Easy Ways to Organize Food Storage Containers
May 13, 2015If you are tired of the mess in the cabinets of your kitchen, perhaps it is time to do something about it. Organizing this part of your home often is a good idea but, unfortunately, the results of your work may not last for long. If you want to be sure that everything will stay in place and you will have easy access to all of your food storage containers, you will have to come up with another organizing system. In case you keep Tupperwear and all sorts of other containers in your cabinets, now is the best time to organize them in a new way, which will allow you to use them any time you like without wasting time.
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Since you will be organizing your kitchen cabinets, this will be a great moment for one deep cleaning of this area as well. For the purpose, you will have to get everything out and disinfect every corner of your cabinets with a special cleaning product. If you don't have one, you can simply use a mix or vinegar and water. When you are done and the surface of your cabinets is dry, you can move on to the organizing of your food storage containers. We will give you some ideas which will make speed up the whole process. The important thing is to make things as easy for you as possible.
· Organizing by size – There is no need to come up with complicated ideas for the simple organisation of the containers in which you will later store your food. One way you can do that is to arrange them by size. You can put the smaller containers in the larger ones and then designate a special place for them in your cabinets. This will save you a lot of space, especially if you have various other things which you keep in there. Don't forget about the lids which each containers needs to preserve your food. You can lean them against one of the sides of your cabinet, so that they are always close to the containers. You can organize them by size as well.
· Using pull-out cabinet organizer – This is a very smart ideas which you will certainly appreciate. The size of the pull-out organizer depends entirely on the free space you have in your cabinets. It is better to install this device in the lower cabinets of your kitchen, so that it is easier for you to take it out whenever you need a container. It will be best to get an organizer which has dividers. This way you will be able to arrange all lids by size in the back and leave the containers in the front. You won't have to worry that they could get mixed up or that you could lose them.
· Labelling – This is another great idea you could try. If you often store the same food in particular containers, you can simply label their lids. This will make things much easier for you when you are in a hurry but you can't find the right container you are looking for. This will also solve the problem with the mixing of the lids and the containers. You can put the same number on the lid and on the bottom of the container it belongs to and saves a lot of time.
There are many ways you can organize your food storage containers, so feel free to use your imagination or ask around for more interesting ideas. Just remember to keep only the containers which you actually use. The good thing about the cleaning of your cabinets is that you will have the chance to throw out all the things you don't need, including the old and damaged containers, as well as the ones which have no lids.
The article is a guest post by Domestic Cleaners Hammersmith
Acknowledgement: Edna Thomson