Serves: 5

Foods Refrigerator (34° to 40°) Freezer (0° or below)

Baked Products
Breads--coffee cakes, muffins, 5 to 7 days 2 to 3 months
quick breads and yeast breads

Cakes--unfrosted and frosted 3 to 5 days Unfrosted--3 to 4 months
Frosted--2 to 3 months
Cheesecakes--baked 3 to 5 days 4 to 5 months

Cookies--baked Only if stated in recipe Unfrosted--no longer than 12 months
Frosted--no longer than 3 months

Pies--unbaked or baked fruit pies, Baked pumpkin pies, 3 to 5 days. Unbaked fruit pies--2 to 3 months
baked pecan and baked pumpkin Store fresh fruit or baked fruit pies Baked fruit pies--3 to 4 months
pies and baked pecan pies loosely covered
at room temperature no longer than
3 days.

Pie Shells--unbaked or baked Store in freezer Unbaked shells--no longer than
2 months
Baked shells--no longer than 4 months
Dairy Products

Cheese
  Cottage and ricotta 1 to 10 days Not recommended
  Cream No longer than 2 weeks No longer than 2 months
  Hard 3 to 4 weeks 6 to 8 weeks

Ice Cream, Sorbet and Freeze only 2 to 4 months
Frozen yogurt

Milk Products
Buttermilk No longer than 1 week Not recommended

Cream, half-and-half and whipping No longer than 5 days Not recommended

Cream, whipped 1 or 2 days No longer than 3 months

Regular milk--whole, 2%, 1% and No longer than 5 days No longer than 1 month
fat-free (skim)

Sour Cream No longer than 1 week Not recommended

Yogurt No longer than 3 weeks No longer than 1 month

Eggs

Raw
  Whole in shell 3 weeks Not recommended
  Yolks, whites 2 to 4 days. Cover yolks See Handling and Storing Eggs
with cold water. section of Eggs chapter.

Cooked
  Whole in shell 1 week Not recommended
  Yolks, whites 1 week Not recommended

Fats and Oils
Butter No longer than 2 weeks No longer than 2 months

Margarine and Spread No longer than 1 month No longer than 2 months

Mayonnaise and Salad Dressing No longer than 6 months Not recommended

Meats
Uncooked
  Chops 3 to 5 days 4 to 6 months
  Ground 1 to 2 days 3 to 4 months
  Roasts and Steaks 3 to 5 days 6 to 12 months

Cooked 3 to 4 days 2 to 3 months

Processed
  Cold cuts Opened--3 to 5 days Not recommended
Unopened--2 weeks Not recommended
  Cured bacon 5 to 7 days No longer than 1 month
  Hot dogs Opened--1 week 1 to 2 months
Unopened--2 weeks 1 to 2 months
  Ham
  -Canned, unopened 6 to 9 months Not recommended
  -Whole or half, fully cooked 5 to 7 days 1 to 2 months
  -Slices, fully cooked 3 to 4 days 1 to 2 months

Poultry

Uncooked
  Whole (including game birds, 1 to 2 days No longer than 12 months
  ducks and geese)
  Cut up 1 to 2 days No longer than 9 months
  Giblets 1 to 2 days No longer than 3 months
Cooked 3 to 4 days 4 months

Seafood

Fin Fish
  Uncooked full-flavor fish (mack- 1 to 2 days 2 to 3 months
  erel, salmon, trout, tuna, etc.)
  Uncooked mild-flavor fish (cod, 1 to 2 days 4 to 6 months
  flounder, grouper, halibut, orange
  roughy, snapper, etc.)
  Cooked and breaded fish Store in freezer 2 to 3 months

Shellfish
  Uncooked 1 to 2 days 3 to 4 months
  Cooked 3 to 4 days 1 to 2 months

From "Betty Crocker's Complete Cookbook, Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, 9th Edition." Text Copyright 2000 General Mills, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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