It may be tempting to gobble up your Thanksgiving feast over several days, but food safety experts warn that you can get severely ill if you don’t properly handle the leftovers.
“Leftovers are one of the best parts of Thanksgiving, but once the meal is over, they need to be safely stored,” Lester Schonberger, an associate extension specialist in the Department of Food Science and Technology at Virginia Tech, said last week.
Leftovers can be generally kept in the fridge for three or four days — basically until the Monday after Thanksgiving — and in the freezer for two to six months. Fevziie – stock.adobe.com
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