Kitchen storage advice jayco hake

Tracker022 · Member

Kitchen storage advice jayco hake

Possum3 · Guru

The child-bride has many plastic (lidded and open) containers that fit into cupboards (and other spaces). At the moment she is experimenting with stiff felt/fabric rectangular "baskets" to contain fruit and vegetables (and assorted lolly bags). The square preserved fruit plastic containers (jars) are also widely used to hold dry items in food pantry - a little tip break spaghetti in half to fit into plastic jars.

iana · Guru

Hi Tracker, we had a Jayco Swan. Because there was only two of us, and we had a station wagon tow vehicle. We packed most of our things in the big plastic tubs with lids, about 600 x 400 x 500. These were stacked in the rear of the tow vehicle. On setting up we just grabbed the required bins and sat them on the unused bed. So the bins contained clothing, utensils, and food.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

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Cheers,
Peter

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Somewhere along the line I have missed you arriving here on the forum, you must have sneaked in the back door, so, welcome to the gang Tracker022, enjoy here and out in the playground.

I am solo and have small items in cupboards stored in small plastic boxes and plates etc with non slip matting between. I only buy things in plastic or transfer to plastic where possible. I keep stock to a minimum also where possible. I try and think of things I might need as I move through different areas so I don't run short.

I only cater for myself with plates and cutlery but have a variety of teas and some coffee bags just in case, again, stored in plastic. I don't drink coffee though.

I also use zip lock bags wherever possible too, they save a lot of space and weight.

Keep Safe on the roads and out there.

markf · Senior Member

Hi there,

We use a number of Systema 14 and 27 litre lided plastic boxes for food and bits and pieces including tablets, chargers, various cables, spare batteries, etc. We use the larger, flatter 30 litre boxes for things like cooking stuff, clean bedding, towels, etc.

They're robust, cheap, readily available if we break one, they have good secure lids and they're stackable. The biggest bonus is that they fit perfectly in the slides in the camper cupboards AND they fit perfectly in the back of the car such that six of them lay flat and have no room to slide around uncontrolably.

The bonus of using plastic boxes is when you're packing to go away you can take your time packing the boxes and then packing the car and camper is just an exercise of lugging and stowing boxes. Takes but a few minutes. Of course, unpacking is just the reverse. Just lug the boxes and the fridge/freezer baskets inside and put the contents away at your leisure.

We're both big fans of everything having a place and everything being in its place and the plastic box method makes that dead easy.

Tracker022 · Member

Thanks for the welcome and replies. Great advise, does anyone have pics (Im a visual gal). Its just the 2 of us in the van and I like the idea of throwing things on the spare bed but the tetris in me wants to nail the under bench storage . But maybe I can use that for less used things than food.

iana · Guru

I don't know if there was any really good storage under the bench, if I remember correctly the wheel arch took up a bit of space. Think we kept detergents and cleaners, dish rack etc. Plates etc. in the draws and cupboards, believe me you will easily fill it up.

Yaketty · Veteran Member

Welcome to the forum! Have you looked on Pinterest? If not, check it out with searches like 'popup camper storage ideas' or 'jayco camper storage hacks' If youre a visual gal, Pinterest is for you.

We have a slide-on camper with very limited storage so have become adept at packing & reducing the unnecessary- believe me when you start out you will tend to pack more than you need or will ever use! I used to have plastic containers for nearly every food item but now I tend to use ziplock bags as the Chief recommends above. I can fit 10-12 Ziplock bags in the space that only 4 containers fit, so stuff we use lesser amounts of like cocoa, baking powder, curry powder etc. goes in ziplocks.

My latest favourite items are little foldable containers from Ikea - called Storstabbe, Skubb and Stuk - yes they sound like the cast members of Vikings but are lightweight, cheap and do the job. Kmart is also great for storage items - anything collapsible works well in campers. Try YouTube too using similar search terms as for Pinterest- note that in the US they call them pop up campers rather than pop top - apologies if you knew that already. See youtu.be/YpqqkbklH1A this is a video on Jayco Camper Storage solutions.

Happy camping