opportunity to win them.
It’s the spices for sure. Starting to follow an Ayurvedic diet has been great for my health because of all the spices that are added to cooking – but the number of them I need to keep on the go is huge! Spices go off too, if not sealed from the air.
The frozen veggies, every so often when I pull everything out of the freezer to clean there are peas, broad beans and even a corn cob on one occasion that had made a run for it!, I would love to be able to prevent such get-aways in the future…
Wow, these seem such a great invention! For me, spices. Not enough containers for them. Also I have various types of gluten free flour that I use!
The baking area. I’m a terrible cook and feel sorry for my kids suffering my cooking but a bit of confidence and organisation in the baking section would go a long way
Definitely my herbs and spices section. I use heaps of different spices and have over 40 bags/little bottles in my spice cupboard and have resorted to using elastic bands that either disintergrate or you can’t put on tight enough to seal
Definitely it would be the shelf at my five year olds sight line, he climbs to get what he wants elsewhere and then just piles everything at eyesight …. oh the things I find opened/half eaten in there …… but I have to admit the whole thing is pretty shocking even with Tupperware and all the best of organising intentions
Oh, for me it surely seems
wishing for a pantry of my dreams.
I can never get it right,
it always looks a fright.
Where is the worst to be?
Everywhere you can see!
Spices, cereals and flour,
oh how I need your power 🙂
Pretty please consider me
or you will find me in my tree 😀
The most disorganised area in the pantry is the “small items” area mainly used for spices, stock cubes and packet teas- all are varying sizes, some prone to spoiling, and are hard to corral. The ikea plastic cabinets are a great idea (**note to self- “go to ikea”)!!
The baking section. I always have too much plain flour but not enough SR. Or I have 2 bags of coconut already but buy a third because I didn’t think there was any…
The baking area is the most organised! Flours, sugars, additives all have a place!
I find the hardest thing is to maintain a clean pantry. To ensure everything gets used and not forgotten.
These look great! Yes, I hate open packets and yet never find time to put them all in cannisters etc. Worst part of my pantry is definitely the pasta / rice / couscous area at the moment.
everything. I straighten up but by the end of the week it’s in chaos again. We don’t have a proper pantry, so it’s just corner cupboard under the bench with tins, oils, sauces and a few other stuff located in other cupboards. The stuff that are at the front often get scatted around and moved to the wrong shelf in an attempt to reach things at the back and the cupboard gets in more mess trying to locate something that has been left on the wrong shelf by someone else
These ties look great, would be a welcome help in my pantry
I bought an 8 pack from Big W this am and tried them on my frozen peas and corn. I had to fold the packet over twice to get an airtight seal. It was slightly fiddlier doing the extra fold. They are more secure then a peg or rubber band and much neater.
I never bother looking at non-pretty practical looking stuff like that in the shops that I haven’t had recommended by someone so thanks Kat. I think they are going to be really useful.
I use lots of containers in my pantry so the thing I find a problem is the left overs after filling up the containers. So I think the Anylock Sealing Rods would be great.
I have a small section in my pantry for cans eg. tomatoes, corn etc. and I never seem to have enough space and then I get over flow. So even though I can’t use your new clips in this area of my pantry, I will certainly take your recommendation and get some they sound great – thanks for sharing.
Definitely baking supplies that you only need a little of – brown sugar/ choc chip bits/ dried fruit/ nuts etc What a great idea!
Definitely the extra packets of “overflow” items that don’t fit in their assigned containers! try as I might to use them first, sometimes its just not possible and it just all ends up a mess!
With the recent diagnosis of Leukaemia, one of my child’s medicines crowd the pantry, whilst being beside my toddler, newborn’s and the adults medicines = chaos on a whole pantry shelf! I believe these Anylock products will work keeping the pills airtight. What a great invention!
For me it is the baking area – I do lots of different baking using varied types of Gluten Free Flours.
The messy part of my pantry is the area between the floor and the roof.. I can never seem to sort it out properly!
Has to be my frozen section, bags of peas & beans etc my laundry pegs just don’t seal them properly!
We live in the country and I have a lot of problems with moths getting into my flours and cereals!! These sound like the solution! Fantastic idea, I would love not to have extra protein in the cereals 😉
Ice cream toppings….from open packets of sprinkles of every colour and kind to chocolate drops and cherrys in the fridge. If they are easy to use I could teach my husband as he is the main culpret at leaving packets undone!
It’s a toss up between the small packets of herbs and spices, the open packets of pasta, and the little containers of baking goods like choc chips and vanilla essence. Could definitely use some ideas for organising these areas.
I currently sharing my unit with my adult niece and her partner while they are saving for their own house. They moved in, together with an overabundant supply of herbs and spices which are currently housed in a cardboard box! Open packets, pegs, bulldog clips and sandwich bags are trying to conquer the mixed spices but to no avail. I think we need a solution and in a hurry.
The whole pantry… I’ve lost control and have pantry moths for the first time ever…errkkk
Ice cream toppings….from open packets of sprinkles of every colour and kind to chocolate drops and cherrys in the fridge. If they are easy to use I could teach my husband as he is the main culprit at leaving packets undone!
Definitely the area where I keep the open packets like pasta, peanut, etc and also the section where I keep things like instant noodle packets, cans of tomato, tuna, coconut powder etc. I must use containers like Tupperware and plastic drawers like the one that you use from Ikea in this post. Love this Anylock product, seems to be very effective yet simple solution and a must for organizing pantry and to seal other open packets.
All of it! With 4 boys and a hubby, no matter how nicely I organise the pantry, whenever they pull something it out it just gets shoved back in in any place. I dont know how many packets of food I have had to throw away as they havent been bothered to reseal them and they have gone stale or gotten pantry moths in, hopefully these are boy proof and will make it easier for them to seal bags
We just moved house (12th time in 12 years, gosh I hope this one will last!), so I’m back to reorganising all living spaces. My worst headache at the moment is the bathroom. It’s much smaller than we used to have and the cabinets weren’t planned smartly. The narrow cabinet below the sink drives me mad: it’s so narrow that all I can fit in is my makeup box but as there’s no shelf and I can’t fit one, the space above is a waste, and I have to stack things on top of each other – very annoying!
Am tackling the storage room today, wish me luck!
Moving house is clearly not good for me – I can’t even read the question correctly 🙂 ok, so it’s not about the most disorganised area of the house but the pantry… Well, my current one has very shallow shelves which makes it easy for my husband to find anything (men proof pantries should be made one can/jar/container deep) but hopeless for me trying to store anything. I guess the worst organised part now is the multiple packets of nuts, dried fruit etc. as they are all in small packets carefully tied around with elastic bands and the quantities are not enough to justify containers. Help!
Where we keep the munchies – chip packets, nuts and lolly bags
I follow the daily tips from Kat however I find my teenage children open packets and eat standing in the pantry. Of course they then leave the empty packet for me to deal with. So this becomes my most disorganised area, on the eye level shelf for everyone to see. Oh and if I am lucky they use a peg to seal the bag up so the contents don’t go stale.
Def the baking section – all my flours/sugar are sorted with Tupperware, but the nuts/cocoa/choc bits/seeds/muesli etc are always such a mess no matter how I try to organise it
Various varieties of nuts and dried fruit because we mix ‘fruit & nuts’ ourselves to only have those we love.
The very bottom shelf, floor level where my totally anal wife thinks no one looks.
BTW you can make these yourself, like we do. All you need is two straws and a pair of scissors. Youtube link for your reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78heGmysh4w Enjoy 🙂
These would feel nice inserted into my backside.
The small packets of recipe base mixes and herbs etc. I dont always use a whole packet at one time so always have open ones on the shelf.
All those packets of half eaten chips, biscuits and lollies! They are scattered all over the pantry!
Definitely my baking stuff & packet snacks.
The kids school snacks. I have half packets galore! With 3 boys there’s forever little hands getting into new found snacks! With saying that, my freezer comes a very close second!
Snacks area is regularly sabotaged by my family. Biscuits that do make it to a container are eaten and I find an empty container. But more annoying is the open packets just sitting there inviting ants, cockroaches, weevils. It would alot easier to simply Anylock the Gate!
Definitely my pasta section. My family loves pasta and I have so many different types in my pantry and it’s a mess.
My baking shelf, packets of flour, sugars, assortment of nuts, dried fruits, chocolate bits, desiccated coconut, sprinkles, little bottles of colouring, the list goes on….Help!
Biscuits and snacks. So many opened packets and boxes opened from the kids raiding the pantry for something to nibble on. Drives me crazy
All my bits and pieces for baking! Cocoa, chic chips, sugar, rice flour etc… they are always spilling out or spoiling before their time as they arent sealed properly. Would love to give Anylock a go!
The section with nuts and baking supplies!
My tea section! So many different packets of loose leaf tea, and they never all fit into their jars so I end up with half filled packets everywhere!
my most unorganised would be the bags of nuts that don’t fit into the jars, and the ones in my head. So much going on right now. Just trying to keep myself together.
My baking corner! Pesky choc chips and hazelnuts rolling out of packets that tip over, brown sugar going hard when the air gets in too long and puffs of spilt flour whenever I move anything.
My disorganized area is the cereals area, there is only so much Cera that fits in the containers and then I have packets that are opened.
i have just moved house and trying to fit a 4 bedroom house contents into a 3 bedroom half filled already house. The whole kitchen is kaos. i cant find anything and have no room. The pantry would have to be the worst. It is very small and I have a lot of double ups of half opened packets.
Linda, I know your pain. We moved to a house with a smaller kitchen. Slowly consolidating (er eating) our way to a smaller pantry need. The tub in the 3rd picture above is a great way of helping you do this (have several myself), along with those drawers of Kate’s.
I put my half opened packets of like items in one large-enough Tupperware container. For singles that are usually leftovers from full containers, I fold them over tightly then secured with a double round of sticky tape. Found some Sea Salt and peppercorns while looking for some flour for those lovely muffins I made while breakfast was cooking on Sunday.
Was trying out a recipe for homemade pasta in one pot. The only pasta I had was a kilo packet. Divided it into 4. Cooked one lot and bagged the other three lots for later experimenting. My first lot of experimenting was woeful and DH has named this dish GLUE, thanks to my heavy hand with the plain flour. So I am prepared with more pasta already to use. Just no ‘neat’ way to store the bags. I have Curry Glue for my lunch today. It was yummy! So here’s hoping the leftovers will be as good.
Definitely my cupboard in my large walk in panty. Its where all of those packets get stored. Usually I use an elastic band to keep them closed once open, but the Anylock idea sounds fantastic and one that would definitely be utilised in my pantry.
Kids snacks!
Slowly getting on top of things by being more organised in meal planning & therefore grocery buying. But buying bulk instead of multi packs of things means LOTS of open packets…
These are a great invention!
My most disorganised area is my baking area! So mich half opened bags at the top of the cupboard that I can’t see.
My whole pantry!! I have added tiered shelving so at least I can see things however the baking section needs serious attention. Clips just don’t cut it, I am forever finding desiccated coconut, cacao,
My whole pantry!! I have added tiered shelving so at least I can see things however the baking section needs serious attention. Clips just don’t cut it, I am forever finding desiccated coconut, cacao powder and coconut sugar everywhere. We live in a small old home with a tiny pantry so I don’t have room for many containers plus the moths are always a problem. This reusable, space saving solution is a winner!
My most disorganised section of my pantry is the open packets of dry goods. If I put half used packets of biscuits in a container, the kids or hubby will just go and open another packet without looking first. So frustrating and messy having the open packets in the shelves.
Most definitely the open packets of pasta, biscuits or bread. Closely followed by the mountains of tinned food that get buried in the back of the pantry.
The baking shelf, you only have to look sideways at it before a half open bag of flour comes tumbling down all over you!
The worst area is the snack section of our pantry. As the clips are in different colours I think I would give each child a different to make it easy for them to grab their packet, not someone else’s.
My spice section. It is so messy and crammed that I’m to scared to take them out and use them. Instead food has been tasting really bland lately with only salt and pepper being used these days for the family meals.
Its a battle between pasta in the pantry and frozen fruit in the freezer…. i try to embrace the mixed fruit and pasta suprise!
Our most disorganised area – it’s hard to pick one! Think it’s an equal first position to breakfast cereals – everyone in the family has their own favourite – and the snacks with half eaten bags of popcorn. The Anylocks would be fabulous at helping with both of these problems!
No particular as all areas are in caos and hard to find anything underneath the piles of stuff that gets shoved in there
My area in need is all the half eaten packets of chips and snacks!!! Arggg
Oh definitely my baking shelf. Half packets of pine nuts, walnuts, hundreds and thousands, choc chips you name it. They get so lost and end up out of the packet and on the shelf the floor or in the bin. Grrrr
the worst part is snacks pantry because we have lots of variety of snacks and it is impossible for me to put all the leftovers into the container
I make up my own muesli for the family so there are always bags of oats, flaxseed, bran, nuts, sultanas etc loose in the pantry. This would have to be the most disorganised and messy shelf of my pantry.
My baking shelf is in constant need of organising – doesn’t seem to matter how well I sort stuff into labeled containers there’re always a few new ingredients that float around in half opened packets or get shoved to the back of the shelves! Save me!
My baking shelf needs organizing.
Herbs in sachets. Where? Unknown.
Spice packets loose wherever they’re thrown.
There’s pantry mayhem! Things go splat…
AnyLocks for MY SPICES would solve all that!
Easy – cereals. Rice bubbles on the floor, weet bix exposed, stale cheerios and several packs of muesli. Sometimes they are still in their boxes, sometimes not, all are rarely sealed. Of a fairly shabby pantry this is a clear winner…..or loser!
I think my herbs and spices are my most disorganised, no matter how hard I try I always seem to have a sprinkling of basil or oregano decorating my pantry shelves 🙂
My cereals- with 3 boys we always have multiple packets on the go! These devices would help no-end! Thank you for the chance to try them out 🙂
The baking/snacks section are all mixed up at the moment, lots of opened packs (not sealed properly) and we frequently find expired packs since the unused packs stay in the bottom of the ever-growing pile…
The whole pantry is a shambles….mostly the spices
I don’t have a pantry. I only have 2 shelves in a corner cupboard that holds all our “pantry” items. So there’s an assortment of open pasta packets, dried fruits, spices etc all jumbled one on top of the other. Always fun when I put something in upside down and it all tumbles out everywhere. Oh to be more organised! And rich. I think if I was rich I would build a house with a big butlers pantry 🙂
Funnily enough, its the part were all the containers live! They are messy and mixed up!
All the little bags of spices in my pantry are a mess.
The messiest part of my pantry is the ‘baking section’ packets of sprinkles, 100s & 1000’s and decorations galore!
My whole pantry is a mess at the moment. We have a horrible deep pantry which means that every time I need something I have to move stuff to get at it. The result is that things just get randomly chucked back in where ever they may fit. Storage of kids snacks such as the little packets of biscuits, sultanas and muesli bars is also a problem area
Anywhere my twin boys can reach … They open my Tupperware containers and leave a corner open. The pantry moths had an early Christmas feast .
Snacks. Especially nuts and seeds.
My whole pantry is chaotic at the moment. I open it up everyday and just think to myself, “gosh I really need to do something about this!”.
My whole pantry is a nightmare, i am forever cleaning up spilled pasta or cereal, with a house full of boys each time they go to the cupboard one of the horrible open bags always end up tipped over
My most disorganised part of my pantry is the section containing condiment and stock etc.
Everywhere! But worst is baking section, choc bits, flour, sprinkles, vanilla etc!
My spices – they are in original packets with rubber bands, in containers, in ziplock bags and some even have sticky taped packets.
My pantry! I keep getting weevils in my pantry and they make a terrible mess
I would have to say my baking section with opened packets. Such as coconut, icing sugar, bakers flour etc, that you only use a small amount but buy in a large bag.
Also snacks, where the children leave the bags open.
I have been using the Anylock seals for over a week now and despite needing a double foldover for frozen peas and corn they have been perfect for all the other packets I have tried them on. I am really happy with them and would recommend them over pegs, rubber bands, IKEA clips … . In the 8 pack they didn’t have many suitable for small bags so my small baking stuff is still in a shoebox with rubber bands!
Thank you so much, Kat! I can’t wait to try the Anylock seals out. It will be so much better than using pegs, lacky bands & “el-cheapo” clips that don’t hold the seal tight enough or, worse still, break! Thank you once again for the prize. Kindest regards, Vicki
The most unorganised area of my pantry is the baking section…Hubby has Coeliac’s, so we have a gluten free and non gluten free section in our “pantry (ie a cupboard!) and there is nothing worse than cross contamination of the GF and non GF foods and it ends up being an expensive mistake! I have tried most clips on the market with no love 🙁 Id love to try the Anylock seals
Definitely the baking shelf half used bags of everything! I bought a Kleva Seal but found it didn’t work very well, these Anylock seals look like they would do the trick. But also my high shelves, things get put up there and lost forever!!