What do you put in that third canister?

Anything that you use often like:
Rice
Tea Bags
Grits
Confectioner Sugar
Coffee
Kool-Aid packs

I put coffee beans in mine:)

The canister sets I’ve owned came in a set a four. I think originally the purpose was flour, sugar, coffee and tea. Over the years, I’ve kept a variety of things in them like rice, beans, garlic, ginger root, confectioner’s sugar and yes, Kool-Aid packets.

I’d put coffee, tea, or rice in it.

If I didn’t have kids, I’d put M&Ms in it. :)

If the lid is pretty air tight then coffee is a good idea… just about anything will work… even colored marbles would look cool if you have no food ideas! pasta would work or fresh herbs too.

Get some pretty wrapping paper—or a large repeating-design color printout of M&Ms—and line the third canister with it, design side facing out. Then you can put a bag of brown sugar, a box of Sweet’n’Low, extra Starbucks and Togo’s napkins, a lifetime supply of Qtips, or anything else you want in that third canister and nobody has to know.

since they are clear, how about macaroni or rainbow rotini?

Mine are tin, and also came in a set of 4 – flour, sugar, tea, coffee. I have a set of 4 plastic containers that hold brown sugar, powdered sugar, rice, and bags of oatmeal.

Oats for oatmeal!

I have tea bags and breakfast bars in mine. My neighbor keeps cookies and crackers and mixed nuts in his. One of my friends keeps individually wrapped hard candies in hers. And another friend keeps psyllium husk in hers.

If I had an extra one that was clear, I might put dried red pepper flakes in one (I put that on all sorts of things and go through a lot of it) and dried apricots or dried cranberries in another. And any kind of nuts.

Cash and shotgun shells.shhhhhh!

Cornmeal.

I put chocolate chips in my third one.

I don’t put anything in them usually. Mine are antiques and though they are labeled, they aren’t air tight so they are just for show.