PEOPLE MAY BE THROWING OUT GOOD FOOD AND LOSING MONEY BECAUSE OF THE DATE ON THE PACKAGE.
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) –When you’re shopping for groceries do you know the difference between sell by, best by, expires by, and use by dates? If you don’t you’re probably throwing away a lot of good food and money.
In an experiment, Action News performed we saw if people could tell the difference between a normal egg and one that was three months old.
Jessica Medina, from the Fresno State Food Security Project, argues most old food is perfectly edible. MORE
What business is it of the government when I throw out food!!! And no kidding, obviously a bag of expired by a month almonds aren’t going to kill me but they also taste like crap.
For years now, since Moochelle has gotten her big paws into school lunches, we’ve been fed lines by the government such as eating spoiled food isn’t bad, lambasting people for not wanting to eat bruised and rotting fruit and vegetables, and liberal cities actually monitoring garbage for thrown out food… WTF is wrong with these people that they need to worry about what I do with food I pay for! F-Off already.
Well, no, month old almonds aren’t going to taste bad. Pick a better example.
Being a thrifty type, I ignore all these “use by” dates. I look at, is the food still safe and usable, or will it make me ill? Does it pass a smell and finger-touch-to-tip-of-tongue taste test?
Besides, I need to eat some “questionable” food once in awhile, to keep my immune system up.
Is milk still ok if it looks like cottage cheese?
Asking for a friend.
Okay, but I’m pretty sure if a can of pumpkin says use by jan 2014 it needs to be tossed.
(And like, I keep my bread way too long, when it turns blue, only THEN DO I throw it out.)
There goes my dumpster diving career.
Some people check to see if the egg floats in water, if so it’s no good. An easier way is to shake it next to your ear. If you hear it sloshing around inside the shell it’s either going bad (in which case it’s still good for scrambling or hard boiling) or gone bad (in which case it will let out a smell when cracked).
The best rule to follow, “if in doubt, throw it out.”
I’ve gone 2 years without eating eggs from the store – they come right out of the backyard coop. Can’t be fresher. Works great in trade with neighbors also.
@Sterling probably fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n18tvR99qEM
I throw out my water after the ‘use by’ date.
Not really.
Sterling Archer, you’re friends with Joey Biden?
LOL.
gfy, not really but we eat crayons and sniff glue together once in a while
Just another example of the unintended consequences of the federal bureaucracy and the fact that if the government told people to eat shit some would.
Canned food lasts indefinitely. It’s been proven time and time again.
When I toss out canned/packaged food that is beyond its expiration date, I know that it is prolly still fine to eat. If we were in the zombie apocalypse, I would eat expired food. But, since we aren’t in the zombie apocalypse, into the trash it goes.
Has anyone checked the Expiration Dates on the Obamas?
They should have been tossed in the trash years ago. Serendipity, Full Circle, and all that.
As long as the can isn’t swollen, IMHO it’s good to eat. I don’t eat store eggs unless I want them hard boiled, my Americana hen eggs are a bitch to peel when boiled. Beef is good in the freezer until it gets freezer burn, but I don’t eat much beef these days, I got me an elk tag to be used in Oct.
Anyone concerned with eating spoiled or contaminated food should NEVER eat at restaurants.
food might kill ya … but no food will definitely kill ya
These eggs from Easter. They’re still good, right?
I recently ate a can of soup from 2008 or so, and it tasted kind “musty.”
So there may be something to that sale date …
izlamo delenda est …
A few years ago I found a box of the original Atkins low-carb bars from the early 2000s encrusted in ice and forgotten in the bottom of a chest freezer. I thawed them and I ate them and they were fine.
Would I have done that with a steak from the same era? No, only because it would be dessicated into a block of dust. But the principle still applies. Old =/= bad, necessarily.
I think it may have been Bob Saget who told a story that when he was a baby his mother couldn’t lactate, so he was actually nursed by his grandmother. He said that it had no ill effects for him and he grew up perfectly normal, other than a preference for milk that was past its expiry date.
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@ chuffedbeyondwords
If you throw your blue bread out, you’re wasting a lot of good penicillin and just making the junk yard dogs well. 🙂
Canned food, if originally packed in sanitary conditions, is edible three or four years beyond the “Expiration Date.” It’s safe to eat, but the nutritional value diminishes over time. When the SHTF, you won’t starve eating expired canned goods, but I recommend you stock up on some good multi-vitamins to boost nourishment.
Canned soup is so high in salt, you could probably go as much as five years beyond the Exp Date.
NEVER ever eat the contents of a can that is bulging. Toss it out without opening it.
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