Leftover Mania!

Well, lets make it to the fullest, now I'll present you more leftover tips for you to have some useful ideas to save money and avoid wasting...

* Use Spices. Aside from the common way of reheating your leftover, you can also make a brand new dish out of it. Add spices and herbs to your leftover food items and use them as ingredients in just about any recipe you can think of. Its not to bad to experiment sometimes and try to be more creative as well.

* Use The Veggies. We often dispose the leftover vegetables in the garbage not knowing that it can still be use as another additives or can create other recipes too. Veggies are great to use in just about any recipe. Not only are they good for your health, but they will save you money because they won't go to waste.

* Make Desserts. This is the best thing to do in any sweet leftover such as fruits, candies, cookies, pies, there are lots of yummy recipes for this; in fruits you can add it in making cakes, muffins, and breads; about dried-out bread it can be made into bread pudding; Oh..creating some dessert is a great thing to do specially when you want to chill out and relax.

* Use Eggs. Its only sometimes that we have eggs leftover from the last meal. Though using of it with other leftover ingredients is good. Use it to make another omelets, quiches, and scrambles. Eggs are also indispensable for binding together ingredients such as burgers, meatloaf, dough, and bakery dishes.

January 14 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Save Your Leftover!

After a long vacation and celebrations, there will be lots of food leftover... There will be instances that you don't have enough space where to put it, and due to this some might get spoiled.

I'll just share to you some little tips in which you can prevent spoilage of foods and right ways to store it:

* Hot foods can only be left within 2 hours outside the refrigerator, if its been out for more than 2 hours better not to keep it. Don't taste it, either, just to know if its already spoiled. Even a small amount of contaminated food can cause illness.

* If your going to cool a hot perishable food it should be done quickly. Don't cool leftovers on the kitchen counter, better to put them straight into the refrigerator or cool them in a bowl surrounded by ice water, then refrigerate.

* Date leftovers will only remain safe when refrigerated for three to five days, but leftovers containing meat will only last within 3 days.

* About foods with mayonnaise or other egg-based products may not be safe to eat for the next day, you should consume it within the day.

* It will be good also if you will plan of using the leftovers. They can be used as an additives or alternatives in other dishes. You can even create a different recipes out of leftovers.

* Lastly, do not rely on reheating leftover food to make mishandled food safe.

Just hope that this will help a bit for all and lets keep ourselves healthy by eating the right and safe foods! ^^

January 12 ,2010

88DB Philippines