"Are you the ones leaveing the muffing pieces behind our shelter? I know what you thought. They don't have homes, they don't have jobs, what do they need the top of a muffin for? They're lucky to get the stumps."
Posted on 01/27/2014 8:17:08 AM PST by traderrob6
The former president of grocery store chain Trader Joe's is hoping to make healthy food more accessible to the working poor by opening a store and restaurant that sells expired food, according to Fox News.
Doug Rauch's endeavor is called The Daily Table and will open in Dorchester, Mass. come May.
The food sold and prepared at the store will only be items that are deemed unsellable by other grocery stores. That includes items that are past their sell by date and items in damaged packaging, the TV station reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Don’t mock too loudly. It’s how most of our grocery money is spent, looking for the red manager’s special sticker on bent cans, expired stuff. It saves a ton.
The major problem is the loss of flavor.
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That is why ‘we’ invented salt, pepper, garlic salt, garlic pepper etc...
Used to figure that with a bottle of hot sauce and a person being hungry enough, horse apples may be edible...<: <:
Hot Sauce + anything - edible...
Excellent idea. I don’t think this store will be for the poor only. I will shop at this store if open in my town (but don’t think so). I bet you will see more working middle class families at this store than the poor.
My W-M has fresh and canned turnip, collard and spinach.
I am still eating canned tuna from February, 2003 (Wal-mart store brand) and cake mixes and pasta that passed their dates years ago.
Most of the dating is not important, for instance your cake mix will be fine for a while after it’s best by date, but if it is a few years past, then it won’t rise properly, it is still OK to eat, so I try to not let them go more than a year or so past it’s date.
Canned foods last a long time, I have eaten 25 year old canned cabbage, some things don’t do well, for instance canned foods with pasta in them like chicken noodle soup or ravioli should be eaten within a year of it’s best by date.
I just checked the dates on my last incredible buy on canned tomatoes, they expired in March, 2009, which means I will now be shopping for a another super deal to restock.
Good to hear, I have some low dose aspirin that's about a year and a half past "expiration". I take one a day, wife says throw them away. I'm much too parsimonious to do that.
There is a chain in PA and VA that specialize in this in huge quantities from warehouses. Most is near, but prior to use by dates. They get stuff by the pallet load. Prices are awesome.
http://www.sharpshopper.net/index.html
Wow, my allergist told me it’s good for at least a year past the expiration date.
"Are you the ones leaveing the muffing pieces behind our shelter? I know what you thought. They don't have homes, they don't have jobs, what do they need the top of a muffin for? They're lucky to get the stumps."
As you can see in post 65, I know about canned goods and shelf life, but I also buy survival foods.
Freeze dried foods, well canned for maximum shelf life, is a lot better than setting a can of supermarket green beans on the shelf for 25 years and counting on it.
Wonder if he’ll sell muffin stumps too?
I’d probably go with cold as heat can destroy vitamins.
Stupid little boogs.
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There are a few different versions of the date in question. There is "use by", "best by", and "sell by", all set by the manufacturer. The first two are suggestions to the consumer, the last one is an instruction to the retailer.
The only date that the FDA sets and cares about is for baby formula and maybe some baby food.
NOT ALL OF DORCHESTER IS OVERRUN BY THE EBT CROWD, FOOL!!!
My man. One of the great Christmas presents I have given was some Webvan grocery bins. They just showed up at Grocery Outlet one fine day after Webvan’s bankruptcy. I have probably a dozen of them up in the attic with seasonal clothing.
I glanced too quickly at your post and thought that "Cheap Yankee B@stard" was the name of the store, and thought, man that is a great name for that kind of place. Doh!
Are you and Joe brothers?
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