Eh, is a part of life. No need to stress this hard over it.
I’m worried that the baby thinks people can’t change.
guess i’m worse. i buy eggs and sometimes they spoil before i can get around to using them. lost almost 18 so far this year
Dude eggs are good like forever past the date. Just put them in water. If they float, toss them, otherwise they are fine. I’ve eaten them like a month after the date.
thats what i do to test them. lots of floaters
what movie is this?
It’s the episode of Lassie where Martha falls into the cesspit
People have said the title, but fun fact those are real skeletons not prop replicas
Poltergeist.
I thought “Poltergeist” but I may be wrong.
Poltergeist, maybe…
I been so fucking strategic with my food this year that for the 1st time in my life the freezer food gets eaten and I have to go shopping cause we are eating everything in the fridge. I buy small eat everything and repeat and I gotta say it’s a good feeling.
Is it possible to learn such power? Lmao congrats, I’ve always been bad about this.
- I have eaten
- the plums
- that were in
- the icebox
- and which
- you were probably
- saving
- for breakfast
- Forgive me
- they were delicious
- so sweet
- and so cold
(This Is Just To Say, William Carlos Williams)
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in your regionSo succinct, so poetic.
oops! Sorry. It’s a recent (well, compared to the original) parody/homage/whatever of the poem:
- This is just to say
- I have eaten
- the rich
- that were at
- the golf club
- and which
- you were probably
- saving
- for class war
- Forgive me
- they were delicious
- so white
- and so old
It was posted on Twitter by “your friend Helen” (@hels) many years back. I assume they were the author but I really don’t know.
Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg…“I used to be a real piece of shit. I still am, but I used to be too.” /s
yup. here, too.
first thing in my head reading the post title was ‘…still am, but i used to be, too’
Don’t think I have ever really had this problem. I just eat the stuff I buy because it would be a waste of money not to.
Also best before dates are just a suggestion.
I’ll eat leftovers a week later and people act like I’m eating a baby. Sniff test motherfuckers, heard of it? People waste so much food it infuriates me.
People have different sensitivity to smells; I wouldn’t trust my nose to detect when something starts to spoil, and when it completely went awry I am able to see it anyway.
Most things I eat don’t even need a sniff test. You can see and feel veg is going off before you can smell it and its safe to eat for longer than I am willing to eat it. Its only once it starts going mouldy or slimy that its unsafe.
Soy sauce, honey, salt, dried herbs are essentially never going off. Worst with herbs is reduced flavour, but I grow my own. Been meaning to make a smoked salt and herb mix sometime. Got to actually smoke some salt though.
I love how my local grocery stores sell steaks at a deep discount when they’re a day or two from expiring. Like, 75% off for aged beef? OK, if you insist.
I miss when heavy discounts like that were common. Much harder to find now. They usually manage to sell it off at much lower discounts instead.
I found a 5 pound slab of skirt steak for about $6 a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was hallucinating.
Before or after eating the expired beef?
I don’t worry about the dates, but sometimes it’s mouldy or smells rotten and I throw it out at that point.
People can change.
Yeah, but you won’t. Plum genocidist.
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I bought muscadine grapes last week. Delicious, like plums and grapes in one.
That’s why we need to normalize food sharing and foster the community
Start a worm farm. Every left over is FEED MY GAGH
I helped my parents clean out the refrigerator a couple years ago. I found the usual expired jams and jellies and other pickled things that were about 2 to 3 years overdue. But when I went into the freezer the oldest date I found was something that was hovering on 20 years past due. It’s amazing how people neglect their icebox.
Someone else would have bought these plums and treated them right.
This is why I like living close to a grocery store. I make lots of small trips instead of a big one.
Ew, leaving the house multiple times a week?
I shop once a week, and get everything I need for the week. One trip, twenty minutes in and out. No processed packaged foods, mostly fresh and frozen vegetables, fruit, and organic chicken (no antibiotics). Zero food waste, because even fresh vegetables will survive a week in the fridge. On the last day before shopping day, my fridge is virtually empty.
I don’t like shopping, so I made it as efficient as I could.
Yeah that works. Especially because you could do it once a week at a farmer’s market and get the really good stuff. I was doing that for a while.
This is the way. I just buy what I need every day. Barely ever waste something
when i rode transit every day to work, that’s exactly what i used to do. i’d just stop on the way home, then pick up the next bus going my way.
That’s what my parents did growing up. They didn’t have a refrigerator and when they got one, it was super small.
