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• Storage: Time Limits for Frozen Food

  Published: October 21, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Food, Storage, Top

  info on storing frozen foods, the answer to that is a big no. Here are the time limits for properly prepared and packaged food in the freezer: Fruits and Vegetables: 8-12 Months Poultry: 6-9 Months Fish: 3-6 Months Ground Meat: 3-4 Months Cured or Processed Meat: 1-2 Months Good rules of thumb to remember the next time you're rummaging

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• What's in your freezer?

  Published: December 3, 2007, 5:11 am

  Tags: Chicken Broth, Food Storage, Foodstorage, Freezer, Frozen Foods, Nuts

  said, " Who eats all this food?" I quickly tried to explain that I like to keep a fairly stocked freezer so that I can pull meals together easily. I also tend to have three or four varieties of nuts, some summer fruit and homemade chicken broth stashed away as well. He shrugged and said, "Often when you open our freezer, all you see in

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• Store onions in your pantry - oops we mean panty - hose

  Published: February 5, 2008, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Food Storage, Onions, Pantyhose

  Filed under: Vegetables, On the Blogs, How ToThis might be something that everyone else and their mothers (and likely, grandmothers) already knows, but since there has been all of about three occasions in my entire lifetime that I've ever worn pantyhose, I didn't know that you can use them to store onions.Apparently, onions will stay fresh for six

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• Plastic water bottles, hot cars and breast cancer: What you need to know about PET and BPA

  Published: March 18, 2008, 3:06 pm

  Tags: Cancer News, Eating Well, Health Risks, In The News, Lifestyle, Media, New Research, Bpa, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Risk, Carcinogens, Cdc, Dr Z, Dr Z S Medical Report, Ed Zimney, Enviroblog, Environmental, Estrogen, Food Storage, Health Blog, Healthtalk, Hot

  that come into contact with food, such as certain plastic beverage containers and baby bottles, plastic dinnerware, and plastic food storage containers. Epoxy resins are part of the protective linings used in food and beverage cans, and it is likely that canned food is the major source of human consumption of BPA (in addition to that from

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• Handy Little Calculator

  Published: May 17, 2008, 12:17 am

  Tags: Food, Food Storage, Pantry

  How much food do you need? Many people, particularly members of the Mormon Church, believe that you should stock one full year’s worth of food. There is even a calculator here to help you decide how much to have on hand to satisfy a year’s nutritional needs. Obviously, this is not a one-size-fits-all solution. I, for

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• How to wrap and store cheeses so they last longer

  Published: June 6, 2008, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Cheese, Cheese Paper, Cheesepaper, Featured, Food Storage, Foodstorage, Plastic Wrap, Plasticwrap

  Cheese, How To, Artisan FoodsHow many times have you gone home with a bag of delicious cheeses only to discover a week later that they've all gone bad?There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding how we should store cheese. While some people argue that plastic wrap (Saran, Reynolds, etc) suffocates cheese and distorts its flavor, others

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• Safe Food Storage

  Published: July 5, 2008, 11:58 pm

  Tags: Articles, Health, Food, Safe, Safe Food Storage, Storage

  of the refrigerator. Use food stored in the refrigerator quickly. Don’t depend on maximum storage time. Clean the refrigerator slowly to cut downhill on food odors. Remove spoiled foods right out to hold off decay based on data from soaring to a great deal more foods. Freezer Storage The perfect temperature for frozen food storage is at

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