This is how you organize and store food in the refrigerator

Organizing the fridge is important for several reasons. It is of course a matter of knowing what you have in the fridge so that the food does not become old because it is forgotten in a fridge drawer, for example. Which of course is unnecessary and throwing the money down the drain. In addition, it is not environmentally friendly.

Another important aspect is that you naturally want fresh food without bacteria. For that reason, it is very important to organize the refrigerator and keep it clean and fresh.

Organize and group items

One way to keep track of what you have in the fridge is to group the items carefully. The standard equipment usually includes a storage box refrigerator. These boxes are usually equipped with a ventilation system that keeps vegetables and fruits fresh.

A tip here is to supplement with refrigerator drawers to group even more effectively. You can have fruit in one box, vegetables and root vegetables in another. If there are several of you in the family who all eat breakfast together, a tip is to have a ready-made breakfast box in the fridge. There you can defend things like toppings, butter, the children's favorites and more.

Clean and throw away old food

Of course, organizing the fridge also requires continuous cleaning and cleaning out the fridge. It's a work in progress and it might be good to have it written on the calendar, so that you do it with such regularity that there aren't too many jars of old taco sauce and other stuff at the back of the shelves.

For smaller jars such as olives and the like, it can be an excellent idea to have small boxes for storage in the fridge where you can easily access what you have. Then you can, for example, have olives, capers and pickled chillies in one box and béarnaise and other flavored sauces in another.

Placement of goods in the refrigerator door

Worth considering may also be that there is not necessarily milk or yogurt in the refrigerator door. In fact, such goods feel better if left cold. There are also products that are less sensitive that can be placed on the shelves in the refrigerator door.

Here, too, it is a great solution to use a suitable box to place the milk in. Then it is just a matter of pulling out and taking out when needed. In the refrigerator door, you can instead store things like pots of salad, which don't feel good at all from being too cold in the fridge.

Sauces, broths, mayonnaise and pickled vegetables are instead perfectly suited to standing in the refrigerator door. You also avoid forgetting them because they are not visible.

Things that you don't need to store in the fridge

Many times we store food in the fridge that does not need to be in the fridge at all. Eggs are one such product. Then it is also important that you follow the best before date, while you can use them much longer if they are kept in the refrigerator.

Many people store potatoes in the fridge, but it's not really advisable at all. The starch in the potatoes then turns into sugar in the fridge and the potatoes get a poorer consistency and taste. So if you have the opportunity to store the potatoes somewhere else where it is dry, dark and cool, it is much more suitable and you get much more space in the fridge.