Say you have a jar of salsa that’s been in your cabinet for say, several years…you’re about to toss it but give it one last try and, you get it open. It smells normal. Do you still close it back up and throw it away, or get out the tortilla chips, throw caution to the winds ?
Update: I poured it out, jar went into the recycling.
@bijouxbroussard That's good. Mine probably would be, though. Your post reminded me of an opened bag of Fritos "flavor twists" in my pantry, that I thought I'd bought maybe last year. The best by date is May 2019. I did go ahead and discard those...without even tasting one. 😅
Just made ceviche with scallops, shrimp, and crab. Has onion, avocado, cilantro, jalapeño pepper, and tomato, lime and lemon juice. How long will it last? Have about three servings left.
I know personally someone who ended up in the hospital after having a similar thought with an egg that had expired a few months before and however eventually decided to eat it almost raw in carbonara 🙆♂️
Yeah, I've heard we Westerners might waste about a quarter of our food - and so much else... "fast" fashions, excessive packaging, luxuries and conveniences we don't use or get bored with... like spoilt kids. We have charities over here that collect the almost out of date foods from Over here, supermarkets give their almost out of date foods to the soup kitchens.
Three cheers for you recycling. We do too.
Ari's all for tasting if it smells okay. I wait for his reaction. My nose is a lot more sensitive so sometimes I reject things he find fine.
If our food goes off before we eat it, I give it to the birds, worm farm or compost heap. One way or another, the waste fertilises our next bed of veggies.
Is it 2am ? Am i righteously drunk And do i have copious amounts of cheese to smother it with ?🤔
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It won't be bad, it won't kill you, but some bbf dates also mean "loses flavour, isn't as good, not what you'd like to expect from our product" it's not gonna hurt but possibly won't be great if included in a recipe.
