I have an English essay to do and I chose the topic of organizing the kitchen food cupboard since I don’t know how to do anything else. I’m actually not sure of how to do a kitchen cupboard either so I would appreciate any tips and ideas from ya’ll. For instance, alphabetize spices, put items that may become infested with insects in a sturdy plastic container, etc.
It’s due in just a few days, so please help me… 
Put more recently purchased items behind or underneath older items so the older ones get used first.
Organize by category: canned veggies together, baking goods together, cereals together, etc.
That’s all I’ve got at the moment. Good luck!
Oh, thank you! Thank you! If you can think of anything else…I have to come up with 4 pages worth.
Face all labels forward so you can see what you have.
Put smaller items in front of taller ones.
Stack similarly-sized items (so you can have one neat column of tuna cans, for example).
Put the stuff you use most often in easily-accessible areas (in front), and that jar of weird Indian cooking sauce you picked up as an impulse buy in the back, where it won’t be in your way all the time.
Push everything back as far as possible so you don’t waste space behind items.
Wire baskets on sliding rails are your friends. It is a trade-off; they take up a little extra room, but they make more stuff easily accessible. (Ease of access is not a specific tip, but an overarching principle)
Small stacking baskets are useful as well; you can just pull out the basket you need and rummage around in it, rather than delving into the dark cupboard. These are especially good for deep cupboards.
Lighting is also an oft overlooked aspect; you can get small lights and mount them under the shelves so you can actually see into the cupboards. Wiring them all up can be a bit of a project though, and proper care must be taken not to set any of your foodstuffs on fire.
You can re-container foods that come in large quantities; just because you buy your sugar in 10 lb bags doesn’t mean you have to store 10 lbs of sugar in the cupboard. Get a sealed 1-lb container and fill it, then store the rest of the bulk items in the garage/pantry/wherever.
Square containers fit more efficiently than round ones.
Always put perishables (fruit, etc) somewhere you can see it. It’s far to easy to forget about it and have nasty spoiled food.
Most cupboards have equally spaced shelves. Often it’s to your advantage to add or rearrange the shelves, so short items don’t have a lot of wasted space above them. Put the shorter spaces at the bottom for high cupboards, and on the top for low cupboards. This allows more shelves to be within easy reach.
That’s all I got. I’m sure there are more ideas out there though.
I generally group foods together.
Right now I have a cereal shelf, directly below it is the pancake mix/flour/cakemixes and sugar (bulky powders, basically).
THen I have canned meats grouped, fruits grouped, then veggies, then canned soups. Next are powdered soups, then powdered ‘other’ items, such as chili powders and dips in packets.
I also keep dried beans and rices together.
Finally, I segregate out course-foods, boxed pasta/dinner kits, and I have a small area set aside for “emergency” snacky/kid food, like ghram crackers and instant heat foods.
On the bottom of the pantry are large ass containers for dry goods (cat foods, huge sacks of rice or tubs of oil) and sodas/juices.
Since it’s your homework, I think you should do some of it, right?