If your food storage bags are getting jumbled in your kitchen cabinets, drawers, and or pantries, here is how to organize your food storage bags more efficiently whether you use eco-friendly or disposable bags. And, did you know, you can also organize your spaces according to your organizing style? You can find out what your organizing style is here.
Before organizing your food storage bags, you must purge the ones you do not use. Maybe you purchased snack size by accident when you meant to purchase sandwich size. Be ruthless and purge the excess so you can more easily store what you do use.
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In this post, we focus on how to organize all kinds of food storage bags even eco-friendly reusable solutions. Below, I share ideas on how to organize and store your food wrap with different types of organizing solutions that will work for your organizing styles and spaces. (I share how to organize food wraps, like foil and plastic wrap, here.)
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How to Organize Eco-Friendly Reusable Food Storage Bags
Disposable food storage bags can be quite wasteful ecologically and also economically for your own pockets. So, I would like to suggest some eco-friendly, reusable food storage bags. I, myself, store them together in a narrow drawer as I share in my kitchen tour. These are leak-proof and don’t hold onto odor (found here):

Depending on how many of these you need, you can simply store them together in a drawer or bin on a shelf. Or, you can use drawer organizers to store each size individually (found here):

You can also use a file organizer to make each size bag easily accessible from a pantry or cabinet shelf (found here):

How to Organize Food Storage Bag Boxes
There are a plethora of options available to organize your food storage bag boxes which can range from being free of cost to costing a pretty penny for the most aethetically-pleasing organizing solutions. Let’s start with my favorite solutions … which are free, of course!
How to Organize Food Storage Bags for Free
As I shared in the previous post about how to organize food wrap boxes, a shallow kitchen drawer can be the next perfect organizing solution not requiring any organizing products.

If your food storage bag boxes are slightly too tall for your drawer, you can remove the bags from their original packaging and set them in drawer organizers/dividers you already have on hand.
I previously shared a couple different ways to organize food wrap and storage bags using organizing solutions you might already have on hand including magazine files and even a can dispenser rack!
How to Organize Food Wrap in Your Pantry and Kitchen Cabinets
I shared a few different organizing solutions that can work both for your food wrap and food storage bags together in the previous post here. Here are different color options below than the ones shared previously like this one (found here):

And this one (found here):

And this one (found here):

And here is an adjustable version to accomodate the height of different sized boxes (found here):

I hope you found some ideas for how to organize your food storage bags for your organizing style and/or the space that you have! In my next post, I share ideas on how to organize drinks in your pantry. Don’t forget to grab my free resources from my freebie library here. Let’s get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!
Happy Organizing!

Author of “How to Organize Any Space in 7 Simplified Steps“