Food storage guide STORING FRESH FOOD
There IS a rrght way to package and store refrrg-
erated or frozen foods To keep foods fresher, longer,
take the trme to study these recommended steps
Leafy Vegetables
Remove store wrapping Trim
or tear off bruised and drscolored areas Wash In
cool water, drain and store in crrsper Cold, moist atr
helps keep leafy vegetables fresh and crtsp
Vegetables with Skins
(carrots, peppers) Store
in crrsper, plastic bogs or plastic contolner
Fruits
Wash, let dry and store In refrigerator in
plostrc bags or crisper Do not wash or hull berries
untrl they are ready to use Sort and keep berries irl
their store container In a crisper. or store In a looselv
closed paper bag on a refrigerator shelf
Meat.
Meat IS perrshable and expensive you
won’t want to waste an ounce of It through careless
hondlrng The followrng lrst and chart give you pack-
aging hunts and trme llmrts Store meat In the meat
wn
Milk
Wipe rmik cartons For best storage place
ml/k on rritertor stNf
Fresh, Prepackaged Meat.
Store fresh meat lr
the store wrapping Vacuum packaged meat car
Beverages
Wipe bo+tles and cans Store on o
door shelf or Inside the refrigerator
Butter
Keep opened butter in covered dish cr In
the Butter Comportmer? When storing on extra sup
p’y, wrap In freezer PackagIng and freeze
Cheese
be trozen for as long as one month If the seal
IS
not Store in the orlgrnal wrapping untrl
you are ready to use it Once opened, re-wrap
broken tf you want to keep It frozen longer, you tightly In ptastrc wrap or aluminum foil
should wrap It with specral freezer wropplng material
Condlments
Fresh Meat, Not Prepackaged.
Remove Store small Jars and bottles (cat-
the sup, mustard, jelly, olrves) on the door shelves where
market wrapping paper and re-wrap loosely In they are rn easy reach
waxed paper or aluminum foil for storing It unfrozen
Cooked Meat.
Wrap or cover cooked meat with
leftovers
Cover leftovers with plastic wrap or
aluI*llnum foil to keep food from drying out and
waxed Paper. Ptastrc wrap or atumlnum foil Store trar,sferrrng food odors Plastic containers witi: trght
immedlotely lids are fine, too
STORAGE CHART FOR FRESH AND CURED MEAT*
We Approxlmate Time
Ways1
Vari6ty Meats . . . 1 to 2
Chicken . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 to2
Ground Beef . . . . . . 1 to 2
Steaks and Roasts . . . . . . . . 3 to 5
Cured Meats . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 to 10
Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5to7
ColdCuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3to5
*If meat is to be stored longer than the times given,
follow the directions for freezing.
same day OS purchased
Cured or Smoked Meat and Cold Cuts.
Ham.
bacon, sausage, cold cuts, etc keep best
in
origl-
nal wropprngs Once opened, tightly re-wrap in
plastic wrap or aluminum foil
Canned Ham. Store
in refrigerator unless the lo-
bel soys it’s okay to store on the shelf Do not freeze
Fresh Poultry
Loosely ‘wrap In ‘waxed Paper or
Plas+lc wrap The piastlc tiroro or Poultrv, as Pur
chased, may be used for storoge
NOTE:
Fresh fish and shellfish should be used the
Eggs
Store wrthcut washrng tn the cfrginal
carton or use the egg nest in the door of your
refrrgerator