Greens, veggies, meats, and eggs get eaten as fast as they come into the house and almost never have time to spoil! Takeout leftovers usually go bad because they are in unfamiliar containers and get shoved to the back of the fridge. The worst though is half-open jars...of anything. Pasta sauce is the prime offender and it molds really disgustingly. I ticked the fruit box because for a while we were keeping the oranges and the bananas together and the bananas would ripen in a big hurry and then secretly rot the oranges underneath so that by the time we finished the bananas the oranges would be suspicious. Now that the fruits are stored apart this is much less of a problem.
Try labeling the take-out container. This works particularly well with the white Chinese take-out boxes. Doesn't work so well for me now that I've gotten much better at taking my own containers with me to the restaurant.
I've heard good things about pushing down a piece of plastic wrap right up against the surface of the pasta sauce. Haven't tried it myself, though: we tend to freeze half-jars in bags to save space.
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moominmolly) wrote2011-05-10 03:57 pm
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