Freezer Organizers

I have two solutions:

Old school - we stacked our meat onto soda boxes (those half boxes that fit 24 sodas). We organized by date, but each soda box had pork steaks, pork chops, steaks, roasts, hotdogs, chicken and sausage - a menagerie of meat.

We stacked the soda boxes up, so we had two stacks. Theory being that as we eat through a variety, we will also eat down to the next level to get the next steak, or then next chicken.

This worked ok - until we bought another 1/4 pig (the ILs live in farm country). Then that pig got dumped, and the stacking was out the window because the new pork needed to go on bottom.

New School: Just bought a new freezer and it came with seperators! So far so good - all the pork in one bin, beef in the other, seafood in another.

I would recommend some soda boxes for some of your common foods - fruit could be one (or a larger box), lunches, etc. Then get some scrap hard plastic to make seperators (stand the plastic up on end in the freezer). Grandpa did this and his freezer is still organized using his homemade system.

How about those wire racks they sell for dishes? You know so that you
can use some of the heighth & stack mugs on top w/dishes underneath
etc? Use that to use a "shelves".

or

Those mini crates they sell around back to school time.

Edit: Also, we write on the freezer bags w/permanent markers what's
inside so there's no mystery meat. ;)

These will give you compartments & heighth.

Hi J.,
I've used small plastic drawers to keep things separate. also dish pans could work. think outside and inside the box :-) Good luck! It's difficult to keep the freezer organized. for me it works for a couple of days.... well, maybe a little longer :-) ~C.~

I finally did this earlier this year and it's great. Walmart has these plastic bins with handles in their kitchen area with all the other racks for like $2-3 and I also had found wire ones (about the same size) at Target in that $1 section a long time ago. I divided up meat, nuts, veggie/fruit and cheese and stuck them in. It has been wonderful pulling out just what we need.

We also have a large chest freezer as we buy organic meat in bulk once a year and my husband made 1/2 height wooden dividers for the whole thing that works wonderfully!

The baskets really helped in knowing what the "pile of stuff" was in our freezer and I kept an area for the misc stuff so we can take it out and eat it.