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Freezer food storage chart
Storage times will vary according to the quality of the food, the type of packaging or wrap used (air and moisture proof) and the storage temperature which should be
FOOD |
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| STORAGE TIME | ||
Fruits |
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l | Citrus |
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| 4 to 6 months | |
l | Commercially | frozen | 12 | months | |
l | Juice concentrates | 12 | months | ||
l | Others |
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| 8 to 12 months | |
Vegetables |
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l | Commercially | frozen | 8 | months | |
l | Home | frozen |
| 8 to 12 months | |
Meats |
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9 Bacon+ |
| 4 weeks | or less | ||
l | Corned | beef+ |
| 4 weeks | or less |
l | Frankfurters |
|
| 1 month |
lGround beef, veal and
lamb | 2 to 3 months |
lRoasts:
6 to 12 | months | |
6 to 9 | months |
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FOOD
Main dishes
l Casseroles (meat, poultry & fish)
lStews
lTV dinners
Dairy products 9 Butter
lMargarine
lCheese:++
Gouda, Swiss,
Brick, etc.
lIce cream, ice milk & sherbet
Eggs
l Whole (mixed)
lWhites l Yolks
STORAGE TIME
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2 to 3 months
2 to 3 months
3 to 6 months
6 to 9 months
12 months
3 months do not freeze
6 to 8 weeks
2 months
12 months
12 months
12 months
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| 4 | to 8 months | ||
l | Sausage | (fresh) | 1 to 2 months | |||
l | Steaks & chops: |
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| 8 to 12 months | |||
| veal | & pork | 3 | to 4 months | ||
Fish |
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l | Alaskan | king | crab |
| IO months | |
l | Blue fish & salmon | 2 | to 3 | months | ||
l | Breaded | fish |
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| (purchased) |
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| 3 | months | |
l | Clams, | oysters, |
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| cooked | fish, | crab & |
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| scallops |
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| 3 | to 4 | months |
lCod, flounder, sole &
| haddock |
| 6 | months |
l | Mackerel | & perch | 2 to 3 | months |
l | Shrimp | (uncooked) | 12 | months |
Poultry
lChicken or turkey
| (whole | or parts) | 12 | months |
9 Cooked | (WI gravy) | 6 | months | |
l | Duck |
| 6 | months |
l | Giblets |
| 2 to 3 | months |
l | Slices | (no gravy) |
| 1 month |
NOTE: Add sugar or salt to yolks or whole mixed eggs.
Baked goods
lBrown ‘N Serve rolls
| (baked) |
| 3 months | |||
l | Cakes | (frosted) | 8 to 12 | months | ||
l | Cakes | (unfrosted) | 2 to 4 months | |||
l | Cookies | (baked) | 8 to 12 | months | ||
l | Cookie | dough | 3 months | |||
l | Fruit | cakes | 12 | months | ||
l | Pies | (baked) | 1 to 2 | months | ||
l | Pies | dough | 4 to 6 months | |||
l | Quick |
| breads | 2 to 3 months | ||
l | Unbaked | breads |
| 1 month | ||
l | Yeast |
| breads & rolls | 3 months |
Salting meat shortens freezer life. ++Freezing can change texture of cheese
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