Packing Food Tins Away!

[toffee]

when we get home from a shop - we have quite a few tins of something to put away in the cupboards,
so here is my point -- do you line them all up with labels facing front ' or do you just mingle them in
where there is a space ' do you stack them one on top of each other 'or lay them down ' myself i dont care

my friend has ocd' everything is in order in her tins...

 

[hollydolly]

I have 2 baskets in one cupboard where I put any cans of food , that I can easily pull out .
I keep them standing upright, but I really don't buy too much in cans.. Chickpeas, Baked beans, Hearts of Palm, white crab & tuna, peas & carrots , and that's about it , so I know the cans by their colours anyway

 

[Ruthanne]

I stack my cans of the same items on top on each other or next to each other. Easier to find that way.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I try to keep similar products grouped together and set them up so I can see the labels facing front.

After a few weeks of me pawing around in the cupboard, things tend to arrange themselves so I have to take inventory and rearrange the shelves.

The last time I rearranged the cupboard I realized that I'm becoming my mother, I started finding canned goods that had gone beyond the expiration date.

I need to make more of an effort to buy only what I need when I need it and actually use it before I buy more!

 

[Capt Lightning]

My tins go in a "pullout" with wire trays. I use an indelible marker to write on the top - "T" for tomatoes, "KB" for Kidney beans etc... When I slide the trays out I can see instantly what's in the tins.

 

[RadishRose]

I don't have many cans, so I stick 'em wherever they fit; tomatoes, beans, tuna, the odd can of salmon. Most veggies are frozen.

 

[Gary O']

my friend has ocd' everything is in order in her tins...

I like yer friend

I dunno how we pack food tins away
I've not been let in the kichin since the compost episode

But, I am a bit neat about things

 

[Catlady]

I buy very few cans. Diced tomatoes, tomato paste, diced chiles, cream of ? ? ? soup for recipes, sliced black olives. That's about it, but I still face the labels to the front and stack them together, easier to manage.

 

[Furryanimal]

I stack them...

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I stack them,labels to the front and always try and put the newer ones in the back.

 

[Pink Biz]

Stack

 

[hollydolly]

I buy very few cans. Diced tomatoes, tomato paste, diced chiles, cream of ? ? ? soup for recipes, sliced black olives. That's about it, but I still face the labels to the front and stack them together, easier to manage.

Oh yes I forogt the canned tomatoes in my list. I think we have more of those than anything...

 

[Mike]

Well Toffee, Hollydolly said it already, she knows the
tins by colour and label, I was going to say:

If you are old enough to be on this site, you should know
all the tins that you buy, no matter which way they are facing,
but they will probably have to be standing upright.

Mike.

 

[TravelinMan]

I try to keep similar products grouped together and set them up so I can see the labels facing front. After a few weeks of me pawing around in the cupboard, things tend to arrange themselves so I have to take inventory and rearrange the shelves.

I try to store them together by contents but my wife tends to just put them anywhere. I have an analytical personality style and she is amiable which may explain the difference of methods. But being together we tend to balance out or relationship which is a really good thing.

 

[Catlady]

I try to store them together by contents but my wife tends to just put them anywhere. I have an analytical personality style and she is amiable which may explain the difference of methods. But being together we tend to balance out or relationship which is a really good thing.

They say the BEST marriages are the ones where each of the couple balances the other.

 

[treeguy64]

I stack them, neatly, on shelves, labels facing out. I rotate the older cans to the front. No biggie.

 

[Pappy]

Having worked in a grocery store, in my younger years, I stack and face everything. My old boss still rings true in my ear...pull everything forward, stack it neatly, labels front...you can’t sell it if they can’t see it.
Thank you Mr. Endries...RIP

 

[StarSong]

My tins go in a "pullout" with wire trays. I use an indelible marker to write on the top - "T" for tomatoes, "KB" for Kidney beans etc... When I slide the trays out I can see instantly what's in the tins.

What a genius idea, Captain! Thanks for the tip!

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Let's see. East of the Atlantic Ocean, I stack my tins; when I'm West of the Atlantic, I stack my cans with the label facing out-how else do you know what they are?

 

[Llynn]

By content. Stacked in a row, label forward. Newest in back.