The Spring Festival in the Year of the Monkey is getting closer and closer. Have you finished your New Year’s goods? During the New Year, I don’t want to eat out, and I’m too lazy to cook. I want to eat something good, and it’s easy to miss the meal. Take-out brother also went to the festival, don’t know how good to eat what? Here is a detailed [four steps to hoard goods].
Step 1 Warm up before hoarding: Empty lockers and refrigerators
- Make room for cool, dry and light-proof cabinets, refrigerators and refrigerators.
Thoroughly clean and dry; Reserve sufficient plastic wrap, sealed fresh-keeping bags and square fresh-keeping boxes with covers, and mark the temperature zones to facilitate food packaging and separation of raw and cooked food.
- Freezing compartment of refrigerator
Thoroughly clean, dry and defrost; If there is a particularly flat drawer on the top layer called [quick-freezing compartment], it is especially important to keep it clean.
The second step is to prepare for hoarding: buy buy can buy it at any time.
Considering the convenience of their own transportation and logistics, and by mistake mining and buying peak period in advance, they can freely purchase prepackaged foods with long shelf life and easy storage.
- Rice, flour, grain and oil dry goods
Daily rice, flour, coarse cereals, miscellaneous beans, it is suggested to hoard enough. Especially to consider the possibility of visiting relatives and friends. It is suggested to hoard some packaged noodles, egg noodles, buckwheat noodles and even instant noodles with various special flavors. Because it is faster to do, add a little auxiliary materials, and you can eat it.
- Cereal grain
Ready-to-eat oatmeal, mixed grains and coarse cereal flour are also more suitable for hoarding some for breakfast or extra meals when hungry. Very time-saving, but also can provide good nutrition, to remedy the problem of insufficient dietary fiber intake in holiday diet.
- Chong Tiao Cha Yin
Milk powder, soybean milk powder, sesame paste and quick drinking are good anti-hunger choices for lazy people. Coffee, tea, cocoa powder, etc. depend on whether there is a need for refreshing or personal preference.
You can also store some bagged or boxed high-temperature sterilized milk. If you have plans to travel far away, you can also store some [normal temperature yogurt]: unlike ordinary yogurt, they do not have to be refrigerated in the refrigerator. They can be kept in quality for 3-6 months at normal temperature and are very convenient to carry around.
It is not recommended to stock up a large amount of carbonated drinks, fruit juice drinks, herbal tea drinks, milk drinks and other sweet drinks, but only a small amount of fun.
- Leisure snacks
Other snacks, all kinds of dried meat, fish fillets, dried bean curd, dried eggs, candy, chocolate, biscuits, nuts, candied fruit, preserved fruit, puffed food, canned food and so on, can be available. For the holidays, don’t worry too much about health and unhealthy problems, just be happy.
One suggestion is: more varieties of snacks and less amount of each snack.
The third step focuses on hoarding: the last weekend before the Spring Festival
On the last weekend before the festival, you can choose to store some New Year’s goods with slightly poor storage characteristics in the nearest supermarkets and markets.
- Staple food
Store some quick-frozen staple foods, such as dumplings, steamed buns, pizza, etc., for a rainy day. They can be steamed, boiled or microwave heated to eat very quickly. It is recommended to put them on the top of the freezer.
If the family has its own tradition of making special staple foods, such as dumplings and steamed buns in the big north, steamed buns in Shandong, zongzi in the south and baked naan in Xinjiang, which cannot be eaten in large quantities at one time, it is recommended to pack small bags in food bags and store them in freezers. After thawing, the flavor is still the same.
Store more sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, taro and potatoes, which can give too fine a holiday diet and supplement good dietary fiber.
- Frozen vegetables
Store some frozen vegetables, except green leafy vegetables and melons and fruits that are not suitable for freezing, such as green peas, corn kernels, carrots, beans, etc. You can buy packaged vegetables or wash and cut them yourself and freeze them. It is recommended to put them on the upper or middle layer of the freezer.
- Pickled fried meat products
Many areas have the custom of killing pigs and sheep, making sausages and bacon again, and have changed to buy ready-made ones. Moreover, in order to reduce the trouble of firing and cooking during the festival, some families will make fried balls, fried meat pie, fried eggplant clip, fried yellow croaker and so on, which can be stored up and eaten hot at any time, and is also a good choice.
Pay attention to the separation of raw and cooked meat: cooked meat and staple food are frozen on the upper layer, while raw meat and aquatic products are frozen on the lower layer.
- Frozen aquatic products
Coastal areas or rivers, also have to hoard aquatic products. As the first few days of the Spring Festival will be more difficult to buy fresh aquatic products or the price is relatively high, can hoard chilled or frozen in advance, must be separated from frozen staple food, vegetables and cooked food, hoard in the lowest layer of the freezer, to ensure the temperature is below minus 18 degrees Celsius.
- Fruit
Hoard some immature fruits, such as bananas, peaches, kiwi fruit, persimmons and avocados, which can be eaten at room temperature for a few days when they are ripe. Warm and tropical fruits, such as bananas, papaya, mangoes, passion fruits, oranges, etc., should be stored in a cool place at room temperature as far as possible, and should not be refrigerated, otherwise cold damage such as black spots will occur due to low temperature.
However, try freezing strawberries, mulberries, peeled bananas, mangoes, durian, etc. and putting a layer of frozen staple food. It can be eaten as popsicles without thawing, which is especially cool.
- Eggs
Store some eggs and you can make boiled eggs or steamed egg custard with milk flavor without difficulty. The fresher the egg, the better. Usually it can last for 2 weeks at room temperature. However, if the eggs are put into a sealed fresh-keeping box and then put into the refrigerator compartment, separated from other foods, they can be stored for one month.
Step 4 Sprint Dun: On New Year’s Eve or a day earlier,
The rest is relatively short shelf life.
- Leafy vegetables, fruits and vegetables, fresh mushrooms
In case the vegetable market is closed or the supermarket is in short supply, hoard some fresh mushrooms and vegetables that can be eaten for a few days during the Spring Festival. For example, wax gourd, western blue flower, cabbage flower, celery, Chinese cabbage, cabbage and lettuce, you can buy more and put them for a few more days. However, green leafy vegetables such as spinach and rape should be bought less and eaten as early as possible.
- Yogurt or bus sterilized milk
If there is no plan to go out for a long time, estimate the amount of drinking during the Spring Festival, hoard some yogurt or bus sterilized milk with the nearest production date, and refrigerate at the required temperature according to the product packaging requirements.
- Fruit that is not resistant to storage.
If you don’t want grapes, apples, pears, strawberries and fruits to mature and rot prematurely, you should pay attention to putting them into sealed storage boxes with paper bags or net bags according to different types, and then put them into the refrigerating chamber.
Note: All fruits are to be eaten before cleaning.
- Tofu and bean products
Tofu is easy to deteriorate and turn sour. If it will be eaten within a few days, you can put the tofu in a fresh-keeping box filled with light salt water and then put it in the refrigerator. If you plan to eat it every few days, it is recommended to store it in the lower layer of the freezer and turn it into frozen tofu.