

They all seem to have pretty much the same design. The $1 bargain brand plastic spice containers from the big box stores and dollar stores work equally well. If you normally buy name brand spices at the grocery store, you will probably have plenty of empty mccormick spice bottles and other brands to work with. You don’t always need the sifter, but it’s definitely convenient when you do.

A few have dual sift and pour caps with a lift-able lid. Spice bottles come with caps, some of which are attached or screw-on, and they also typically have a “sifter fitment” or “sifter or shaker disk” which is either a separate fitted disk that sits over the bottle opening, or it is either attached to or is incorporated into the bottle cap itself. 5 ounce mini round spice containers work even better for smaller items. The average spice bottle holds between 1.5 to 4 ounces, which is perfect when you just need a small container for storage. Upcycled spice jars are a great alternative to buying small plastic storage containers upcycling is good on your wallet and conserving storage space. We now reuse both the glass spice jars as well as the plastic spice containers for way more purposes than we ever intended. In the process of looking for camping solutions we found multiple other practical uses for our empty spice bottles. For now we’ll just focus on everyday uses. More on how empty spice containers were used for camping is further down the page. If you are not camping in a big RV, space is always at a premium.

But while we were planning for a recent camping trip we were trying to come up with storage solutions for several scenarios. We don’t like clutter (who does), and in the past would normally throw out empty spice containers.
