I'm not much of a DIY man, so I need so help there ....

I have problems rotating my food stock, mainly the tin canned supplies.
So I'm looking for diagrams, on how to build some kind of shelves where you insert the last bought cans at the top and you take the oldest can from the bottom .. or something along that line...

I have some ideas but before geting wood panels, hammer and nails, I'd like to find out if there are other possibilites which I have not thought of.. (well ... I'm sure there are... )

Tried to search the net for that subject, but did not get many results (maybe not using the correct words).

TIA.

I hope you get some answers, since I am interested in the same thing. Our home (the real one, not the RV we are currently living in) came equipped with a "cold room" for food storage. Lots of shelves. Since we have enough shelving, we just to the "new to the rear, old to the front" thing, but it seems that there should be a better way...

Yes, that's what I try to do, except I haven't got that much space, so cans are more or less mixed + it's difficult to move everything forth, to put new cans in the back ...

http://www.foodstoragerack.com/foodstoragerotationsystems

Hope this link gives you some ideas. I found the Cansolidator at Costco for $24.95.

The front feed flow rack makes stocking and rotation easy.

http://www.canracks.com/

Here is a link to plans to build it yourself.

Pretty neat rack. The only problem I see is that for it to work properly, you've go to have use one row for each flavor of Campbells soup (as one example). So if you want to keep several different flavors on hand, you're going to need the BIG rack. Something to add to my wish list for Christmas...

That's about the only web site I have found.
But I still have to send them an Email to check if "our" cans are of the same size ...

One thing I had not think of, is to build a complete shelf !

I was rather thinking along the Cansolidator design. But doing it myself ...
This Cansolidator is easily configured for different can sizes. But I still have to find out, if US cans and european cans are the same.

Should work for canned food, soups, etc.

If you have a bigger pantry you could divide up the shelves into 3 partitions on 4 shelves or 4 partitions on 3 shelves with cardboard or wood or whatever. The idea is to make 12 spaces, marked for each month, then when you buy canned goods you put them in the partition for that month. To eat up the oldest (1 yr), just grab what's in the previous month's slot. This would keep you from having to physically rotate around the cans, and you can pile them anyway you want in each month's slot.