something my mother taught me was that i should put the close dated things
on the counter in plain veiw so we will use them before others, it works to
some degree, i always clean out the freezer, or did anyway every six months
so i could defrost it, that kept it clean and food waste down, Lee
"Jacquie" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> At my parent's house it always seems to be chicken. My mom will buy it
>> or take it out of the freezer and then for one reason or another they
>> keep going out to eat instead of cooking the chicken. And then it is
>> expired and then she has to throw it away. That doesn't happen to me
>> with meat. If I have meat in such a situation, I will just cook it and
>> stick it in the freezer. If it is hamburger I may give it taco
>> seasoning. The meat then may or may not get eaten from my freezer, so
>> yeah, it may still get wasted. But we do try to eat it at some point.
>>
>> This week? It's pasta salad. I went through my cupboard where I keep
>> pasta, rice, instant mashed potatoes and some packets of cheese sauce
>> powder which I have never used. It is a small cupboard. I could have
>> sworn that I went through it at the start of school but in it was a box
>> of Life Cereal that I had bought for my husband. Expired in 2010. He no
>> longer eats cereal of any kind so I thought I had gotten rid of it all.
>> It was essentially an empty box with only crumbs left in it. I did have
>> to throw out a small amount of stuff which I could swear that I purchased
>> since the start of school. Perhaps it was close to being expired or
>> expired when I bought it. It did come from Big Lots. That was only
>> $2.00 worth of food so no great loss.
>>
>> But I do have some things that are going to expire in a few months. And
>> there was a box of quinoa pasta with no expiration date on it but I know
>> it is at least a year old because my health food store no longer sells it
>> that way. They buy it in bulk and package it up. I knew I needed to use
>> it so planned to make pasta salad for tonight and tomorrow night.
>>
>> But then Angela got sick. Started last week on Thu. I assumed it was
>> only a one day thing. She seemed better on Fri. and Sat. although she
>> said she did have a little of the big D on those days but apparently not
>> enough to bother to tell me.
>>
>> But Sunday? We had purchased a gluten free taco pizza from Garlic Jim's.
>> We sat there while they made it. Angela heard them talking about it and
>> was pleased that they told us they couldn't put the normal chips on there
>> because they weren't gluten free. She was happy that they were being so
>> careful with her food. But then about 2 hours after she ate it she got
>> the big D again and I do mean BIG! This lead me to believe that maybe it
>> wasn't really gluten free. Or it somehow got cross contaminated.
>> Because that is one of her symptoms when she eats wheat. She was
>> convinced that it was fine because she watched them make it and the crust
>> didn't look like a wheat crust. We have gotten pizza from them for my
>> husband so we know what it looks like.
>>
>> Monday and Tues. she was no better. She missed school. Took her to the
>> Walk In Clinic after I had my mammogram and that Dr. felt it was just
>> gastroenteritis because a lot of that has been going around in the
>> school.
>>
>> She got better but then late last night it struck again! She had to go
>> to school today. School has been all messed up what with them missing a
>> week of school due to snow. She missed a math test yesterday but can't
>> retake it till Fri. due to her math teacher being out for an emergency
>> type operation on a broken arm due to playing soccer. Oh joy! And she
>> had very important paperwork to turn in to her gym teacher about a
>> schedule change and also the makeup sheets of her physical activities for
>> the days she missed due to whooping cough. The end of the semester has
>> been changed due to the snow so all of this had to have been done by Thu.
>> Not sure about the math test but I guess that will all be sorted out.
>>
>> I did tell her if she had the big D at school to call me and I would come
>> get her. She only needed to make it through till lunch. Well...
>> Apparently she did have at school and didn't call me. Grrr... And now
>> she is very sick again. I may have to take her to the pediatrician.
>>
>> Anyway... I made her the pasta salad last night but don't dare give it
>> to her now because of all the veggies in it. And I am not so sure how
>> easily quinoa digests. I gave her turkey breast and plain rice and I
>> also bought more applesauce, some lactose free yogurt and bananas. The
>> Dr. was concerned about her BG but did say this was the best sort of diet
>> for her to eat. So now I have this big container of pasta salad that
>> probably won't get eaten. I didn't feel like eating it tonight. I need
>> to do my taxes so just bought myself a sandwich while I was at the store.
>> I am not too thrilled about sandwiches but I can eat it while I work.
>> And I really just didn't feel like eating pasta salad.
>>
>> There is a chance if she gets better she can eat some of it tomorrow and
>> I will eat it. But the rest is likely to go to waste. I am not sure how
>> long it will keep. Assuming she is going to dance on Friday, we will go
>> out to eat after and then grocery shopping. And Sat. we spend with my
>> parents who go out to eat. I suppose if it makes it till Sun. we could
>> eat the rest of it then. But I don't know if it will. At least I only
>> made 4 servings. I didn't put everything that I normally put in it
>> because that would just make too much. But it just seems like such a
>> waste of my time to make it all and then not have it get eaten. Plus the
>> cost of all the veggies that went into it. When I make this I use mostly
>> veggies and just a little pasta.
>>
>> So does this happen to you? I'm sure it would happen to everyone at some
>> time or other but... It seems to happen to us more times than I would
>> like. Perhaps because I am so careful to plan out our meals. I want to
>> make sure we have enough food for the week but not too much food. And
>> because it is fresh food it just doesn't keep.
>>
>>
> Yes, since there are only two of us in the house now, things expire before
> we have a chance to finish it..like bacon, eggs, some boxed items. I have
> a large freezer so the food in there keeps pretty well...but I still have
> times when I have to clean old food out of the freezer.
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