Like most homeowners, you have a garage full of boxes and bins filled with old clothes, holiday decorations, sporting equipment and more.
But what about all of that extra space in your garage? You can use it to organise your food storage! Here are a few tips to help you get started.
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Keeping Your Food Storage Containers Neat and Orderly
These clever food storage container ideas can help you make the most of your available cabinet space and reach your goods quickly and easily whenever you need them.
In addition, you will discover a simple and low-cost method for arranging your kitchen cabinetry.
We can't live without our kitchen's lidded food storage containers, but sometimes they just get in the way.
The contents of your cabinets may spill out of their drawers and cabinets if you don't have a system in place to keep everything in its appropriate place.
To help you out with your food storage problems, we have compiled some of our favourite kitchen storage ideas.
Here are several simple and low-cost options to consider.
Preserve a Cabinet Shelving Unit for a Corner
Bowls and food storage containers that have lids present a unique storage challenge.
This can cause the lids in your drawer to become completely disorganised.
To make things easier, use a three-tiered shelf to neatly organise the lids by size and container type. GarageSmart® offers the perfect garage storage cabinet to fit your needs!
Make sure no one in the family mixes them up by printing labels. Label things in your home according to whichever system works best for you and your family, whether it be size, type, or colour.
Controlling Water Containers
Find a magazine rack's natural resting spot in the cupboard and turn it onto its side.
From that point on, water bottles can be stacked neatly and efficiently without fear of their falling over or taking up too much room.
Have fun customising the magazine holder or buying one in a pattern you enjoy to keep your bottles of water close at hand and easily visible.
Food storage containers should be stacked wherever possible to maximise storage capacity.
Put in a Space-Saving Under-Shelf
Sliding an under-shelf basket into a cabinet can help make room for bulky food storage containers without lids.
Put the lids of various food storage containers in it, then stack them on top of the lids that match. It's a cheap, quick, and simple solution to maximise a little area.
Insert Flexible Shelving
Tired of digging around at the back of the cupboard without any light to find the right container or lid for your food?
You can improvise your pull-out storage by stacking thin acrylic trays on top of your cabinet shelves.
Put an adhesive liner on the bottom of the cabinet shelf so that the trays can slide more easily.
Prepare your own food storage system by stacking and labelling your plastic containers.
You no longer have to rummage around in the cupboards to find the lost container.
Toss-and-Turn Storage for Books
This simple trick for organising kitchen drawers will help you maintain order in your cabinets and prevent mismatched cookware.
You can divide up a single drawer or pull-out shelf into multiple compartments by placing book bins at their sides. Next, stack containers with matching lids and store them in designated spaces.
Attach a Mounted Lid Collectors
You can take advantage of the portability of a wall-mounted file holder beyond the office by employing it as a small-scale kitchen organiser.
One can be mounted on the inside of a cabinet and used to store various food container tops that are difficult to locate.
That way, you can be assured that you'll never be without a lid again, no matter how deep your cabinets go or how often you reorganise them.
Creating an Ideal Food Storage Facility in Your Garage
How about turning your garage into a long-term food store room? If you know what you're doing, your garage can be converted into a fantastic food storage area.
The food you buy won't go bad while it's being stored in your garage. Food stuff can be safely stored in your garage, including canned foods, soybeans, wheat, and other dry goods.
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Ensure that your garage can keep food at the proper temperature and has the appropriate equipment for keeping it.
The following tips can help you transform your garage into a secure, long-term food storage facility.
Your Garage Is the Perfect Place to Store Dry Food.
It's crucial to always keep the garage dry to preserve food for long periods.
- In order to accomplish this, you must eliminate all sources of humidity in the garage at all times.
- Garage cabinets designed for storing food are an option worth considering. Keep your food safe from dust and other contaminants by storing it in cabinets in the garage.
Please Keep the Animals Out!
Because rodents and other pests can always find food if they try, it's your responsibility to keep any edibles out of their reach.
- If you have to store food in the garage, instal cabinets or use overhead racks to keep it off the floor.
- An overhead rack is an effective technique to keep insects and other pests away from your food supplies. Put them up high where curious hands and paws won't reach them. Plus, the garage's ceiling racks can support as much as a thousand pounds of food if that's where you keep it.
Maintain a Temperature in the Garage That's Suitable for Storing Food.
The optimal temperature for long-term food storage is roughly 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius).
- Most canned goods, for instance, will be fine in the cold storage of a garage. Frozen seals can still be eaten as long as the seals have not been broken.
- If the temperature in the garage rises too high, the food inside will spoil. The food's texture, flavour, and nutritional value could deteriorate if the temperature inside the garage rises.
- To help maintain a comfortable temperature in your garage, increasing the ventilation might be helpful. Adding new roll-up doors, better insulation, a ceiling fan, or an air conditioner can make a noticeable difference in the comfort level of your garage.
Solutions for Storing Canned Goods
All right, so you know what and how to put into your food storage, but how are you going to keep it there?
You would want to avoid stumbling to work daily over mounds of refried beans or tomato stew.
Since garage space is valuable real estate, it makes sense to make the most of it. Some effective and efficient methods for storing canned products are outlined below.
- Metal can rack organisers are space-saving devices that allow you to store almost three times as many cans as you could if you stacked them on top of one another. They are also easy to instal and cost only a few dollars. Furthermore, you can always find the type of canned food you need.
- A plastic food organiser for a shelf: The plastic food organiser works the same way as the metal rack, replacing an empty can as soon as you remove one so that your canned foods never grow stale.
- An upright can scavenger: You can buy quite so many or as few of the free-standing dispensers as you need to keep your canned goods organised, and the result will be a pleasing sight.
- Stairs to the can shelves: Weary of toppling a stack of cans every time you reach the end of the shelf? Step up your storage game with shelf risers and create an effective "stadium seating" configuration for your canned goods. There will be no more "too late" moments of realisation while opening a 10-year-old can of tuna.
- Need more storage space but have a narrow garage door? Another convenient location is the passageway leading from the driveway into the house. Put up a rack to hold the canned foods, so they are always within easy reach.
Conclusion
Lidded food storage containers are an absolute necessity in our kitchen, although they may be a pain at times.
We've put together a list of our favourite kitchen storage ideas to help you with your food storage needs.
Make the most of your storage space in the kitchen with these ingenious container ideas for storing food.
An alternative to investigate is the use of garage cupboards specifically made for food storage.
Canned goods, soybeans, wheat, and other dry commodities can all be stored in a garage without spoiling.
Maintaining a dry environment in the garage is essential for storing food for extended periods of time.
By implementing the following recommendations, your garage can be converted into a safe and reliable long-term food storage facility. Roughly 70 degrees Fahrenheit is the sweet spot for long-term food preservation (21 degrees Celsius).
For instance, canned products can be safely stored in a cool garage.
If you're having trouble keeping the garage at a suitable temperature, you might want to look into increasing the ventilation.
You may greatly improve your garage's comfort by installing new roll-up doors, improved insulation, a ceiling fan, or an air conditioner.
It is prudent to maximise the use of garage space since it is prime real estate. What follows is a rundown of several tried-and-true strategies for preserving canned goods for as long as possible.
With a metal can rack organiser, you can store nearly three times as many cans as you could if you stacked them vertically. Your canned goods will be neatly stored in an upright can scavenger, which will also improve the aesthetics of your kitchen.
Content Summary
- Your garage, like the garages of most homeowners, is stuffed to the gills with boxes and bins of unused clothing, seasonal decorations, sports gear, and other assorted knickknacks.
- If you want to make the most of your kitchen cabinet space while still having easy access to your food, consider using some of these ingenious food storage container ideas.
- Plus, you'll learn a quick and cheap strategy for rearranging your kitchen's cabinetry.
- Lidded food storage containers are an absolute necessity in our kitchen, although they may be a pain at times.
- If you don't have a system in place to keep things in their proper places, the contents of your cabinets and drawers may overflow.
- We've put together a list of our favourite kitchen storage ideas to help you with your food storage needs.
- The storage problem of bowls and food containers with lids is special.
- As a result, the drawer's lids may become jumbled.
- Use a three-tiered shelf to arrange the lids in order of size and container type for convenience.
- Printing labels can help ensure that no one in the family confuses them.
- Label your belongings according to whichever scheme—size, kind, or colour—serves you and your family best.
- To make better use of vertical space in a cabinet, place a magazine rack on its side in its usual storage area.
- As of that point forwards, bottles of water can be stacked neatly and efficiently without worrying about them toppling over or taking up too much area.
- To keep your water bottles handy and plainly visible, have fun designing your own magazine holder or selecting one with a colourful design.
- The storage capacity of food containers can be increased by stacking them.
- Large, lid-less food storage containers can be stored more easily by sliding an under-shelf basket into a cupboard.
- Thin acrylic trays stacked atop cabinet shelves can serve as makeshift pull-out storage.
- You may make it easier for the trays to glide in and out of the cabinet by applying an adhesive liner to the bottom of the shelf.
- To save money, make your own food storage system by stacking and labelling plastic containers.
- You can stop searching for the missing container in vain.
- Keeping your kitchen neat and tidy is a breeze with the assistance of this one easy hack for organising drawers.
- Inserting book bins along the sides of a drawer or pull-out shelf creates several storage spaces.
- The next step is to stack and label containers with identical tops.
- You may put a wall-mounted file holder's versatility to good use outside of the office by using it as a makeshift pantry.
- One can be installed within a cabinet and used to keep the lids of various food containers in one convenient place.
- That way, regardless of how many times you rearrange your cabinets or how far back they go, you'll always have a lid handy.
- Your garage can make a great food storage location if you know what you're doing.
- Your grocery shop purchases won't spoil if you keep them in the garage for a while.
- Canned goods, soybeans, wheat, and other dry commodities can all be stored in a garage without spoiling.
- Make sure your garage has the capacity to store food at the appropriate temperature and the necessary equipment to do so.
- By implementing the following recommendations, your garage can be converted into a safe and reliable long-term food storage facility.
- Dry goods are best kept in a cool, dry place, like your garage.
- Maintaining a dry environment in the garage is essential for storing food for extended periods of time.
- That can only be done by keeping the garage completely dry at all times, which means no moisture-generating appliances or activities should ever be allowed in there.
- It is your obligation to store food where rodents and other pests cannot get to it.
- Install cabinets or utilise overhead racks to keep food off the floor if you have to store it in the garage.
- Putting your food supplies in a rack high above the ground is a great way to prevent insects and other pests from getting to them.
- Keep them up high, out of the reach of inquisitive paws and fingers.
- In addition, if you store food in the garage, the ceiling racks there can hold as much as a thousand pounds.
- You should keep the garage at a temperature that is safe for storing food.
- Roughly 70 degrees Fahrenheit is the sweet spot for long-term food preservation (21 degrees Celsius).
- Many perishables, such as canned products and frozen seafood with intact seals, can be safely stored in a garage or other cool location indefinitely.
- The food in the garage will go bad if the temperature stays too high.
- If the temperature in the garage rises, the food's texture, flavour, and nutritional content could all suffer.
- Increasing the airflow in your garage may help keep it at a tolerable temperature.
- You may greatly improve your garage's comfort by installing new roll-up doors, improved insulation, a ceiling fan, or an air conditioner.
- You now know what and how to store food, but how are you going to keep it there?
- Bringing a pot of tomato stew or refried beans to work every day could be a hazard you'd like to avoid.
- Since garage space is prime real estate, optimising its use is a no-brainer.
- What follows is a rundown of several tried-and-true strategies for preserving canned goods for as long as possible.
- With a metal can rack organiser, you can store nearly three times as many cans as you could if you stacked them vertically.
- They may be set up in little time and for a low price.
- Even better, canned goods of every variety are widely available.
- An adjustable plastic shelf divider: Similar to the metal rack, the plastic organiser prevents canned goods from going bad by automatically replacing an empty can whenever you remove one.
- Your canned goods will look neat and tidy no matter how many or how few free-standing dispensers you purchase.
- By using shelf risers, you may arrange your canned products in a space-saving "stadium seating" fashion.
- This means no more "too late" moments of self-realisation while opening that 10-year-old can of tuna.
- The entrance from the garage is yet another handy spot.
- Mount a rack for the canned goods, making them readily available at all times
FAQs About Garage Storage
How Do I Store Food in My Garage?
Foods stored in a garage should be kept in garage cabinets or overhead racks to avoid spoilage. Pests can only get to your food when stored on an overhead rack. You can put them up high if you want to ensure no one can get to them.
Can I Use the Garage as a Pantry?
While the kitchen is the centre for food preparation, the garage is becoming a popular spot for setting up food pantries.
Can You Store Clothes in a Garage?
Fluctuating temperatures and humidity are not ideal conditions for storing fabric. It can get mouldy, and rodents love to chew it. It's tempting to stash sleeping bags with other non-fabric camping supplies in the garage, but don't do it! Store sleeping bags, clothes and other fabric items inside your house.
What Is Safe to Store in a Garage?
The garage is the ideal home for tools and appliances you only use outdoors. Think of shovels, hoses, outdoor extension cords, lawnmowers, gardening tools, flower pots, and more. Bags of potting soil, buckets of ice melt, and other outdoor supplies in bulky packaging are also good candidates for garage storage.
Where Should Home Canned Food Be Stored?
Store them in a clean, cool, dark, dry place. Don't store jars above 95 F. Don't store near hot pipes, a range, a furnace, an uninsulated attic, or direct sunlight. Under these conditions, food will lose quality in a few weeks or months and may spoil.