Fridge Organisers - containers

[takingthepissoutofme]

I am so sick of food having no organisation in my fridge, If I can't see it I forget it's there and it goes off! I've looked on amazon for some and they all look pretty standard but I have a habit of going overboard and buying too much and over complicating things! Not every little thing needs to be in an organiser. I will be getting one for cheese items, one for yogurts/deserts, one for cooked meats, please share with my your tips and tried and tested methods for an organised fridge. I also forget about anything that goes in the salad drawers at the bottom to die.

sadly, I think this is one of those things that can’t be solved by a gadget.

I’m guilty of this too, but I don’t think there are any hacks or shortcuts.

I think you just need to look in your fridge and be more organised.

Its taken me years, but that’s the realisation I’ve recently come to….

You are right, i wasted my money, it was organised for half an hour

Now DH just puts random stuff in different containers and it's pissing me off more than before!

Oh no, im sorry to hear this.

i felt awful for pissing all over your idea and felt bad that nobody else came along with recommendations etc.

It’s just that I’ve bought all manner of storage and organisation things in the past and they don’t work. And the reason they don’t work is that I want things to be automated, and that’s just not possible. No matter how good your storage is, you need to actually be organised and put things in th storage.

I just find are no shortcuts sadly, if you want things to be organised, you just have to organise them

(and no, nothing in my house is tidy or organised)

I’m not familiar with specific fridge organiser containers, but if you have to take it out to take a lid off to put the thing in, then it is always going to be easier to just shove things in.
Could you use trays or shallow Tupperware type boxes without lids so that it is easy to put things in the right place? You could put big labels on maybe? Or put labels on the shelves?

An open tupperware box for cheese and everything else roughly grouped will be fine. You'll lose so much space if you put boxes in.

Keeping a shopping list and you'll only but what you need.

We have a large box for cheese as Im dairy free and DH loves cheese and doesn't wrap it so it leaves cheese crumbs everywhere! I tried another box for fruit but it failed.

The only solution I found to the "whats in the fridge" is check it whenever im making breakfast.

Solidarity!

I have fridge containers! They’re labelled too which helps (and means DH has no excuses). I just take a quick look each time I open the fridge for something and make sure it’s all in its place.

It’s a new change, it’ll take time to bed in! Can I also recommend sticky labels for sauces / jars - label when you opened them / need to bin them based on label instructions and it’ll help you keep things clear too.

I have one long, narrow container which is good for small things like babybells, peperami and halloumi that otherwise get shoved back and lost. Otherwise I tend to put the same things on the same shelf most times. For me, the least faff, the better.

The things which have helped me are those stick on shelves that twist around. We’re an ingredients household and have a lot of jars and condiments so one is dedicated to those. The other I use for yogurts and that type of thing.
Other than that I have those stacking containers you get for cooked meat and a long container that’s useful for pouch yogurts.

Clear plastic drawer container things. Absolute game changer. We have a cheese drawer, and any that doesn't fit in goes on top of it. So now we know were all the cheese is. Same for butter. And one for "bits" like garlic, chilli, herbs. But they must be drawers, not just containers.

I bought a lidless clear plastic container for our bottom shelf, that houses all raw meat. I was always missing chicken breasts, say, that had got shoved behind something.

This kind of thing. As a PP said, if you use boxes that you have to pull out and open separately, it never works. And a friend of mine got stacking boxes, but that means it's a pain to get the stuff out of the bottom one. Drawers, all the way.

Vtopmart 4 Pack Stackable Storage Drawers,Clear Acrylic Drawer Organizers with Handles, Easily Assemble for Fridge, Bathroom,Kitchen Undersink,Cabinet,Pantry Organization and Storage : Amazon.co.uk: Home & Kitchen

Wish I had seen these before I bought the other containers!