i rotated the food so i kept spoilage to a minium, which i started after
finding several things well out of date, now mind you, being in food
service, i know that sell by and use by stuff is legal stuf to protect the
producers, best to use your nose to determine safety...

I know i already miss extra portions frozen, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>>i used to habitually keep about six months of food between the freezer and
>>the cubards... when the house burnt it set me to rethinking a lot of
>>things, and this is one of them, after a while i suspect i will have sale
>>shopped myself back into a decent amount of food, but without a seperate
>>freezer it won't be as much.
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> Thanks! I guess I am not as good at cleaning out the cupboards as I
> intend to be. I just had to throw out a bunch. Somehow a box of cereal
> was lurking in there. It was Cinnamon Life which I bought for my husband
> but he no longer eats. I really thought I had gotten all of that cereal
> out of there. I no longer buy him any cereal because he won't eat it.
> There was less than a handful of cereal left in the box.
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> There was also a pouch of chicken that expired in July and a small pouch
> of instant mashed potatoes that expired some time last year. Some weird
> rice bowl that I don't remember buying and a few pouches of cooked rice.
> A bag of Jasmine rice that expired in 2010 and a bag of brown rice with no
> date on it but it smelled really funky so I tossed it. Also several bags
> and boxes of gluten free pasta. Two of the boxes were purchased at Big
> Lots this fall. I think they were very close to expiring when I bought
> them and I didn't notice.
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> It could have been worse. It has been worse.
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> But now we have to make an effort to eat more pasta at least for a little
> while. We really haven't been eating much of it because Angela has to cut
> back on the carbs. But I have the kind of pasta that I use for pasta
> salad and it will expire in April. So I am making pasta salad this coming
> week. It's not overly high in carbs because the way I make it is mostly
> vegetables with just a little pasta.
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