5 EASY freezer organizing ideas to simplify your life and meal prep!
Save time and make your life easier with these simple freezer organization tips!
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Built In Organization
Maximize the organization that comes with your upright freezer.
Does it have baskets? Trays? Use them to the fullest, then buy additional freezer bins as needed.
Upright freezers are incredible useful and storage efficient – plus they are much easier on your back than a chest freezer!
A upright freezer is fabulous for saving money!
- Buy meat on sale and have a stock of stewing beef and hamburger to make chilis and stews.
- Make batches of instant pot meals, soups and casseroles to store in the freezer, that are grab and go for those busy weekday nights!
- If your a new Mom, and love to make and freeze your own baby food, an upright freezer is a must-have! These freezer storage bins are perfect for storing baby food, baby formula, food pouches ect.
Everything is so easy to see and find!
Here are 5 Easy & Do-able Freezer Organizing Ideas
1. Store lightest items at the top and heaviest items at the bottom.
Store bread, bagels, hot dog and hamburger buns on the top drawer and meat near the bottom.
If you happen to drop a frozen package of meat – it doesn’t have too far to fall to the floor, or on your toes!
2. Use plastic baskets to separate and contain your food
I use these freezer stackable storage bins with handles – they are so handy and easy to pull out and slide in.
I use one to store frozen waffles, one for vegetables, one for skillet meals and one for packaged hamburger and beef for tacos, fajitas, stews and chilis.
It’s all so easy to find and pull out what I want to make for supper!
These clear stackable freezer storage bins are amazing too if you like the clear look. I use them in my refrigerator. It’s completely your preference if you like the clear or white.
3. Label the bins
I’m obsessed with this handy label maker to make labels for the baskets – labels make everything easy for me, hubby and our boys to see at a glance.
This label printer is portable – so handy!
I also use these freezer markers (they use water resistant ink and are smudge proof!) to label freezer bags of hamburger and beef from bulk amounts that I buy.
I weigh meat with a food scale into amounts required for my favorite recipes. So if I’m making tacos or a casserole I can find a bag of hamburger with exactly the right amount!
4. Store items flat and stack them
Stacking frozen food flat will not only save space but once again, it makes it all so much easier to see.
5. Keep an inventory of freezer contents
I use a small dry erase board and dry erase marker that I keep on a shelf in the freezer door to inventory the freezer contents.
This inventory is a handy way to let me know when certain items are getting low in stock and so I can keep my eye out for sales.
I hope you like these freezer organization tips!
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I love the basket idea, Heather!! Will pick some up the next time I’m at the dollar store to add to my own upright. And I love mine too. Except that it’s not a self-defrost and so I have to defrost it myself. A job that’s on the to do list but never seems to get done!
LOL – I have a list of those kinds of jobs too Heather!! The baskets work great and I’ll be picking up more too!
I started using stainless steel bins that fit party buffet stands that are from restaurant supply store to hold different food groups. You can put right in dishwasher when cleaning. Tried the plastic and it didn’t hold up well for me. Hope you have more success. I love that my freezer is in kitchen now after our remodel 6 yrs ago.
Thanks for the helpful tips Lois – the stainless steel bins sound fabulous! I’d love my freezer to be in the kitchen – you must really love that!
We moved from Iowa to Washington State last May and I miss our freezer. We finally have room in the garage to put a freezer and have been looking for a frost free one. Up right is the way to go as a chest type if hard to keep things organized. We will be putting in a garden but won’t be able to grow corn or potatoes because the yard is smaller. Just found your site and will be trying the art work project.
Thanks
Our garden is small too Ramona! I hope you get to take a look at this Frigidaire freezer when you shop for yours – yes upright is the answer! Thanks for visiting and have fun with the art work project too!
Wow! Lucky you! Thanks for the great tips!!
Your welcome for the tips Amy and yes – I’m loving having a freezer to stock up on frozen food sales to save money!
How fabulous Heather!! Love it and the tips!!
Nancy
Thanks Nancy! I can’t wait to start freezing up crockpot meals and casseroles now that I have the space! I love the idea of thaw, heat and serve homemade meals!
Great tips and what a beautiful freezer! Remember when they were so ugly you had to hide them? 🙂 xo
Wow. Ok this freezer sounds pretty awesome. I have a small deep freezer chest but things just get lost in it! I would LOVE an upright one! And I need to get to the store to get some bins! I love how you organized everything! Thanks for the tips.
Wow, I have some work to do! My deep freezer is a disaster. I love the idea of using baskets to organize the freezer, that’s such a great idea.
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We have a bottom drawer freezer that is driving me crazy! I’ll adapt your ideas for this. Thank you!
You’re welcome Kathy!!! I hope these ideas help you! 🙂
We had a chest type freezer and I hated it because I would lose things in it. We donated it and I am ashamed to say I found 2 hams that I didn’t know I had. I also have an eraser board on the door of our upright freezer. When I come home from the store I also weigh out and repackage our food. When I take the ground beef, I weigh it, place it in a bag and flatten it down. I freeze it laying on it side and then once it is frozen, I file it in a basket standing up. I can clearly see what I have and it is easier to find afterwards. I do this with all the meat I purchase. Hope it helps.
FABULOUS tips Patty! Thanks so much for sharing them! I’ll be using your ground beef freezing idea – love that!
This is an amazing idea! Thanks for sharing. Hi, I’m Anita visiting from Link Party Palooza.
Anita – thanks for visiting and your lovely comments! Glad you find these freezer organizing ideas helpful!
Hi! Love the freezer! Where do I get the larger basket drawers that you have in your freezer. There’s so much space in between shelves these would work great
Same!!! I need info on the long storage tray/plastic bin!