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How to Make Sure Your Food Storage Is Safe
It has been a common practice to eat food left-over from last night's dinner. What we usually do is just place the food in the microwave oven and dinner is served.
The question now is "Are the foods we eat from last night's dinner safe?" You have no way of telling if the sandwich or piece of roast beef you just ingested is a hundred percent free from bacteria. The lack of food storage seems to be the issue here. If you have available food stored somewhere, would you bother eating left-over food? I think not.
This would then lead us to one important realization: we need to have food storage. Here are some pointers for you:
For cold storage: Maintain the fridge's temperature at 41 F when storing food. Also, make sure that you do not overstock your fridge for the air circulate freely and help chill foods easily. Label food with their expiry dates so that you'll know when not to eat them. Take note of the "first-in, first-out" policy when consuming foods.
Store frozen foods in moisture-proof containers to maintain food quality and to prevent cross-contamination. For left-overs and those removed from their original containers, you need to place them on air-tight containers to preserve its quality.
For dry storage Maintain items like canned goods, flour, sugar, rice and cereals in room temperature between 50 to 75 'F. Always keep your dry food storage area clean. Maintain a cleaning schedule for shelves for food storage. In this way your food will be free from rodents and insects. Check your shelves for items especially canned goods that are near expiration or that already expired to avoid poisoning.
Store food items away from your cleaning products; make sure that cabinets for your chemicals are far from your food storage to avoid any contamination and make sure it's out of the reach of your children.
Keeping food storage is very important to all households. It doesn't only serve as a source of food when mom failed to buy groceries. It serves a much higher purpose. Food storages can help sustain your family in times of severe disaster and crisis-times when there are no food sold in stores.
About the Author Greg Shuey is a food storage planner and facilitator. He helps families and individuals know what they need to get for emergency food storage and shows them how to do it inexpensively. Visit our site INeedFoodStorage.com for emergency food storage today!
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