Christmas in the tropics, especially in the eastern archipelagos, is quite different from what your usual idea of a Christmas is. For one, there is no such thing as a “White Christmas”. The temperature may be slightly lower than it is compared to summer days, but all you really need to wear is a thin sweater and you’re good to go.
Christmas is celebrated with much delight. In fact, it’s the most celebrated occasion of the year. Tons and tons of food appear in the table for all the family members to enjoy. Families tend to over-prepare. In the end of the celebration, what usually happens is that more than half of the food is usually left uneaten. These leftovers are usually taken home by guests, but nevertheless, a large portion is still left: enough to feed the family for the next five days or so.
Storing all the leftovers is a major challenge. There are a lot of factors that must be taken to consideration. First is the temperature. The tropics are considerably warmer and bacteria love warm places. They just love to breed in a warm surroundings hence the food tends to spoil faster. You might point out that there’s always the refrigerator available. Unfortunately, since there is so much leftover food after Christmas, you have to pick and choose the ones that you place in your fridge.
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The warm temperature too means more insects. The most annoying of all are ants. Ants are everywhere and they have all sorts of ways of getting into your food, especially if you just leave them in the open. Lastly, because of the amount of the food that you have, the tendency is, you’ll run out of storage containers.
What a lot of families do in order to cope up with these problems is to use lockable plastic storage containers. Specifically, they use storage containers that use rubber gaskets for a better seal. These containers are really well suited for handling leftovers, specially the lockable ones because they tend to keep moisture out, extending the life of any food. Dry foods, which tend to last longer than wet foods typically, don’t have to go to the fridge anymore. Locking plastic storage are also effective against ants and other insects. The ants would have to eat the plastic first before they can get to your food. This has actually happened with cheaper plastic containers so be careful in the type of product you are buying. There are a lot of lockable plastic containers in the market that are of good quality but at the same time, very affordable. In fact, even those with better quality tend to be cheaper than all other type of locking plastic boxes.
It’s amusing how a lot of families also like giving these sorts of containers to their relatives for Christmas. What usually happens is that once they receive a set for Christmas, it’ll be instantly used in the same day, and even on New Year when the same predicaments take place.
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