How to Keep Fresh Garden Vegetables Separate & Accessible in a Refrigerator Drawer

Refrigerator drawer full of fresh garden vegetables

We love it when our vegetable drawer is crammed full of fresh garden vegetables!  The problem is at times it can be difficult finding the vegetable you want in the middle of all the other goodies in the drawer.  Now that Spring is here and people are planting gardens, going to farmers markets, and stocking up on some of the great fresh produce in the stores I thought it would be a good time to share how I have found an easy and inexpensive way to keep the garden vegetables separate yet accessible while in the refrigerator drawer.

Solution – recycled bread bags!  It seems silly but it really works well!  You probably already have them around plus you can usually fit more bags into the drawer.  We tried doing containers but every week we had a different amount of vegetables or they were overflowing among other things that just didn’t make them work well.  As I was throwing out a bread bag the thought came across my mind that it would make a good “holder” for the garden vegetables.

The bags can be packed as little or as much as needed (and can be adjusted accordingly) plus they keep the vegetables separate so I can easily reach in and grab whatever veggies I needed at the time.  It also made it super easy for the kids to pack their own lunches or to grab a quick snack from the vegetable drawer.

Here’s how we did it:

French bread loaf bag, washed & dried so it can be filled with cherry tomatoes from the garden

Once the tomatoes are all in the bag roll the remaining bag down until it is even with the stack of tomatoes

Bag of tomatoes ready to be put into the fridge drawer

Fresh veggies organized and accessible for the next meal