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Related: About this forum9 Foods You Might Be Throwing Away Too Soon
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/06/11/spoiled-foodYou get home from a long day at work when the sad realization hits you: You havent been grocery shopping in weeks.
Stomach rumbling, you begin the all-too-familiar ritual of rifling through the fridge and pantry, looking for any combination of grains, meats, and/or vegetables that could pass for a reasonable meal.
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Behind a forever-unopened, industrial-size box of raisins, you find a plastic parcel of dried spaghetti. Its a start.
Then you remember that the little glint of red youve been seeing in the farthest corner of your fridge for the past three weeks was once a freshly popped jar of marinara sauce.
Thats the golden ticketit would turn your sad bowl of noodles into a full-fledged, respectable meal. But the sauce is already a week past its freshest by date, and after wrestling off the cap you notice some blue-black, fuzzy spots of mold on the rim of the jar.
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9 Foods You Might Be Throwing Away Too Soon (Original Post)
eridani
Jun 2015
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. Actually, I just learned I might be eating my cheese too old...
Since no matter the type of cheese, if it seems to be going, I merely scrape whatever's growing on the outside off.
But it's a bit mind blowing that they say peanut butter can 'last forever' unopened. I guess if you're going to stock a doomsday shelter, peanut butter would be the food stock of choice.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. I always just scrape the cheese too.
Never had a problem.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. I strictly go by smell and taste.
If the mold can be removed and it smells and tastes ok, it's good to eat.