I kept it in a dark color crock and used it frequently to make a wonderful bread.
One day, the nanny was cleaning the fridge, found the starter and threw it out b/c she thought it was spoiled.! I was so angry!
[[Humans get sick with listeria infections, or listeriosis, from eating soil-contaminated food]]
Hmm, We eat veggies straight out the garden- fresh picked- while working in the garden- always have-
[[the date at which a food should go in the trash]]
Is 2-3 years past expiry date too long for things like mustard?
They say Twinkies have no expiry date- but i had a box in the cupboard that we forgot about and it was a few years old- opened the box, and the packages were nothing but disintegrated bars - a fine powder- - I shoulda tried to get my money back lol
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“They say Twinkies have no expiry date”
i always joked that anything made by Little Debbie were the perfect foods to stock a bomb shelter with because of the amount of preservatives they contain ...
They say Twinkies have no expiry date- but i had a box in the cupboard that we forgot about and it was a few years old- opened the box, and the packages were nothing but disintegrated bars - a fine powder- - I shoulda tried to get my money back lol
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Complete conjecture on my part, but I suspect the old school twinkies used to have some hardcore preservatives in them, and after they started to develop an infamous reputation in the last few decades for lasting forever, they subtly changed the recipe.
Alternatively, The put more preservatives in cereal products now than they used to. I remember when a loaf of bread wouldn’t last 4 days without getting stale, and growing mold within a week, even if you kept it packaged tight. These days I’ve seen bread last over two weeks.
Most vegetables last a lot longer, probably due to genetic modifications. I remember when a head of lettuce wouldn’t last 3 days in the refrigerator without turning brown, at least around the edges. The darned things last weeks now.
These seem like a good thing on their face, but I suspect we pay for it in other ways.
When we lived in the Middle East, we were told to not eat vegetables bought on the economy, b/c they use human waste as fertilizer in many cases.
So we had to soak produce in a bath of bleach b4 consuming.
Fortunately, we never got sick.
I kept it in a dark color crock and used it frequently to make a wonderful bread.
One day, the nanny was cleaning the fridge, found the starter and threw it out b/c she thought it was spoiled.! I was so angry!
“Hmm, We eat veggies straight out the garden- fresh picked- while working in the garden- always have-”
Okra, just cut off the plant, in the morning, after a light rain, sometimes I carry a salt shaker. Does not get any better.