Bachelor’s Guide to Knowing When Your Food is Expi

[jaco]

Bachelor’s Guide to Knowing When Your Food is Expired


Freezer Foods:
Ice Cream – if you can’t tell the difference between your ice cream and ice cubes, it’s time to throw BOTH out.

Frozen Foods – Frozen foods that have become an integral part of the defrosting problem in your freezer compartment will probably be spoiled (or wrecked anyway) by the time you pry them out with a kitchen knife.

In the Fridge:
Eggs – when something starts pecking it’s way out of the shell, the egg is probably past it’s prime.

Dairy Products – Milk is spoiled when it starts to look like yoghurt. Yoghurt is spoiled when it starts to look like cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is spoiled when starts to look like regular cheese. Regular cheese is nothing but spoiled milk anyway – if you can dig down and still find something non-green, bon appetite!

Meat – if opening the refrigerator door causes stray animals from a three block radius to congregate outside your house, toss the meat.

Unmarked items – you know it’s well beyond prime when you’re tempted to discard the Tupperware along with the food.

[thallow]

speaking of dodgy foods; in my student days many years ago when I was flat broke (& living with 3 female housemates which did not help the issue) we never had any milk - I once tried cereal with water......uggghh it was truly the most awful thing I have ever tasted!

[mrgrimsdale]

I used to know a welsh shepherd who made his tea with tinned condensed milk. He said it kept well after opening, but sometimes a tin would get left behind in a shearing shed or something. If it was so old that it was dry or mouldy on the surface - you just opened the other end of the tin!

cheers
Jacob