I bought a three pound package of organic ground beef at Costco. It's
actually three, one pound packages together. I buy this all the time and
we've had no problems with it. Coscto has had beef recalls but AFAIK, never
this kind.

I also had most of a bag of red potatoes that I bought at Costco. Baby
ones. They were sprouting. So I trimmed some and filled my crockpot with
them. Threw the rest away. Angela and I ate some for dinner with various
meat and veg. We didn't eat the same things. Anyway... I had some left
over so I decided to make an adaptation of a Southwestern style hash recipe
that I got from the beef council.

The recipe calls for ground beef, O'Brian potatoes (hash browns with peppers
and onions) and salsa. The other difference is that I used the previously
crockpot roasted potatoes. So they didn't get crispy. And the stuff didn't
taste the same. Had a roasted flavor. Not entirely bad, but not something
I ever want to make again.

Well, we ate it and both of us got sick to our stomachs. I thought it was a
fluke. With my gastroparesis, I tend to get sick easily.

Then tonight we ate the rest of it. Both of us are sick again. Do you
think I could have gotten bad beef? How would I know? The expiration date
is Sept. 29. It looks and smells fine. The only other thing I can think of
is the salsa. I had part of a jar in fridge. It was left from when Angela
made dinner for me. Can't remember how long that has been but a couple of
weeks at least. I used peppers from the salad bar. The same ones that went
into the pasta salad. I did feel sick after eating that, but she didn't.
And an organic yellow onion. The onion had no signs of mildew and looked
just fine. The onions that had been in the bin had gone bad, but I did
clean the bin out well before I put new onions in. It's a wooden beef.

Someone is telling me to be safe and throw out the rest of the beef. Do you
think I should?