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What should you do when Thanksgiving dinner's over?

11.26.2008

Submitted by tmeronek on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 1:00am.
The Bite:
Recover from your food coma, then store the leftovers in healthy containers. Disposable storage materials are piling up in landfills faster than you can say "ziplock," and toxins in plastic are no fiesta, so reduce your daily polymer intake by using safer storers. Party on.
The Benefits: 
  • Happy hormones. Some plastics, such as PVC (look for #3 inside the recycle symbol on the container) and polystyrene (#6), contain hormone disruptors and other chems that can leach into food.
  • Lasting 'til after the party's over. Ceramic and glass containers don't warp or stain like plastic.
  • Celebrating less trash. Disposable plastic baggies can take 1,000 years to decompose.
  • Safer zapping. Doctors recommend that you don't microwave plastic; ceramic and glass go from fridge to microwave and back again without leaching toxins.
Personally Speaking: 
Jen's pilfered half of her mom's Pyrex collection over the years, and uses them for both cooking and storing.
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In 1954, Tupperware Home Party founder Brownie Wise became the first woman to grace the cover of Business Week.

Bang For The Bite

Longer lasting and healthier for you, alternatives to plastic are the better Biter option, but you gotta be a little more careful since they're sometimes breakable.

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Kim G  on October 28, 2009 at 05:03 AM 1
Pyrex is pretty durable - especially the older stuff, and the older Corningware (a lot of it says Pyroceram on the bottom). That stuff is indestructible! I wouldn't recommend the newer, stoneware Corningware so much though, it breaks much more easily. If you live near a Tanger Outlet, many of them have Corningware kitchen stores that carry a large variety of the glass dishes with hard plastic lids (I never heat stuff with the lids on them though - use a plate if you need to cover the dish).
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