After finally taking the time to listen to Jen, I pulled the top six shelves down out of the pantry and replaced them with deeper versions spaced further apart. Instead of spending lots of cash on new lumber, I recycled the shelves from the doctor’s exam room out on the porch, kicking off the process of remodeling that space. (strange factoid: the exam room was wallpapered with a fox hunting pattern at one point. Very, very strange.)

The original version of the pantry didn’t allow enough room for multiple stacked items, and the shelves were too shallow to hold more than a can and a half of food. The new shelves are double the depth and have two extra inches of height, so they should be able to hold anything we can think of.