Handout 01.17: Where Does It Go Sort

Name: ______________________ Date: __________ Team: ______

Part 1: The four zones and the two numbers

Label each zone and write the safe temperature where there is one.

Inside the refrigerator, raw meat goes on the ____________ shelf because ____________________.

The door of the refrigerator is the ____________ spot, so only ____________ go there.

Part 2: The sort

Directions: Your team has twelve food cards. Sort them into the four zones. Write each food in its zone. Then do the second sort: mark each food U (use first, within a few days), W (use this week), or M (keeps for months).

The twelve cards: raw ground beef, eggs, bananas, bread, canned beans, milk, frozen peas, cooked rice leftovers, potatoes, an open jar of salsa, a bag of flour, a rotisserie chicken bought today.

One card our team argued about: ____________. We put it in ____________ because ____________________.

Part 3: Dates, FIFO, and leftovers

Copy the meaning of each date phrase:

• Best by: ________________________________ (about ____________, not safety)
• Use by: ________________________________ (for raw meat, poultry, fish, and dairy, treat this as the limit)
• Sell by: ________________________________ (a note for the ____________)

FIFO stands for ____________ in, ____________ out. When you put a new can on the shelf, it goes ____________ the old can, so the old one gets used first.

The two-hour rule: cooked or perishable food goes into the refrigerator within ______ hours of coming off the heat or out of the store (______ hour if the room is over 90 F). After that, it goes in the trash.

Leftovers: eat within ______ to ______ days. If you will not, ____________ them. Label the container with the ____________.

Practice: milk says "sell by Tuesday." It is Wednesday and it smells fine. Safe or not? ______ Why? ____________________

Practice: leftover pasta sat out from 6 pm to 10 pm. Fridge or trash? ______ Why? ____________________

Part 4: The waste scenario

A family throws away this every week:

• Half a bag of spinach (the bag cost $2.99, so half is $1.50)
• Four slices of bread (the loaf cost $2.49 and has 20 slices, so four slices are about $0.50)
• One container of leftovers they forgot about (about $3.00 of food)

Weekly cost of the waste: $______ + $______ + $______ = $______

Yearly cost (times 52): $______

That is about ______ dinners at $40.

Two storage habits that would cut this waste, and why each works:

1. Habit: ____________________ Why it works: ____________________
2. Habit: ____________________ Why it works: ____________________

Sentence starter: "Our family could ____________ so that ____________ does not get thrown away."