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Default Dating Expiration of Refrigerated Foods

On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:55:51 -0400, Doris Night
> wrote:

>On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:00:32 -0400, William > wrote:
>
>>What is your method of rotating foods including leftovers into the
>>refrigerator and out to be eaten or dumped into the garbage?
>>
>>William

>
>I keep a black marker in my kitchen drawer, and whenever I open
>something and only use part of it, like a box of chicken stock or a
>jar of pasata, I write the day I opened it on the top of the
>container. Boxed stock is supposed to be used within 2 weeks of
>opening, so this way you don't have to worry about remembering when is
>has to be used.
>
>Doris

I do that too for the kinds of things you mentioned.
Janet US