How to Organize Your Deep Freezer

Terrific idea! Thanks for sharing this one! I'm on my way to Target :) I've been searching for a way to organize my freezers forever. I've used plastic grocery bags in the past to at least separate foods into groups but those are too fragile for the freezer and rip too easily. I'll most certainly give this a try. Thanks!

Sue G.

Thanks! I have a chest freezer that I can never find anything in! This is a great solution - thanks!

Jo

I did something similar to this after I discovered I had 6 bags of frozen chopped spinach!

Sue

This is a great idea but quick question - how well has the plastic held up with the freezing? Curious to know if better to try and locate metal basket style one so they don't crack?

Diane

Great idea, Snack Girl! You could use scaled-down (shorter) bins, or jelly roll pans, on the very top of if you still have a bit of space. Thanks for the idea!

Robin

Thanks for the great tip, I am always struggling to find what I need in mine, Great Idea

VERILLE HANSON

I use recycled shopping bags that I purchased at the dollar store. I use red bag for beef, yellow bag for poultry and a pink for pork. This has made my life a lot easier. I've been using the same bags for years.

Nancy Thrower

How would you organize an up right freezer ?

Patsy Cruse

My first thought was maybe make one shelf beef, one shelf pork and one shelf chicken. I do not have an upright freezer. Hopefully someone else can answer your question.

Nancy Thrower

To organize my upright freezer, I put all proteins (meat, chicken, fish, etc) on the top shelf,

Homemade freezer meals and store bought freezer meals on the second from the top, breads and desserts on the next lowest and veggies and fruits on the lowest. Often the fruit migrates to the bread and dessert shelf because the veggies take over ....I allow some flexibility. Frozen broth usually goes on the door with all the little bit of things like frozen nuts, herbs, salsa, etc (I like to buy the large jars of salsa and freeze half jars as I don't go through it fast enough). In the fridge freezer, the left side of the top drawer has bacon bits, and other miscellaneous stuff, the right top has bread, and desserts, the bottom right has a large zip lock of bits of cheese as well as a plastic container of "strata stuff" (lonely buns, bits of cheese,bread ends, leftovers that get made into strata every week or two), bottom left is frozen homemade tv dinners (aka "planned overs").

Makes life soooooo much easier. :)

Susanne

I have an upright freezer in my garage, as well as a side-by-side freezer/refrigerator in the kitchen.

For my upright freezer, I put desserts & seafood on the 2nd shelf, beef & freezer meals on the top, chicken on the bottom shelf, and pizza & bread in the drawer. I also do a freezer inventory to keep up with what is in my freezer and what date I froze it.

For my kitchen freezer, I tend to have breakfast,vegetables, and it's where I do the initial flash-frozen for meals & leftovers.

Carol Gehringer

We buy and butcher whole animals, rather than buying individual cuts of meat at the store... like a whole pig, 1/4 cow, 25ish chickens. My chest freezer is slightly smaller than yours so milk crates won’t work, even for just one type of meat. Right now everything is just dumped in, and is pure chaos, so I’m not really sure how to best do this. Obviously we don’t have all that meat in there at the same time, but idk how to make it flexible so it’ll work even if I have something else?

I think I would greatly benefit from a larger freezer too lmao.

Nonarae

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I find reading this article a joy. This is so wonderful post for me. I was thinking to buy a deep freezer and suddenly I reach your article which is become great and helpful for me to buy a new deep freezer. Thanks. It works really well for me. It is extremely helpful and interesting and very much looking forward to reading more of your work.

Neel Ahuja