Being able to find what you need, when you need it is a major goal for organizing any area. With the refrigerator, however, it can be doubly important: every item in the fridge is perishable. This means, as the items in your refrigerator decay, health can be at risk, money is wasted, and odors permeate. When you organize your refrigerator, and are able to find what you need in your refrigerator storage, you are able to prepare meals quickly and easily.
Clean Your Fridge
The first organizing action for any area is to purge the area. For most areas, this can be emotional because it is not always easy to get rid of something you once loved. For the refrigerator, however, it's simple: if it is rotten, throw it away.
When organizing the refrigerator for the first time, removing everything from every shelf and drawer is necessary. Bring a garbage can over to fridge and throw away anything that is expired or anything that is mysterious; anything that is good can temporarily go on a counter.
When organizing the refrigerator to maintain, shelves and drawers can be scanned once a week prior to grocery shopping. In addition, prior to grocery shopping, pick one shelf or drawer, empty it, and wipe it down with soapy water.
Organize Your Refrigerator
To create the proper organized refrigerator storage, everything needs to be put back correctly by category. In addition, the proper storage methods and containers should be used. A shopping list can be used to keep inventory.
- Keep like items together.
- Keep condiments on door shelves.
- Make sure food storage containers are see-through, square shaped, from the same manufacturer (because they tend to stack better), and labeled.
- Keep taller items behind smaller items, in order to spot them easier.
- Keep fruits and vegetables in drawers and keep meets on the lowest shelf.
- Keep a shopping list on the fridge to note what to replace after it has been used. Also, write down what not to buy in case you have a couple bottles of ketchup sitting in the fridge.
Additional Tips to Organize Your Fridge
- Find recipes that use the items already in the fridge and freezer.
- Use clean open containers to store like items together including leftovers (use soon), new items (not open), and condiments (stop from flopping around).
- Use soda dispensers, instead of stacking sodas.
- Buy refrigerator helper shelves to create additional storage and to avoid the ability to stack items on top of each other.
For more information on kitchen organization watch kitchen organizing videos from experts.
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