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USDA app aims to stop Americans from wasting 36 lbs. food a month
Washington Examiner ^
| April 22, 2015 | 9:23 PM
| Paul Bedard
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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Food
KEYWORDS: nannystate; usda
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:19:33 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
The five-second rule is about to become the 5-week rule.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:20:22 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
A lot of Christian outreach lunch servers will be seriously curtailed
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:22:37 AM PDT
by
knarf
To: Olog-hai
It is about time that they tried to educate the idiots.
Many people seem totally clueless about food, and they just throw it out unopened and unused.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:24:01 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: Olog-hai
What is the cost, economic and humanitarian, of people getting sick or dying from eating bad food?
Seems like penny wise and dollar foolish to me.
Outright dangerous actually. Not worth it.
We are not that poor. Not yet anyway.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:25:11 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Olog-hai
The sad fact is,a lot of people are too stupid to manage the contents of their refrigerators.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:26:57 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Olog-hai
Do you actually believe people waste 36 pounds of food a month? According to the Dept AG Americans eat 164 lbs of food a month. So someone is claiming Americans are wasting 20% of their food in a day of refrigeration and microwaves?
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:27:08 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Olog-hai
This will work out well for the supermarket nearby that’s constantly selling things past the dates.
To: Olog-hai
stupid government - aren’t they the ones that require expiration dates on everything in the first place?
To: Olog-hai
Useless for me.
I’m a conservative and don’t waste much of anything.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:27:44 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: novemberslady
The customers are too dumb to check the date on the package.Or they’re too busy talking on their Obamaphones.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:29:36 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Olog-hai
Hold your nose and just eat it. Even if it is 18 months past the expiration date. That chicken still has a couple of good months left on it. I'll pull it back out of the trash and put it into the refrigerator.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:31:21 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
To: Olog-hai
It is smarter to toss foods that are questionable than to risk a repeat of the Ohio church dinner Botulism disaster from a few days ago.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:32:29 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit to exercise as a right?)
To: Farmer Dean
Nope the store has a lot of old stock to get rid of.
Of course they have been losing shoppers...
To: Olog-hai
More food is wasted because the wasters didn’t pay for it in the first place.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:32:51 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Olog-hai
I just used a can of peas yesterday with a “best by” date of February 2009. and the tomato sauce that I used was ‘best by’ 2012, and that is because I think that I am out of my ‘best by’ 2008 tomato sauce.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:34:45 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: BuffaloJack
It is smarter to toss foods that are questionable than to risk a repeat of the Ohio church dinner Botulism disaster from a few days ago. Yep. food poisoning is a nasty, nasty thing. When in doubt, throw it out.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:34:50 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: BuffaloJack
It is smarter to toss foods that are questionable than to risk a repeat of the Ohio church dinner Botulism disaster from a few days ago. Let's wait to find out what that was about.
I suspect "potatoes under tin foil"
Last night, I bought 7 pounds of "outdated" cheese for 8 bucks.
LOL! Meanwhile, people pay top dollar for "aged cheddar"...
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:36:54 AM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: Olog-hai; Kartographer
I have known for a LONG time that a lot of the expiration dates are bogus.
It simply forces the consumer to re-buy food that is actually still good.
My daughters went on an expiration-pitching orgy a few months ago - and a lot of our stash vanished overnight. It wasn’t a game-ender, but it hurt the effort...
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:37:31 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: Olog-hai
Thank goodness the government is here to teach us about waste (rolling eyes).
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