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Considering bringing your lunch to work? You should! Not only does it save you money, it can also help with your weight loss efforts. Plus, bringing your lunch to work is a great way to ensure that you get lots of healthy nutrients from your meals and leave lunch hour feeling energized for the afternoon. Of course, it also means that food can be left unrefrigerated for a long time. This gives bacteria a chance to grow and multiply, which increases the risk of food poisoning. When preparing lunch, keep in mind the following food safety tips.
The nature of bagged lunches makes it almost impossible to properly refrigerate food (store food at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit or lower), especially when driving to work or taking a bus to school.
Even if your school or workplace provides a refrigerator to store lunch, you still need to do some careful planning to ensure that the food packaged for lunch does not cause foodborne illness.
A soft insulated lunch bag or lunch box is the best choice to keep lunch cool. Metal or plastic lunch boxes without insulation are not well done, but they are definitely better than paper lunch bags.
If you are using a paper lunch bag, the double bag can add a layer of insulation to help protect the food inside. Please remember that insulated lunch tote bags and bento boxes should be washed with hot soapy water after each use.
No matter what kind of custom lunch bag or bento box you use, you should definitely put an ice pack in it to keep the food inside cold. Small frozen gel bags are perfect for this task.
You can also freeze juice boxes or small bottles of water and pack them in personalized lunch bags or bento boxes. This will not only keep your lunch cool, but your frozen beverage will melt during lunch time, providing you with a cool, refreshing juice or water to enjoy your lunch.
Perishable foods include cooked meats such as cold cuts and other luncheon meats, as well as pre-made tuna salads, chicken salads and egg salads. All these foods are potential targets for bacteria that cause food poisoning, so they must be refrigerated.
And more than just homemade sandwiches that need refrigeration. Any packaged lunch set that contains lunch meat, biscuits and cheese, bought in the store, must also be kept cold.
Remember the peanut butter and jelly sandwich? This humble sandwich is an ingenious invention before the widespread use of household refrigerators (not to mention frozen gel packaging and insulated lunch bags). Since bread, peanut butter and jelly are not perishable, peanut butter and jelly are perfect sandwiches for making brown lunches.
Examples of other foods that do not need to be kept cold include whole fruits, French fries, crackers, mustard, pickles, and unopened canned meat and fish.
Many people choose to package it because it is a great way to save money. When we try to be frugal, we may be tempted to reuse paper lunch bags, sandwich bags, aluminum foil and plastic wrap. Unfortunately, once these items are used, they may contaminate other foods and cause foodborne illness. The safest thing to do is to discard them.
If you find it wasteful, you can make up for the control of the practice part. Do not pack more than you can eat during lunch time. Leftovers stored for the rest of the day may not be safe to eat.
If you do have leftovers and you can’t refrigerate them, follow one of the mantras of the food service industry: "When in doubt, throw it out."
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