Help....how do you organize you chest freezer

cheerfulness4

Do exactly the same with carriers. Farmfoods one houses the veg, etc. Hadn't really thought of colour coding the others, just catergorising into food types so I'll pinch that idea, krlyr.

Anoneemoose

Thanks! Some fab ideas there. I am terrible for leaving things for ages and forgetting they are there! Then I end up throwing stuff 'just in case'!! Can't help thinking it will be worse when I have piles of stuff.

krlyr

I keep an inventory of what's in there - every once in a while I'll go through and then make some meal plans to use up what we've got, saves things festering for ages because I've forgotten about it!

tessie_bear

mine is a shambles and need to get it sorted out...i find the mand s small bight carrier bags are useful as very visible....i have had lists but forget to update them...still prefer the chest freezer as can keep akward shaped stuff in there but hard to keep tidy

THIRZAH

I have a chest freezer in the garage which we mainly use for fruit, veg and bread.

Stuff which I know I want to keep for a while-mainly fruit from the garden- goes in the very bottom in boxes from Lakeland. I can fit nine across the base of the freezer-three rows of three-and I label them on the lid. The boxes were expensive but have lasted for several years.

I have some smaller versions of the same boxes which I use for things like soup and tomato sauce which I make in bulk so I stack those on top of the fruit.

After that it does get a bit of a mess with bags of shop-bought frozen veg etc. I'll try the colour coded plastic bag idea, if I can find bags. We tend to take our own bags when shopping now. I may have to raid DDs vast store of them !