Leftover Storage

When I cook, we always have leftovers. Usually I save them because it seems wasteful to throw out good food. The problem is that my husband does not eat leftovers, so it falls on me to eat them. Yea, me! Sometimes I do not finish all the leftovers or forget exactly how long they have been in the refrigerator.

I have come up with a new system for storing leftovers. I buy those Rubbermaid storage containers that have the colored lids. At certain times of the year, the lids will be different colors like for Halloween they were orange. I thought about buying some containers with different colored lids and then use one color for each day of the week. This way I will know when leftovers were put in the fridge.

If I can’t find enough colored lids, then I can get some of those colored stickers used to price items for rummage sales and assign a color for each day of the week. Then just place that color on the lid when I store leftovers. I could even write the date on the sticker since sometimes I go for a week longer without cleaning out the fridge.