Storing Tinned Goods

calleyw

I have been looking for a way to store tinned goods so that I can use them in expiry date order.

I have looked and found some can storage from amazon.com that allows you to drop the newest in the top and oldest comes out of the bottom.

I have a lot of tinned fruit and tins of soup. And I am bad hang my head in shame just tend to bung the new on the top of the others.

How do you store yours?

I really need something that is cheap and quick to use or make. I have found a few. wanted to see how others deal with it.

Thanks in Advance.

Yours

Calley

adelight

I don't really keep any tins long enough for it to be a problem, but when I clean the cupboards every few months I reorganise everything.

caitybabes

I tend to have a 'spares' cupboard, so only keep a few tins of beans/chopped toms/soup in the 'working easy access' cupboard, and top it up from the spares cupboard. This seems to help as when I buy new tins they go in the spares cupboard and then get transferred to the working cupboard only when the oldest tins have been used.

Hope that helps cait x

bramble1

I have a spare's drawer in my hallway, one of everything i need goes in the kitchen, the rest lives in the drawer

dreamyd

We keep our tins in the utility room (more of a large cupboard really) as the kitchen is of hamster-swinging proportions, with any excess put on shelves in our spare room. When the next Approved Food delivery comes in on Wednesday, that will go upstairs until more space is created in the downstairs storage.

rachbc

i keep extra on shelves in t5he cellar - bringing a couple at a time up to use - when Iput them on the shelves I pull whats there forward and tuck the new ones in behind

oldtractor

WE keep ours in cardboard boxes under the bed.

scottishminnie

I use a black marker pen and either mark the use by date on the lid or on a white sticky label which I put somewhere on the top or front (depending on which cupboard I'm storing them in). I'm pretty picky but I find it's easier than having to turn them around and upside down to find the date.

I try to work from the front to back - new stuff goes to the back and we use from the front. Sometimes though goods bought months apart can have shorter use by dates on the most recently bought ones so it's always worth checking.

toothfairybuttkicker

We keep a list on the door and colour coded dots on tins ie Blue=jan, Red= feb, Yellow=March, Green=April, Silver=May, blue+red= june, Blue +yellow= july, Blue +green = August, blue silver=september, red+yellow=october, red+green=November, Yellow+green= december

dots are from leftover christmas wrapping twpe ans electirical tape from car boots, 10p a roll lasts for ages

bluebag

I have the usual kitchen cupboard and a spares box under the sideboard. I fill up the cupboard from the spares box putting recent stuff at the back, then put the new stuff from my shopping in the spares box.

I just rotate everything as it would take me too long to find my reading glasses to check the expiry dates.

anguk

I have some in the kitchen cupboards and the rest goes upstairs under beds. I must admit we're not very good at rotating the cans, new stuff often ends up in front of old.

If you type "can rotation" into youtube there's quite a few tutorials to make one from cardboard. I have noticed the Americans seem to be more into food storage than the Brits, I couldn't find any UK sites that sell can rotation storage.