How to Organize Your Freezer

Learn How to Organize Your Freezer with these 10 creative tips and tricks. Give these easy and frugal freezer organizer ideas a try.

Do you ever open your freezer door and just cringe? You know there are chicken nuggets somewhere, but where are they?

Or maybe you go to clean out your fridge and you find 3 opened bags of frozen vegetables. Believe me, I have been there.

I already showed you these 17 Life Changing Food Pantry Organization Ideas. Today, I have some creative freezer storage tips you will love.

Why We Love These
1. Ditch the Boxes
2. Magazine Holders
3. Use a White Board
4. Plastic Storage Bins
5. Use Binder Clips
6. Label Everything
7. Add Shelving
8. Freeze Flat
9. Reusable Shopping Bags
10. Use a FoodSaver

Why We Love These

It doesn’t have to cost a lot of money to organize your freezer, but by staying organized you can really save your family money.

Once you see how to organize your freezer, it is very simple to do. These ideas are easy and do not cost a ton. You will love these frugal ideas.

Whatever type of freezer you have, these tips will have your freezer food in order. From a side-by-side freezer to an upright freezer and bottom-drawer freezer to top freezer, your space will have the freezer inventory totally organized. These tips will even get your garage freezer in order!

1. Ditch the Boxes

This may seem like a no brainer, but boxes take up a lot of space in the freezer. Do yourself a favor and toss the boxes and organize the items into smaller bins. This will add so much space to your freezer.

2. Magazine Holders

Did you know you can use magazine racks as shelving in your freezer? Just turn the racks on their sides and you can store smaller objects like baking chips and frozen vegetables.

3. Use a White Board

Use a small magnetic white board on the outside of your freezer to keep track of what you have. It is very easy to lose count of how many bags of chicken nuggets, leftovers or frozen corn you have. Use a white board to make note of categories.

4. Plastic Storage Bins

Have you ever seen the small plastic bins at Dollar Tree? These freezer baskets are great for keeping similar items in. Easily find packages of ground beef or frozen chicken when they are placed in their own bin in the freezer.

5. Use Binder Clips

I haven’t tried this yet, but I have heard of people using binder clips to hold partially full bags of frozen fruit and vegetables to the bottom of a wire rack in the freezer. I imagine this makes the bags much easier to see.

6. Label Everything

I love my label maker! Not only does it help me see what I have in the freezer if everything is labeled, but it also helps the kids know where to put things away. If you want to use bigger labels, I love these chalkboard labels!

7. Add Shelving

If you are not happy with the shelving in your freezer, why not take out the factory shelves and add your own helper shelves. This will give you the opportunity to place the shelving only where you need it.

This works great if you are trying to organize the upper portion of a fridge freezer. If you don’t like the idea of taking out the existing shelving, you can always add an under the shelf basket.

8. Freeze Flat

I love putting together freezer meals for my meal plan, but they used to take up a lot of freezer space. Then I discovered these hands-free baggie holders!

I fill these up with my crockpot meals, zip them up and freeze things flat in plastic bags. Once they are frozen, I like to stand them upright in my clear freezer bins so I can quickly and easily see what meals I have on hand.

9. Reusable Shopping Bags

If you are trying to think of creative ways to organize your freezer and you have a deep chest freezer, you may want to try reusable shopping bags. It can be difficult to find everything in your deep freezer. I like to put items in zones.

However, if you have all of your beef in one bag and all of your poultry and veggies in another, it will make it easier for you to grab what you need.

10. Use a FoodSaver

This might not seem like an organizational tip to you but hear me out. I love my FoodSaver. It saves me a lot of money because it keeps our food fresh as the day I bought it.

When you use a FoodSaver, all of your items will be vacuum sealed. With less air in your packages, you will be able to store more items in a fraction of the space.

I have never had to throw out food that was stored in a FoodSaver. No more food waste or food with freezer burn from freezer bag seal.