Posted on 07/22/2022 11:05:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
My tuna doesn’t taste as good as it used to.
Well, you really ARE a packaging guy!
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It might make you eat something you would find you would have rather not have.
I keep some of both on hand but I would have to be desperate to use them in anything but baked goods.
Food and medicine expirations dates stamped on product containers are based on lawyerly advice towards being conservative in the maximum.
The DOD, using its stores of medicines as well as the inventory of medicines in the VA system, analyzed thousands of batches of medicines, reviewing findings indicating the level of efficacy of the pills, and found most were still efficatious, even with expirations dates many years past.
Food, unlike most medicines, is “live” material and its expiration dates are trickier.
I use my own sight and smell test and an item has to pass both. Even then, occasionally I have decided to use up some leftover that I should have tossed out. But there is always peptobismol LOL.
I once bought a jug of white vinegar with an expiration date.
If only there were something they could put in the bottle to preserve it.
I would not worry if it were glass.
Plastic - I would use it or transfer to glass.
Augason Farms doesn’t seem to be a very good survivalist food company according to many reviews saying that the food is put into the buckets without any other bags or oxygen absorbers, just rice or whatever put into a (hopefully) sealed bucket.
Something Augason does that I find disturbing is selling buckets of long term storage foods advertised as good for up to 30 years, but the bucket will include a mix of 10 year and 30 year foods.
Let’s see. If I’m selling food, I have motivation to print a “use by” date on the product that is very conservative.
- the sooner consumers throw out my product, the more I will sell
- I can reduce the risk of someone suing me because they claim they got sick eating the food before its “use by” date
If “use by” date isn’t regulated, I’d would guess that manufacturers’ “use by” dates are much sooner than reality.
I’ve found that 1 TBS. of Kale per Pound of bacon is an acceptable ratio.
Oops, typo. That’s 1 Tsp. of Kale.
My wife is an organizer. I do the shopping and freezer wrapping but she organizes. We have a printed spreadsheet in the kitchen. What I bring home I wrap, date and then enter on the spreadsheet. We have two upright freezers. The "meat" freezer has 4 shelves - one for each quarter of the year. The food is rotated by date so we generally use within a 6-9 month period. But there is always room if I find a really good meat sale.
Generally, we look at the spreadsheet every couple of days and take out the oldest food for the next several meals. It is remarkably efficient. And very little meat gets bought at full price.
Freezer #1 paid for itself years ago. The new, second freezer is already pulling its weight in the food savings department. I bought 12 one pound packs of angus ground chuck this week at $3 off (half price). That's $36 savings right there.
As an aside... I love fermenting my vegetables. Especially super sour dill cucumbers. The longest batch I have done is two years. Yum.
As for canned food and mres... I have eaten 10 year old of each. Mostly odd ball canned vegetables. Toss them in a pot of chili and they’re good to go.
If you boil water for pasta you can freeze the boiled water to use later. It lasts indefinitely...
#61 My tuna doesn’t taste as good as it used to.
That is because it has less dolphin in it then the old days : )
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