What you want to do is:

• Group specific items together as much as possible and determine where each group of items will go.   You will want to group things like spices, oils and baking supplies and if you use them often store them in an easily accessible location in your pantry.  If you have a lot of spices you may want to look at some spice racks that you can put in your pantry to help keep them all in one location, like a 3 tier wall mounted spice rack.
• You will want to group all of your canned goods and sauces together.  These generally require more room because you usually have a lot more of these items on hand.
• If you have kids or just like to munch throughout the day, then you most likely have snacks in your pantry. Put these in a spot thats about eye level where you can quickly grab a snack without rummaging through everything.

The easiest thing is to take a look around your pantry and quickly identify the items you have and write down on a piece of paper what groups you will need so you can map out where each one will go. This will save you a lot of time rearranging the items because you find yourself not having enough room for a specific group.

If you have a hard time remembering where the groups go or have a large family that will be in and out of your pantry often you may want to consider labeling the sections of your pantry.  This will help everyone put things away in the right spot and save you a lot of frustration.  This doesn’t have to be anything fancy or permanent.  Just a simple label maker will do the trick or even some masking tape and a marker.  Once you and your family are used to the new layout of your pantry cabinet you can remove the labels.

Every pantry cabinet is going to be different and so you will need to experiment with the best layout for your pantry.  Try installing some pantry shelving especially If you need to divide a larger shelf into sections, measure and cut some particle board to make dividers or use a piece of tape to divide the shelf in half.   Once your pantry is all nice and organized it will save you a lot of time and frustration trying to find what you need and you can check another “to do” off of your home organization check list.  If you do not have a pantry cabinet in your kitchen,  visit a few online retailers to check out the various types of pantry cabinets that will work in your kitchen.  You may find that this is what you needed to help keep your kitchen organized.