Posted on 07/22/2022 11:05:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
“JUST PUT THE KALE IN A POT FULL OF TURNIP GREENS, COLLARDS OR MUSTARD GREENS AND IT ILL BE FINE..........................”
As long as you don’t forget the side of Fatback.
I don’t call them “date labels”. I call them “lawyer dates”.
Rush had Undeniable Truths of Life, and I have a similar list.
Just after “Never listen to Larry Mondello”, comes, “If there’s something STUPID going on, there’s a lawyer or a tax man involved somewhere.” (Congressmen/Senators are BOTH.)
Well pretty much anything organic; as for pasta, if it’s gray you toss it.
Well, except for mushrooms.
Still waiting on my first ripe tomato!
Grow your own (veggies and meat critters) whenever you can. :)
P.S. Shop the perimeter of your grocery store.
Stay out of the middle aisles where the FrankenFoods live...forever!
Eat as close to the DIRT as you can, Listeria be d@mned! ;)
Shop local. Love Your Farmers! :)
Hmmm, yeah. So how do you know?
“If the can is not puffy it is safe to eat”
Had a can of tomatoes explode in my pantry once. What a mess.
Expiration dates on tomato base can goods is the only one I take seriously.
I use local farms as much as possible (and farm eggs are available year round). Farmer markets tend to be overpriced, we go directly to the farm stands at the farms themselves.
>>frozen eggs
Absolutely agree. When the lockdown started, I froze eggs and milk. Total disaster. Wouldn’t touch any of them after trying the first defrost.
When storing foods long term, they should have less than 10% moisture. Storing high moisture or high fat foods long term is a good way to get seriously poisoned.
Here are some of the foods I store in canning jars and/or mylar bags - both with oxygen absorbers and desiccants:
*dried pasta
*dehydrated potato slices (cheap hint: buy the house brand of scalloped potatoes , toss the cheese sauce packet, and store in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers - same as the long term ones you buy online but a LOT cheaper)
*instant mashed potato flakes (no fat or flavoring added!)
*dried beans
*white rice
Low acid canned stuff lasts years longer than the “best buy” date.
That’s goes without saying!..................
That would be the case for any acidic food.
The acid can eat away at the can lining and then the can. It’s called detinning and the metallic taste is terrible. I actually encountered some maple syrup that did that. Now when we buy maple syrup, we get a gallon (best price option) and I heat it up to boiling and then can it into pint canning jars and seal it with hot lids then just let it cool. I don’t even process is as the sugar content of the syrup means the temperature is plenty hot enough.
The maple syrup keep indefinitely that way and has never crystalized on me.
Home canning in glass canning jars takes care of that problem.
BTTT!!!!
I’m not looking at anything but my cell phone. Does that mean nothing else exists? Really?
Quantum mechanics must have a few loose screws.
Yes (its the PH), and heat any old food well.
That is so pre-Great Reset of you!
So how nutritious is it one day before the "use by" date? 100%? 50%? 1%?
Mark
A product I was working on was originally supplied in a vial of water. After about a year it was mush.
So I reworked the entire process with a new molding process, lyophilization and foil barrier pouch. We get a 4 year expiration date on it.
Yes, you have to have the aluminized film because it is an absolute barrier to moisture.
I packaging engineering we had to calculate the amount of time a carbonated beverage would last in a plastic bottle before going flat. It was only a few months. In a can it lasts years.
Most of it is common sense and there are multiple sites explaining best by etc etc.. Touch, smell and instinct are your best friends.
I totally clean out my freezer in by fall, eating every last bit....and start again.
You can freeze just about everything. My favorite is Chicken French....imagine saying ahhhh think I'll have Chicken French for lunch...and 10 minutes later...to die for.
Another tip...I cut lemons into wedges and freeze...so nice to always have on hand.
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