You know butter containers, yogurt cups with lids, cottage cheese containers?
Well you should!
These make great FREE containers for leftovers. For lunches! Then you don’t have to worry about them making it back home. For storage, tons of uses really!
Sometimes there’s just a little bit of something left over, just about the right size for a yogurt cup. Then it can go off the next day in someone’s lunch.
Open a can of broth but didn’t need it all? Save the rest in a free lidded ‘to go’ cup and use it later. You can even freeze it in the container too.
An easy way to remember what’s in it is to either mark the container or have a spot in the fridge just for leftovers.
Just yesterday, I opened a bag of shredded cheese and the bag tore. I grabbed a potato salad container and the cheese fit in there perfectly.
The day before, I made banana pudding complete with vanilla wafers. I bought the vanilla wafers that were by the bananas instead of walking all the way over to the cookie aisle. These wafers came in a plastic bag which promptly tore when I opened them. They too went into a used food container.
I know some people keep lids in one drawer and the bases in another spot. Personally, I like to store the container with the lid attached. Saves some aggravation.
