How do you store your canned foods?

[Niddi]

I live in SC and would not put canned goods in the heat. My pantry is a small closet in my kitchen and doesn't hold much. I use my guest room closet as well as a hard to reach shelves in my closet (for boxed items like cereal) as my extra pantry and just stack boxes of canned goods on top of each other as well as sliding them under a couch in my sunroom. The boxes are marked with what's in them and expiration date. Every month I get out what I need to put in my kitchen pantry.

Pain in the rear, but a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do when you stockpile in a small house. My dream house has a heated and cooled garage with shelves all the way around. Never gonna happen so I keep stacking anywhere I can.

[cheap-o]

I have a crap load of these. I figured I better invest in something good if I am going to shop like this for the rest of my life.

Cansolidator Pantry Plus Rotates up to 60 cans

It works like the new progresso soup set ups at the stores :)

[qpnkwn1]

I love the self idea, that is Brilliant!

[mommas2moody]

Need opinions since this question has come up....

First I am in TN where it gets hot.
My kitchen cabinet is starting to overflow with canned goods (home canned and store bought) and am looking to move what I can into my basement.
However, my basement/garage is unfinished and is only partly underground.
In the summer on 90+ degree days it stays about 80ish in the basement. In the winter it gets cold but never cold enough to freeze the dogs water or my laundry stuff.
Would you use this area to store canned goods?

[jenrose]

I think it would be fine M2M. I put canned goods in my laundry room which is downstairs and doesn't get any direct heat since we keep that door shut. We don't have AC so it gets as hot in there as it does outside (given we don't get lots of HOT days).

[coupondink]

I wonder why mfrs stopped making cans that stack easily, kwim? I don't use many canned things either, but the few I do have, it's a pain to try to keep them from falling.

omg I totally agree!!! What a pain!

[aimeebee]

I have a stockpile storage section in my laundry room that is similar to what queen posted but with wire shelves that aren't slanted. I have 5 shelves from the ceiling almost to the floor. Under the bottom shelf, on the floor is where most of my cans are because they are heavy and because that is where they fit and looked the best. I usually buy 12 or more cans of any type of fruit/veggie at a time, enough to fill a box. I keep them in shallow boxes that were from the canned goods at Aldi's. Then we stack up two to three boxes of cans under the shelf. They are separated first by type like fruit, veggie, beans, soup and then by specific item....so pineapples, pumpkins, peaches, pears, etc.

It is my oldest son's job to help me rotate them (16 yo.) If I buy, for example, a box of canned green beans...he pulls a box from the laundry room stockpile and I put them into the kitchen pantry. Then, the new cans go to the laundry/stockpile room. My son hates this job BTW...more than taking out the trash or cleaning his room. He grumbles the whole time about how we didn't need any more of whatever it was I just bought and mumbles, putters and takes way too long, making everything more difficult than it needs to be. Usually this rotation is done every couple of months, unless of course there is a big sale on soup or canned goods.

[KmmCo]

I am lucky in that I have a really nice set of pantry shelves and a lot of cabinets in my basement laundry room, which is huge. I think it is about 18-20 foot long and a good 10 ft wide. (There is a large sink, a microwave that we put down there, and about 5 ft of counter too - great for the teens to make there own snacks without messing up the upstairs kitchen. I think it all was put in from the upstairs kitchen when the last owner remodeled.) That is also where my chest freezer is located. I get the shallow boxes and store the like items together in the cabinets. I just put the newer stuff in the box behind the old stuff. The cabinet under the sink has all my extra liquid laundry soap and bleaches.

[donnagd]

I'm getting ALOT of canned foods. How do you guys store your's and keep them organized?

HI! Did you see the pic's from Heidi's storage? WOW! I want _this_! Description "Using shelf holders designed to hold the shelves at an angle for shoes in a closet and shelves spaced closer together this allows the canned food items to be stored and roll to the front of the shelving unit as they are used. The shelves, shelving brackets and entire system was bought at Home Depot. Here I go to Home Depot to check out what $ to save. And I can't have it in basement. I don't walk. By golly I cn use spare bedroom. And if I were NATE BERKUS (HO HO HO) I'd hang a pretty curtain from the ceiling that I could slide back and forth, to cover it. Cheers, everbuddy, Mrs Bill from Oregon

[ScrappyDoo]

I have shelves from Shelf Reliance. There is a link in my siggy to see all the different choices that they have.