Do you have a fridge organizing hack? Asking for a friend.
Short things in the short sections. If anything is obscured, make sure it’s something that won’t go bad quickly.
Vegetables to the top, meat to the bottom; anything that can drip anything (liquid, blood, juice, etc…) should be placed at the bottom so to drip on the least amount of items.
Will depend on what kind of fridge you have. The bottom drawer on mine is the vegetable box. It has humidity adjustments. Next is the “fresh” box, it has a temperature adjustment for keeping meats or vegetables. Then shelves, for the rest. The higher, the more preserved is the food. The lower, the fresher.
But this is a combo fridge/freezer. The fridge on top, freezer on bottom. Freezer is much the same. There’s a meat-drawer in the middle, and two everything-else-drawers.
Buy some shallow but largeish Tupperware and put anything that might leak in it. Doesn’t have to be sealed, it’s just to catch leaks. This has saved me from having to clean raw chicken juice off the fridge’s shelves many times when the butcher didn’t wrap it too well.
Keep veggies in a crisper drawer or near the top shelves, especially if you keep your fridge real cold. Less risk of freezing them that way.
Try not to cram stuff right up against the walls. This hurts your fridge’s ability to circulate cold air and can lead to freezing of some items or at least higher energy bills.
Get a black sharpie and write the date you open something on its lid. I do this mostly with dairy stuff and oat milk boxes. No more guessing how long that cream cheese, yogurt, or butter has been sitting in there.
Top to bottom.
Beers
Dairy
Meat
Veg in the drawers at the bottom