Maintaining a clean and organised fridge is one of the easiest ways to keep yourself healthy day to day.
It’s tremendously important to store your food properly in the fridge, particularly meats. You must keep raw meats separate from cooked meats.
We’ve compiled a useful list of organisational hacks. These should allow you to get the very best out of the food you buy. As we know, this is very important in this day and age of cost-cutting.
Label
To ensure you, and other people in your household, maintain your fridge safety, you can label different parts of your fridge to ensure the right food ends up in the right place.
Here’s a great machine which will help you to create labels.
This way, all your meats will stay in the right place and will all be safe to eat
You could use small boxes within your fridge. Or, simply, label the parts of your fridge that already exist such as drawers or shelves.
Use ball glass jars
When storing fresh produce, you can use ball glass jars or storage bottles with tight lids to always keep them fresh.
Storing them in these jars with a little bit of water can extend the life of fresh vegetables for up to three more weeks.
Using tall jars can also save space when you place them within the fridge doors.
Add multi-purpose bins to a fridge
You can use multi-purpose storage bins to separate different portions or types of food.
You can place food for breakfast in one, snacks within another, and meats for other meals in the other.
Take a look at your fridge’s vegetable cabinets now and see if you have them organised. If not, maybe think about how you can use them to neaten up your fridge.
Organise bottles using clips
Bottles are difficult to organise in your fridge. They roll around when laid down.
Well, we have a hack for you! You can use binder clips to pin bottles in place if, for example, you wish to pile beers in a pyramid form.
So the next time you get home after a long day’s work, you can just easily grab a bottle of beer and relax on the sofa.
Use egg boxes for bottles
You may have thought that egg boxes could only be used for eggs. But when you’ve nommed all the yummy eggs, you can press the box into further use as a holder for your squeezy condiment bottles.
Your bottles can remain in place within your fridge, or indeed cupboard, depending on your kitchen preferences. If you put them top side down, all the lovely sauce will be ready to be squeezed out immediately.
Magnets
Magnets and fridges go way back. For years people have been remembering their past holidays by sticking themed magnets to the front of the door. But now there is an all-new way to use them in your fridge.
You can stick the magnet to the inside of the wall as well! And if you have any magnetic tins, cans or containers, you can stick them to the fridge wall using a magnet. Then, fill them with goodies.
Nuts, or other small items, are always good to store in these types of containers.
“Eat me first” bin
Sometimes the sell-by date can have a big impact on which food you may be reaching for when you head to the fridge.
With that in mind, wouldn’t it be great if you had all that food in the same place in an “eat me first” bin? Now you’ll know exactly where you should reach for food that is nearing the end of its useful life.
This also will help when you have multiple items which are the same, particularly milk. You may have bought the new one but want to use the final dregs in the old carton. This system will sort that problem with ease.
Add a rotating tray to your fridge
One of our favourite organisation hacks is adding a rotating tray inside your fridge for easy access.
You can reach the back of your fridge easily with a rotating tray. Rotate the food to the front and return it to its original position when you’re done.
You’ll now not have to pick other items out of your fridge in order to access the food you want.
Cover the fridge with a plastic lining
Now, a part of organising is keeping things neat and tidy.
Before you put anything in your fridge or when you’re cleaning the inside, place a sheet of plastic on the tray to act as a placemat.
With a plastic placemat in place, it’ll be so easy to clean your fridge if any accidental spillage occurs when moving things around or taking food out of your fridge.
Use Sealable Bags
Meal prepping and organising your fridge will be even more simple if you use our sealable bags hack.
You can separate food per meal or even keep leftovers in these bags and line them up nicely side-by-side so your fridge will look neat.
You can also combine other points we’ve mentioned earlier by ordering them in the order in which they should be eaten. Then, put a label on each bag sharing what is in the bag and by when it should be consumed.
Let’s get your fridge organised!
Hopefully, this blog has inspired you or given you ideas to reorganise your fridge to make access to your favourite foods simple and sanitary.
Adding bins and containers can help you separate things to keep them in order. Labels can help you locate things easily. They can even tell your family members what to consume first before opening a new carton of milk.
The possibilities are endless and keeping a creative mind will reveal more hacks for keeping your kitchen organised and clean.
Coming soon to Yavolo in September 2023, are even more ways to organise your home.
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