How do you store your open bread/snacks?

13 years ago

I can never keep my counters clear of partially-cut loaves of bread and open snack packages....and I've got no cabinet/pantry space, nor room above the fridge.

Any ideas?

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13 years ago

I bought three bread storage boxes from Tupperware (decades ago). I make my own bread and my standard loaf fits perfectly into one of these boxes. They are air tight and roomy enough to hold rolls (or short bread sticks). I suppose things like chips or other snacks would also fit, although I keep things like that in their original bags with clips. I don't have much storage in my kitchen either, so I use racks to double the space in my cabinets. This bread box lives atop one of these racks, inside my cabinet. The link below is similar to my dish rack -- you can get the idea. I think I like mine better because it's coated like a dishwasher rack... quiet.

Here is a link that might be useful: space-making shelf

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jannie
13 years ago
I have a plastic drawer that pulls open. It sits on the counter in my kitchem. I consider it my "bread box." I got it at Bed Bath and Beyond. They sell single drawers that stack. I bought just one.
trancegemini_wa
13 years ago
I either use pegs to close the bags or use plastic containers or zip lock bags to store food and put it back in a cupboard
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Plllog, It could entirely be related to location. I've lived in the sierra mountains but I was too young to be making butter decisions at that point, Phoenix where the indoor temperature has always been a cool 68 via the miracle of AC, and my current location Portland where even at it's warmest it just aint that warm. When I was 15? or 16? one of the first jobs I ever had was at a sewing/fabric store here in town. And I had the great pleasure of working closely with a newly arrived young french woman newly in the states. An avid seamstress we were talking about her newly made wool suit and I mentioned that I prefered not to own much that was complicated to launder. She surprised me by going on a mild rant about how weird "the states" were. All of us, she noted, with our prewashing of dishes so that we could not wash the dishes, cleaning laundry without water so that we didn't have to clean ourselves, First buying too much food in advance that that it was less valuable in the forms of minerals, then paying to store that food as it gradually becomes worth less, then eating only a portion of that food and throwing away the rest. She pointed to me and said "If you buy an extra yard and prewash the wool then you can wash your clothing in water YOURSELF. No chemicals, no dropping off and picking up, no nothing." I have never, ever, forgotten that conversation. And over the years I've come to agree with her. We are, in many ways, a country that simply doesn't have 800 years of yogurt making history... so when someone puts milk in a pottery jar on the counter wrapped in a sweater it's "disgusting" but we buy it by the ton if it says yoplait on the side. Myself, I really don't have left over bread. If we are going to eat a half a loaf of bread I make one and share with a neighbor. If I need to make two, then theres a half for us, the two neighbors and the people I work with. But since I stock no food and keep no left overs it means that out of that 24" fridge (which takes roughly 16 bucks a year to run, near as I can figure out) with two drawers, the bottom one is almost always empty. It works for us! I don't have kids or even pets though. A cat might keep me from leaving the butter out or giving away all the bread.
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pammyfay
13 years ago
I have a metal breadbox.

I have also seen a cabinet drawer that's actually a breadbox, but if you're tight on space you prob don't want to give that current cabinet space up.

Do you have any floor space? For something like this?

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lynxe
13 years ago
We have the type of cabinet that pammyfay mentions. Ironically, I eat very little bread and no snacks that come in packages. (I assume you mean things like potato chips or pretzels?) But that drawer is a good place to store chocolate bars. heh heh heh. At any rate, for what it's worth, since you apparently don't have such a drawer, I'd stock up on glass storage containers and/or metal cannisters for the snacks, and on a metal breadbox for your bread.
lynxe
13 years ago
Sorry, veni, but I didn't read all of your post carefully. Had not realized you're lacking in space. Assume my suggestion is that you can arrange the storage containers along the counter top instead. It still might be somewhat cluttery looking, but at least an array of containers with a similar look might look a bit neater.
justgotabme
13 years ago
I'm an obsessive space organizer so my guess is you may very well have storage space available that you don't realize. Any space in a cabinet where there's air space is potentially storage space unnoticed. All you need is a way to add extra flat space to that cabinet such as using the type of organizer linked below.

Here is a link that might be useful:
mustangs81
13 years ago
Like justgotabme and thanks to Talley_Sue, I searched my whole house for unused head space and added an extra shelf to almost every existing shelf in my pantry, cabinets, closets. In the pantry for example, where I started with 4 shelves, I now have 8. It isn't pretty, but you can see three of the extra shelves in this picture.

The real find--I came across a refrigerator shelf at a thrift store; it was a couple of $$s so I thought I would chance it. Turned out that it was the same as my laundry room refrigerator. It's so great for party platters when I am entertaining and for bottled drinks on a regular bases.
lazy_gardens
13 years ago
What do you mean "it ain't pretty"!

That's BEAUTIMOUS! It's all organized and tidy and labeled.
justgotabme
13 years ago
I agree with LazyGardens your pantry is beauimous!
mommabird
13 years ago
I save the clear plastic containers salad comes in at Kroger, and re-use them for open bags of chips, noodles, popcorn, etc. That way I can stack them 3 or 4 high in the cabinent, I can see what's in them, and they're FREE with the salad I'd be buying anyway!

Here's a picture - the top item on this page is what I'm talking about.

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mustangs81
13 years ago
Hey-thanks for the compliment! When I see some of the stunning pantries and contents on the Kitchen Forum, I feel inadequate!

I purposely didn't respond directly to the OP's question because he/she mentioned not having space. But I will share that I store all chips, bread, cookies, etc. in my warming drawer. I found a Rubbermaid bin that fits my WD perfectly. I threw away the lid (actually, I left it at the store) and it acts as a liner. When I need to use the WD, I lift out the bin with all the contents and store it in the laundry room.

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