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Fridge & Freezer Organization

Fridge Zone Planner

Fridge zones follow temperature, not looks: the door is the warmest spot, the lower shelf is coldest, and ready-to-eat food never sits under raw meat. Tell the planner your shelf count and household size and it assigns every shelf a zone, plus the bin size that suits your household and a freezer flat-bag module.

Use the Fridge Zone Planner

Built-in module

Freezer Space & Bin Size Calculator — add the freezer fields and the bag count appears in your result.

How it works

Zones are assigned top-to-bottom using standard food-storage order (ready-to-eat at top, raw meat sealed at the bottom), then scaled: bin size grows with household size, and the freezer module counts flat-frozen bags across your freezer shelf width.

How to use it

  1. Count the shelves in the fridge section (not the door).
  2. Enter household size — it sets the recommended bin size.
  3. If you freeze flat bags, add the freezer shelf width and bag width.
  4. Print the zone map and tape it inside a cupboard door while the system beds in.

Frequently asked questions

Why should raw meat go on the bottom shelf?

Because anything that drips, drips down. Bottom-shelf placement in a sealed tray means raw juices can never land on food that will be eaten as-is. It is the one fridge rule that is about safety, not preference.

What should never go in the door?

Milk and eggs — the door is the warmest, most temperature-variable part of the fridge. Condiments, sauces and juice are fine there; they tolerate the swings.

How do I stop food being forgotten at the back?

One small 'eat this first' bin at eye level, which the plan includes. Food that graduates to that bin gets eaten; food in a back corner becomes a science project.

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