Christmas cooking and storing

Choose the right-sized ham or turkey to serve the number of people at your table is the advice from Consumer NZ.

The service says some leftover meat makes for easy meals in the days following Christmas, but you don’t want it lingering too long.

Cooked turkey shouldn’t be kept more than two days.

Ham can be kept longer – as long as it’s stored correctly – but it should be eaten or frozen within two weeks.