Make Food Storage and Sharing a Snap

(NewsUSA) - The fun and energy that fills your home after entertaining friends can vanish as soon as it's time to clean up the kitchen. Finding containers to store food, finding lids for each container and rearranging the refrigerator are tedious tasks, taking up time that could be better spent reflecting on the night's festivities.

With Hefty Serve 'n Store Everyday disposable plates, serving, storing and sharing food is a snap - literally. The plates snap together with interlocking rims that form a storage container. Every plate is a lid, and every lid is a plate.

To send leftovers home with guests, simply cover the plate with another plate. Guests can take their food home without worrying about spills, and hosts can share leftovers without losing storage containers.

For family members who are eating dinner later, the meal can be put together on a plate, covered with a second plate and put into the refrigerator.

Refrigerated foods can be stored this way for about two days; cookies and other foods that do not require refrigeration can be stored for three to four days.

Food can be microwaved with these Serve 'n Store Everyday plates; they help retain food moisture and prevent splatters.

Interlocked Serve 'n Store plates also can be used to prepare food. For example, to bread meats, pour breading into one of the plates, add two to three pieces of meat, cover tightly with another plate and shake gently.

For scrambled eggs, mix two eggs with 2 tablespoons of milk in a plate, cover loosely with another, and microwave for 1 minute and 30 seconds, stirring halfway through.

Available in 9- and 10-inch plates and 16-ounce bowls, Hefty Serve 'n Store products are sold in grocery stores and mass merchandisers nationwide.

For more information, visit www.heftyservenstore.com or e-mail HeftyConsumerProducts@pactiv.com.