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Healthy Kitchen Makeover Challenge Day 9: Save your glass jars and use them to store food

By Kerri-Ann Jennings, September 16, 2011 - 9:29am

Looking for an easy way to build a collection of glass food storage containers? Save glass jars from jam, tomato sauce and peanut butter and use them to store food. Glass is a great alternative to plastic storage containers, which often contain BPA, a chemical that’s a known endocrine disruptor, which could be linked to prostate and breast cancer, infertility, heart disease and diabetes.

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Kerri-Ann Jennings is a registered dietitian with a master's degree in nutrition from Columbia University. She is the former associate nutrition editor for EatingWell Magazine.