I have two freezers in my kitchen, a large one and a smaller one, and I'm ashamed to say that I have allowed each of them to become a "frozen wasteland." My mission this week is to get both of them organized and to discard items that I have pushed back and left unused for too long.
This is the larger of my freezers and it is stuffed!
This one is smaller, and it is just as bad. I have a lot of different flours in this freezer for baking, along with various other items, but I decided one way I could organize would be to use this smaller freezer exclusively to store my extra baking supplies.
When I got to sorting things out, I found some duplicates of the same products in both freezers.
After sorting through all the different products, I found that this freezer is just about the right size for all the extra baking supplies I keep on hand.
My larger freezer was a little more difficult to get organized. I had more items to discard that were out of date, and I needed a way to keep the food from getting pushed back, covered up, and forgotten like I had let happen before.
I added some baskets in the shelves to hold some of the items like these that were packaged in plastic bags.
I also added a smaller basket for items like my extra baked goods. I utilized the built in baskets to separate meats in one and vegetables in the other.
My larger freezer was a little more difficult to get organized. I had more items to discard that were out of date, and I needed a way to keep the food from getting pushed back, covered up, and forgotten like I had let happen before.
I know that some people organize their freezers by doing an inventory sheet and keeping a running list of their frozen food stock, but I am quite certain that I would not successfully keep an inventory sheet updated. I am just happy to have the freezers sorted out by category and organized with some new baskets. I think this kind of sorting and grouping will help me to permanently get rid of my "frozen wasteland."
This is the larger of my freezers and it is stuffed!
This one is smaller, and it is just as bad. I have a lot of different flours in this freezer for baking, along with various other items, but I decided one way I could organize would be to use this smaller freezer exclusively to store my extra baking supplies.
When I got to sorting things out, I found some duplicates of the same products in both freezers.
After sorting through all the different products, I found that this freezer is just about the right size for all the extra baking supplies I keep on hand.
My larger freezer was a little more difficult to get organized. I had more items to discard that were out of date, and I needed a way to keep the food from getting pushed back, covered up, and forgotten like I had let happen before.
I added some baskets in the shelves to hold some of the items like these that were packaged in plastic bags.
I also added a smaller basket for items like my extra baked goods. I utilized the built in baskets to separate meats in one and vegetables in the other.
My larger freezer was a little more difficult to get organized. I had more items to discard that were out of date, and I needed a way to keep the food from getting pushed back, covered up, and forgotten like I had let happen before.
I know that some people organize their freezers by doing an inventory sheet and keeping a running list of their frozen food stock, but I am quite certain that I would not successfully keep an inventory sheet updated. I am just happy to have the freezers sorted out by category and organized with some new baskets. I think this kind of sorting and grouping will help me to permanently get rid of my "frozen wasteland."
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