Fridge Organiser

[pateandbrie]

Trying to organise my life and I've fallen in love with those videos of people filling their fridges with beautiful clear plastic organisers full of very organised chilled goods. But I have questions!

• Does anyone use these in real life or is it just a tiktok thing?

• if you do use them, which ones do you use? Just been on Temu and there are millions...

• are they actually going to improve my life/keep my fridge clean and organised or are they just more clutter? Am trying to eradicate clutter!

Thoughts?

I have a few baskets, one for cheese, one for cooked meat, one for whole fruit. Beyond that I think it’s insta nonsense. Who can be arsed to decant blueberries?

a decent wine rack and can dispenser are good. But measure your fridge internals before buying anything.

Beware buying from Temu - there are several warnings about them.

And to answer your question - I use baskets - for cheese, for jars of "sauce", for some veg, for butter.

thanks @guzzleandstuff - you're probably right about Temu - they just came up on Facebook with an advert for fridge organisers EXACTLY WHEN I WAS THINKING ABOUT THEM which is why I ended up down a Temu wormhole.

I'm very much in two minds about this.

I use plastic container draw things from amazon for loose fruit x 2, loose veg x 2, cheese in one. I like them and easy to organise

I bought some fridge organisers in Sainsbury’s, and love them, they have made such a difference. I bought 2 thin ones, and one wider one. I put jars and small loose items like ginger and limes in the narrower ones, and petit filous, juice cartons, peppers etc in the wider one.

I have watched a video online of a Japanese lady who prepares and cuts all her vegetables for the week on the say she buys them and stores them in neat Tupperware boxes in her fridge, and I now also plan to do this. It’ll save time during the week, and make eating more healthily an easier option on really difficult days when frozen chips would usually be easier!

I also have my pasta, lentils and rice in clear boxes from Matalan, and all my main store cupboard ingredients for Japanese, Chinese and Thai cooking are all stored in Ikea boxes. I aspire for pretty much my whole kitchen to be packaged into boxes!

I've had a cheeses box for years and it's dead handy. We'e gone through phases when a deli meats box worked as well, although these days we don't have as much use for it because the kids get lunch in school.

I do love all the organisation but I don't think anything else in our fridge would really benefit from it (other than boxes of leftovers, but they're temporary).

In our awkward corner dried goods press, I have a big plastic baking box, a carbs box (pasta, rice, cous cous, that sort of thing) and a bottled ingredients box, purely because it's impossible to see what's in the press unless you can take out a whole box at a time. There's also a smaller chocolate spreads box, because we had too many flavours to not box them, but I hope to eat those down to a more easily organised number.

In the crappy little herbs and spices press, there's a box on each shelf so you can take everything out at once, again for easy visibility.

I do love a categorised kitchen.

This is basically what I aspire to too! I have a sort of larder cupboard thing which has most things arranged in ikea boxes but my fridge definitely lets the side down!

@pateandbrie

The boxes make me feel calmer.

The fridge storage definitely makes it easier to keep the fridge clean too, as if something makes a mess in one, the spill can only spread within the container rather than the whole fridge shelf.