When you’ve planned to make a meatloaf and discover you’re out of bread crumbs the choice becomes cook something else or get creative. Having the kitchen storage containers immediately visible helps us to know when they’re empty. When the container is inside the pantry running out of bread crumbs can and does happen.
If you still have bread in the house bread crumbs are only a toaster away. A neat trick that takes very little time and doesn’t upset the dinner plans is making some toast and either crumbling it by hand or in the food processor. Even if you’ve made too much at least you know you’ve got room in the storage container for the extra.