Community Meals, Inc.
201.447.8295
  • Home
  • Meals
  • Volunteer
  • Giving Opportunities
  • Contact Us
  • President's Report 2020
  • COVID-19 UPDATES

Food Handling Tip Sheet

Valley Hospital Dining FOOD HANDLING TIP SHEET
This food handling tip sheet provides guidelines for the proper handling of your meals. Proper refrigeration and re-heating of your meals is necessary to ensure safe food handling.

Food Handling Tips:          
  • If not home when meal(s) arrive, leave an insulated cooler for the delivery volunteers to place meals on ice.
  • Refrigerate meal(s) immediately if you do not plan to eat them right away.
  • You can re-heat foods in your oven, toaster oven or microwave* to an internal temperature of 165 degrees or more. For example in oven - heat meal 15-20 minutes in 150-degree oven.
    * Remove meal from aluminum tin before microwaving
  • Optimum time for using leftovers is one (1) day. Food may look and smell fine, but can still spoil if kept for longer than this.
  • Always cover meals before storing in refrigerator.


Distributed by: Community Meals, Inc.
© 2020 Community Meals, Inc., c/o The Community Church of Glen Rock, 354 Rock Road, Glen Rock NJ 07452