Keep Food in Good Conditions

Keep in good condition you order food to take home as many times the food portions served in restaurants are bigger than those at home, they often do not eat a good portion of your plate and decide to ask the waiter to bring a box where you left over food.
This custom is very handy because you save money, consume fewer calories and not wasting food. However, it is very important to follow certain rules to keep in good condition this surplus, and know how long it can last in your refrigerator without damage.
Do you think it is healthy to take home the leftover food in your restaurant?
In the magazine, Runner’s World, the nutritionist Liz Applegate gives several tips for the food you left over from the restaurant to remain healthy for your body at the time of re-consuming, since, having traveled a longer trip before coming back to your mouth requires special handling. His tips are:
It should be well packaged. This means that cold foods like salads, they should go in a different box to the hot.
Take only the food that you ordered personally. Avoid bread or nachos that put on the table and that all you are caught with their hands. It is a way to avoid contracting diseases.
It is best to eat the leftovers the next day. Do not give long and less if you try sea food. After four days in your refrigerator, it is better desahacerte of those leftovers.
When you go to eat those foods you should submit them to high temperatures to destroy any bacteria they contain. In that sense, sauces and soups should be boiled and solids must be heated well inside and out.
Follow your common sense and if you notice that the food looks or smells something strange, you better not eat it.