Posted on 04/23/2015 9:19:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Agriculture Department has determined that 36 pounds of food per person is wasted every month, about 21 percent of the available food in the United States. And one big reason: those expiration dates are wrong or overly cautious.
The solution: Hold your nose and just eat it. Even if it is 18 months past the expiration date.
It sounds yucky, but officials think theyve got the trick to get moms to feed expired but safe food to kids and adults aliketheyve even got an app. Its called FoodKeeper and it is supposed to have a more accurate calculation of food expiration dates, even for baby food and eggs.
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You forget about the Obama school lunch program. I bet that equals 30 of the 36 pounds of wasted food per month.
My dad swore, that expiration dates were there just to make you buy more food. He grew up when there were no expiration dates.
When we would visit him in his later years, we would have to dump out his milk and throw stuff out of his fridge, because he swore up and down milk was good till 2 weeks after the date!
This is what growing up in the depression made him think.
We would dump the milk out, and it would be chunky, and he would say that it was “sleeping milk” a term I have herd a few times in my life.
Gross.
You would pour it in coffee, and it would sit on the top, lol.
Bread? Old? No way! Scrape the green off he would (if he could see it).
And mind you, he had money, was in no way hurting to buy milk or bread.
Just his mind set.
I haven’t thrown out 36 lb of food in the last decade.
I heard a radio news report yesterday say that the reason for this is to increase the time covered by the ‘use by’ dates. The FDA seems to realize many foods are still edible long after the ‘use by’ date has passed.
You described my In-Laws, both born in 1925.
Depends entirely on the container. A good steel can, un-dented and free of rust: 20 years or more. I’ve eaten bacon that was canned in 1943. . . .in 1987 (Bulk ration bacon, came in a #10 can, that’s what they served, as well as scrambled eggs from Egg Powder canned in 1955. . . all in a military field kitchen)
If the can is swelled, cracked, or leaking, throw it out, but otherwise, if it smells fine, it should be fine. . .
Agreed.
Agreed; if it is not actually crawling off my plate I will eat it.
Pushing 65 and have eaten some pretty dicey things in my life, never have had “food poisoning” and don’t expect to start now.
This article is bullshit.
My wife will buy a rotisserie chicken for $5 at Costco. One night, I'll have some breast meat and she'll eat the legs. The next day she picks the chicken clean for chicken tacos or enchiladas. Then the carcass goes to make the base for a soup. That girl can work a chicken.
She can make the most of leftovers. I guess she learned it from her mother. She uses one of those vacuum sealer things to freeze food that will go bad before it gets eaten.
Neither of us come from wealthy families, but we weren't dirt poor either. Wasting food was a sin in our house.
"You can have all you want, but if it's on your plate, you eat it." "Don't complain about garden chores. You'll be thankful for those vegetables in the winter." "We hunt and fish to eat. We don't kill anything we won't clean and eat."
A different era, I suppose. Thrift was valued.
You’re describing a pro-family and anti-collectivist era. That’s the antithesis of the left and their false scriptures (the Commie Manifesto and Das Kapital).
We’re Americans. Throw the food away.
This ain’t no gulag or 3rd world country...
A power mad government agency that takes millions of pounds of food products and destroys it every year because of some 80 year old socialist ‘New Deal’ policy telling us to conserve food.
Get caught feeding your baby expired baby food and you wont have your baby for long...CPS would be all over that in a heart beat.
Got a source for that?
Be intelligent and discerning, not superstitious or gullible.
When there is no reason to throw out food, then don’t.
Nonsense.
Canned food keeps for 8-10 years easily.
Feeding a baby anything but mother’s milk is what should alarm everyone.
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"It sounds yucky, but officials think theyve got the trick to get moms to feed expired but safe food to kids and adults aliketheyve even got an app. Its called FoodKeeper and it is supposed to have a more accurate calculation of food expiration dates, even for baby food and eggs.
I didnt say anything about the baby food being no good.
I said :
Get caught feeding your baby expired baby food and you wont have your baby for long...CPS would be all over that in a heart beat.
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