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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>
>> Ken wrote:
>>> What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
>>> refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?
>>>
>>> Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared
>>> last Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a
>>> meatloaf takes a while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine
>>> but... The feral cats outside enjoyed it anyhow.
>>>
>>> How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>

>> My hard and fast rule is that if it has green fuzz growing on it and
>> it wasn't originally green toss it.

>
> Also, if anything on it moves.


Yep Anything trotting around my fridge wearing a green fur coat would get
the heave ho!!