Vegans tell you to eat your mature greens regularly, so here they go...
Posted on 06/18/2019 3:55:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Last year, Mom’s Organic Market founder and chief executive Scott Nash did something many of us are afraid to do: He ate a cup of yogurt months after its expiration date. Then tortillas a year past their expiration date. “I mean, I ate heavy cream I think 10 weeks past date,” Nash said, “and then meat sometimes a good month past its date. It didn’t smell bad. Rinse it off, good to go.” It was all part of his year-long experiment to test the limits of food that had passed its expiration date. In the video above, we interviewed Nash about his experiment and examined where expiration dates come from and what they really mean.
It turns out that the dates on our food labels do not have much to do with food safety. In many cases, expiration dates do not indicate when the food stops being safe to eat — rather, they tell you when the manufacturer thinks that product will stop looking and tasting its best. Some foods, such as deli meats, unpasteurized milk and cheese, and prepared foods such as potato salad that you do not reheat, probably should be tossed after their use-by dates for safety reasons.
Tossing out a perfectly edible cup of yogurt every once in a while does not seem that bad. But it adds up. According to a survey by the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and the National Consumers League, 84 percent of consumers at least occasionally throw out food because it is close to or past its package date, and over one third (37 percent) say they always or usually do so.
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Cheese is a favorite. You aged it longer and it’s half price? OK.
Some food tells you when it’s time to go even without an expiration date. That trout in the garbage bin in the garage waiting for tomorrow’s pickup was fairly screaming “It’s time for me to GO!” last weekend.
My Japanese daughter-in-law would go shopping for sushi (this was in Yokohama) right before the stores close to get sushi at half price.
Same here. I'll frequently open the fridge and yell "Hey, what happened to all my food? That was my dinner for tonight, tomorrow and the next day." Happens all the time. 35 years of marriage hasn't changed that one bit.
Thank God for respirators........
“I was sick from both ends for the next 3 days.”
The key is to whistle. If it comes over submissively, go ahead and eat. If it snarls in defiance...shoot, shovel and shut up.
Salmonella contamination doesn’t happen in the grocery store. It happens in the lettuce field when Jose’ didn’t wash his hands after his trip to the Baño.
It’s the Venezuelan diet, minus the garbage truck.
-PJ
They’re so full of preservatives you won’t need to be embalmed.
“Heck, we used to eat C-rations well over 20 years old.”
No, stinky.
I was 5 years old at the time, so I guess I miss-remembered the year slightly.
I have a question for veterans.
As mentioned earlier I once had 12 cases of MREs. One day while I was camping in my Parents cabin, I brought one into their home and asked Daddy if he knew what it was. He just glanced at it and said “rations”.
Now he was a combat veteran of WWII but I can’t believe their rations looked like MREs. Or did they?
How would you know when buttermilk has gone bad?
“If there is no noticeable vacuum release when you open the can or jar then forget it!”
Bingo... that is a good rule.
I keep meat in a small fridge. I try to keep it between 32° and 34°.
For ground beef, I remove it from the package, wrap it in a couple of paper towels to dry it off a bit, then into a covered glass storage container. Four days is easy.
Steaks and roasts are good for a couple weeks without freezing.
I revived a cheap rib eye I got on sale and let it go too long. The fat started to get a little slippery, a little funky, so I stuck it under cold running water and scrubbed it with a dish cleaner brush. No smell or slime when I got done. I cubed it up and fried it for fajitas. It was great.
U.S. military ration cases have been marked with a black crescent logo since WWI.
Expired sour cream is......sour?
I remember a Houston Astro from the 80’s, forgot his name but he asked how do you know when sour cream is expired?...I throw it away when that bluish fuzz shows up on it.....I mean, why before that time?
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