Where do you store your food?

[jansman]

I ask the above question,as I am refurbishing our kitchen. Without boring details,modern units have replaced the pine ones we used to have. Our daughters have similar kitchen storage, as do many others. Fortunately we have a walk- in pantry ( original) still with stone floors and stone thrall. It never exceeds 8 C. Apart from our fridge/ freezer ,no food is stored in the actual kitchen. I/ we never thought about it in the past,but small and modern houses have differing ways.

Our daughters are both in houses where storage cannot be really expanded upon,because of only having the kitchen. What about yourselves?

[Vitamin c]

My home has a larder but it's just not big enough so I also use kitchen cupboards woodchip crap but do the job .
Keeping kitchen cool in recent summers is hard as south facing by boarding up the windows this helps.

Larder is great always cool

[diamond lil]

Microscopic kitchen here. I use the bottom cupboards for tins & packets and put plates up in the top ones, just think it's cooler down near the floor. Also sorted out what used to be the big airing cupboard in the hall and use that for bulk stuff like big tins of dried milk, coffeemate, 5L laundry gunk and big boxes of soap powder.

[Arzosah]

For dried goods, and tins and bottles too, I use plastic crates under the bed in the spare room. Now I've decided to move, I have to eat down the reserves a little bit. Not too much but some.

[jennyjj01]

Kitchen is useless for cupboard space. Just a shelf of tins and what's in this weeks diet plan. Floored and shelved Loft for cans and jars, but that has to be moved out in summer, when it gets too hot.
Void under the stairs over summer, but that stymies rotation. The void is used for bottled water the rest of the time.
Garage shelves for my pulses and dehydrated stuff in jars and for fresh veg. Also cleaning products.
Box bedroom as a staging point and for cereals, currently about 4 cases of assorted 'larder essentials'

[Frnc]

My kitchen is about 4.5 x 2m at a rough guess. All the units are on one wall, except the sink at the end, which creates an L shape. On the wall opposite the main one is a free standing fridge freezer, a trolly with two shelves containing all the sauce pans and frying pans, broom and pan, and kitchen bin.
The main wall has 3 base units, cooker and washing machine. Lodgers have one each. I have the corner one which is twice as wide inside, extending past the door to the back of the sink. The bit behind the sink holds loads of stuff. It's hard to reach, so the obvious place for most of my food prep. Also I have shelving units in my bedroom and my spare room ('prep room'). And space under my bed. But, like others, I've scaled it down a bit to avoid chucking stuff away. I'm about to chuck a bag of pasta as it's been left open and is past it's date, and I have loads (maybe 6 bags or more).
There are also some wall units that hold glasses and some of my food (lighter stuff).
Under the sink is 2 cupboards. One has cleaning stuff. The other has all the plates, mugs, bowls and baking dishes.
On the worktop is microwave, kettle, toaster and mini oven/air fryer. I sold my blender, partly to make room for the air fryer.

[grenfell]

We have a walk in pantry off the kitchen than is formed by the space under the stairs. The kitchen itself is not huge but we manage to store a bit of stuff. Firstly space under the units is used . I made small truckels , wheeled trays if you like , that utalise the space. There's also a brick nib sticking out into the kitchen which stops a little behind the line of the kitchen units. I've put a matching door on it with shelves just big enough to store tins and called it the "bean cupboard" . Then there is the utility which is or was the old coalhouse , converted before we got here , that's used mainly for bottles and through a door is the garage . Cool and quite wide so fitted out with cupboards for more storage.

[jansman]

My kitchen is about 4.5 x 2m at a rough guess. All the units are on one wall, except the sink at the end, which creates an L shape. On the wall opposite the main one is a free standing fridge freezer, a trolly with two shelves containing all the sauce pans and frying pans, broom and pan, and kitchen bin.
The main wall has 3 base units, cooker and washing machine. Lodgers have one each. I have the corner one which is twice as wide inside, extending past the door to the back of the sink. The bit behind the sink holds loads of stuff. It's hard to reach, so the obvious place for most of my food prep. Also I have shelving units in my bedroom and my spare room ('prep room'). And space under my bed. But, like others, I've scaled it down a bit to avoid chucking stuff away. I'm about to chuck a bag of pasta as it's been left open and is past it's date, and I have loads (maybe 6 bags or more).
There are also some wall units that hold glasses and some of my food (lighter stuff).
Under the sink is 2 cupboards. One has cleaning stuff. The other has all the plates, mugs, bowls and baking dishes.
On the worktop is microwave, kettle, toaster and mini oven/air fryer. I sold my blender, partly to make room for the air fryer.

Your kitchen is remarkably similar to ours,so I understand. We have reduced our food storage too. Only two of us now. We used to store a lot of tinned/ dried as well as 3 freezers in one of the outhouses- as well as the pantry, but now the girls are not here we cannot turn it over quickly enough. Mind you,when I took ill our income crashed massively,and that storage has lasted for 5 months! A good few buckets of pasta and rice ended up with daughters and food bank as the chance of using it has slowed right down.

It is interesting that food storage beyond a week or two is not part of the design of most houses isn’t it?

[Ara]

We moved here about 6 months ago and, joy of joys, the house has a pantry. All the non-fridge/freezer food is stored in there. I had to put a small step in too so I can reach the top shelf. It is not very full yet as we are still waiting for an electrician (we're on to number 4 now as none of the others have turned up when they said they would) to come and re-wire the house. I don't want to make it obvious that we (I?) are preppers. Once the electrician has finished I can get myself organised and put the marble shelf I've been moving from house to house in there as well. The pantry has 2 vents and stays cool in winter despite having a wall between it and the cupboard with the boiler. I suspect once the sun gets round to that side as summer approaches, it will not remain as cool so I need to put a thermometer in there to take some measurements. We have 3 freezers at the moment but as we don't produce our own meat any more, they are due to be sorted out, reducing the number to 2.
Our sons only seem to keep a week's worth of food in the house so have very few cupboards full.

[izzy_mack]

All over the place. I have a tiny kitchenette off a bigger dining room. Keep all using food plus some stores in kitchenette. A cupboard under the stairs has a mountain of toilet rolls at the back and plastic boxes with food at the front. The bathroom has a full height cupboard which has towels, using t.rolls and supplies of shampoo toothpaste etc. etc. The freezer is in the shed and an outdoor pantry stores overflow food and supplies, it's an old stone shed with thick walls and doesn't change in temp. much. The bedrooms have sloping ceilings which means the chest of drawers stands out from the wall a fair bit so store mostly tinned food in boxes behind them. I mark stuff with the bb date in felt pen so it's quicker to see which to use next and sometimes put a note on the outside of contents and bb dates. For a small cottage I manage pretty well, it is old and I think it helps as thick walls mean it keeps cooler in summer despite facing south.