The Key To How To Store Your Foods Properly

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

Eat healthily, live safely! This is our motto that we encourage you to make as the basis of your life. Realizing the benefits of healthy eating and adopting the right healthy lifestyle are the basics of lengthening your lifespan.

Eating healthy means adding more beneficial foods of nutritional value to your food plan. Consider veggies and fruits as the first foods to start consuming. The question here is regarding how and where you place these foods to keep them fresh?

We all want our kitchens to look tidy and clean. We, therefore, try to store foods based on kitchen organization hacks we read somewhere. However, kitchen organization ideas might not be always helpful in preserving the freshness of foods.

We might end up spoiling the most expensive foods we got from natural food stores. The kitchen cupboards are not the only places in your kitchen where you can store food. If you are interested in tips on how to store food properly, keep reading!

1. What should be placed in the kitchen cupboards?

Before going on your shopping journey for groceries at Wegman’s, Publix, Aldi, or other grocery stores, compile a grocery list of all what you need to limit your budget and get only what you really need.

If you don’t like shopping for groceries, you could use a Walmart grocery app to shop online. At all rights, if you don’t store the bought foods properly, all of your groceries will spoil. Only few foods can be stored in the kitchen cabinets. Examples:

• Chocolate: do you want to keep your chocolate candy bars from Milka or Nestlé safe? Well, you should keep them in a cold spot like the kitchen cupboard. The fridge is not the right place where to keep the chocolate bars (if you do store them in, you would notice a white plaque on the bars).

• Bread: this is a must-have ingredient in many cuisines. Normally, bread should be placed in a box with some salt to prevent mold. The bread or toast that you get from the supermarket can stay safe in its plastic bag for few days, but the mold would soon find its way in. The plastic blocks the flow of air to the bread, resulting in the formation of mold. Keeping bread in the kitchen cupboards and airing the cupboards are an excellent idea.

• Honey: this is one of the ingredients that do not have a specific shelf life. What matters the most is that you store it properly and correctly. Honey should be stored in a dark and cold spot. If it is placed in the fridge, some of its good properties will be lost.

• Olive oil: in line with the consideration of kitchen organization ideas, the freshness and good properties of the foods must be taken into account as well. For instance, you cannot keep olive oil on the countertop exposed to sunlight. It should be kept somewhere away from sunlight at room temperature.

• Garlic and onions: if you are not into going out and shopping for fresh groceries, you could use the grocery delivery service; it is handy! If you buy garlic and onions, the latter must be kept fresh. How? They should be put in a box placed in a kitchen cupboard.