Tracy's Treasury Ode to Organizing...
Featuring:
Tupperware Fridgesmart!
Have you heard of
Tupperware
Fridgesmart
What is
it?????
FridgeSmart as a smart system of storing produce, based on
how much ventilation it needs. You can open one vent, two
vents, or no vents on the tupperware, according to what
you're storing in it (there's a handy chart printed right on
the side so you always know how to store various foods). And
you can store various fruits & veggies together, as long
as they're in the same ventilation family.
Why Should You Be Amazed?
Reason #1- FridgeSmart keeps your produce
FRESHER... longer! Way longer! Here's the difference between
strawberries stored in and out of FridgeSmarts for three
weeks...
Reason #2- FridgeSmart frees up your
produce drawers. We used to have two shelves full of all
sorts of little containers of all sorts of little things we
don't use all that often, but keep on hand. All that stuff
fit in ONE drawer. I filled the other drawer with "grab &
go" snacks- like yogurts, string cheese, etc. (plus drugs for
our high maintenance doggie)
Reason #3- FridgeSmart stacks all nice and
modular, so it makes organization-lovers like myself quite
happy.
Now, you put those three fabulous features together, and what
do you get?
A total transformation!
Just look at my refrigerator BEFORE and AFTER
Fridgesmart.........
Buh-bye clutter, Hello SPACE! That is the exact same amount
of food! I didn't mess with the bottom-most drawer (which you
can't really see well in my pictures anyway) or the doors at
all. Every bit of food you see in the before picture is in
the after picture. All the stuff we don't use a lot (all
those little containers that took up TWO upper shelves) fit
into ONE vegetable drawer. And the rest fit into the other
drawer. Our produce is now all in the upper portion of the
fridge, in the FridgeSmart containers. A couple are stacked
double deep just to show how consolidated they can be. With
all this newly-found space though, I'd really spread them out
a little.
Something I really like about having the produce "upstairs"
and the jars and containers "downstairs", instead of the
reverse (the normal way- produce in the produce drawers)...
is that the junk we should eat less of as well as the random
things we keep on hand but don't need often are out of the
way, whereas the produce is the first thing you see when you
open the fridge. This is good for me because any food we've
bought that needs to be eaten soon gets the prime space (not
crammed in somewhere and forgotten). And stuff that sits in
the fridge all year is shoved away in a drawer.
As for the disadvantage of the Tupperware FridgeSmart
containers... they're a pain to store in cabinets... the
suggestion from the Tupperware lady is that you COULD just
store your empty pieces right in the fridge, underneath the
ones in use, until you get more produce to fill it back up
again. Here's a comparison of storing just the filled
containers and storing them with the empty ones. It really
doesn't take up all that much extra space........
Now... I hate to break your hearts here,
but FridgeSmarts Tupperware containers aren't cheap. But
neither is wasted food. And FridgeSmarts are worth every
penny for all the space I gained in my fridge by reorganizing
it. (Ok, my Mom bought them for me for Christmas so they were
worth all of HER pennies. But I loved them so much that I
bought some more. So they're worth BOTH our pennies!) (I got
a sweet deal on mine on
Amazon
If you decide to
organize your fridge with
Tupperware
Fridgesmart
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