How Long Can We Store Food In Fridge? Melanie Help Needed

You can freeze dal and sambar for weeks, but some of the sambar vegetables might be a bit different texture-wise. If you are keeping in fridge immediately after cooking then I usually keep for 2 days, no more than 3 for all the items you have listed. I don’t know about dosa batter freezing. I buy it ready made and use within 1 week.

 

Please read through chitra ma'am's threads ....she has given a clear idea on meal preparations for the week so that you can cook in a jiffy.

We also get to see so many instagram posts on meal prepararions on insta.

 

In the year 2008 @krishnamma had covered all aspects of kitchen work including food preparation preservation refregeration etc. the link:

Kitchen tips for newly married and settled abroad
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Foods refrigerated stays ok for about 2days especially the South Indian veg foods. Of course the items taste would diminish and certain vegetables in sambar would be distasteful. Frozen dough of idli -dosa after thawing out for long did not cook well.

Moreover there is disappearance of Salt from the food refrigerated. Once thawed it’s not to be kept back in fridge for afterwards eating. This is experience in 220 volts supply whereas in USA it is 110.

Nutrionally speaking, the eating would be monotonous and family members all or few would get fed up easily with same food again and again throughout the day or days.

However my South Indian vegetarians - kith and kin in USA DO NOT cook daily. I heard them cook only in the week end for the entire working week. In India decade ago frozen ready foods introduced in retail but not picked up well.

Bought and Tried frozen chappathi and parrota once and bade good bye to it.

 

Generally couple of days. Make sure they’re dry after washing before you cut and store.