What’s on the Leftovers poster
A 7-row table: Food · Fridge · Freezer.
Refrigerated at 0–5°C, in a sealed container.
- Cooked meat — 3–4 days — 2–3 months
- Cooked rice — 1 day — 1 month
- Soups and stews — 3–4 days — 3 months
- Cooked fish — 2–3 days — 2 months
- Cooked vegetables — 3–4 days — 2 months
- Hard-boiled eggs — 1 week — Do not freeze
- Opened tinned food — 2 days, decanted — Varies
Cooked rice is the strictest: Bacillus cereus spores survive cooking and multiply at room temperature. Cool it fast and eat within a day.
Questions about the Leftovers poster
- What’s on the Leftovers poster?
- A 7-row table: Food · Fridge · Freezer. Refrigerated at 0–5°C, in a sealed container. Cooked meat — 3–4 days — 2–3 months; Cooked rice — 1 day — 1 month; Soups and stews — 3–4 days — 3 months; Cooked fish — 2–3 days — 2 months; Cooked vegetables — 3–4 days — 2 months; Hard-boiled eggs — 1 week — Do not freeze; Opened tinned food — 2 days, decanted — Varies. Cooked rice is the strictest: Bacillus cereus spores survive cooking and multiply at room temperature. Cool it fast and eat within a day.
- Who is the Leftovers poster for?
- Leftovers belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning food safety can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Leftovers poster?
- Cool within two hours, refrigerate, and reheat once only. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Leftovers belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Leftovers?
- Barbecue Safety, Preserving Safely and Cleaning sit alongside Leftovers in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Barbecue SafetyPreserving SafelyCleaning
- Is the Leftovers poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Leftovers downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Leftovers poster print at?
- Leftovers is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Leftovers loses nothing.Printing guide
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