How you handle, prepare and store food can mean the difference in safe eating or foodborne illness.
Some basic tips can make decisions easy.
F. So make sure that you keep foods out of this zone. This means icing cold picnic foods and packing hot foods in foil and storing them on a warmer. As food sits out, the temperature begins to move to the danger zone. So serve picnic food, put it away and get it out again later if you want more. The length of time you can store animal foods varies, but generally cooked meat and lunch meats are good for three to four days, processed bacon can keep for one week and eggs for four to five weeks.