Avoid Frozen Food Loss During Summer Power Blackouts with New AnswerGirls Booklet
Is It Safe to Eat? A Guide to Freezing Food (AnswerGirls $1) could save a family hundreds of dollars when the power goes out. Learn how to guard against frozen food loss during a power outage, how long foods can be frozen, and more.
Online, July 14, 2010 (Newswire.com) - A new, downloadable booklet, "Is It Safe to Eat? A Guide to Freezing Food," (AnswerGirls $1) helps homeowners rescue a freezer full of food when the power goes off. It is available exclusively from www.AnswerGirls.com.
When there's no electricity and outside temperatures soar, pre-planning for such emergencies can buy extra time, and allow cold to be extended for at least a day or two:
"Freezers full of food retain their cold during outages much longer than largely empty ones. If you're storing very little food in the freezer, group the food together on the lowest shelf, and freeze water in plastic milk jugs (no more than ¾ full) to serve as blocks of ice during a power outage."
Once food thaws, it must be eaten immediately or discarded. This invaluable booklet tells how to make a handy defrost gauge that will show whether or not food has thawed out during an extended vacation.
While foods that have remained frozen are safe to eat, they lose their peak flavor in time. So it helps to know the flavor "life expectancy" of the different foods in a freezer, and these will vary. This concise, yet thorough, booklet offers a detailed list of peak flavor times for many different foods.
To learn even more about freezing, thawing, preparing frozen foods and surviving a power outage, download "Is It Safe to Eat? A Guide to Freezing Food" at www.AnswerGirls.com/food2.html
