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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you eat the following?

Jars of tomato/alfredo sauce marked with exploration dates in 2023? What about earlier in 2024?

Baking mixes that say best by sometime in 2023?

Meat (including ground beef) that has been frozen for at least 18 months?

One says no to all. One says frozen meat is fine indefinitely and unopened jarred/canned/boxed goods are good for a long time after the marked date. [/quote]

[b]I would eat all of this. [/b] It’s all safe and the dropoff in flavor will be minimal.

I start thinking no when something is several years out of date.  Sometimes I know it is fine still anyway, like canned jams and jellies.

Tossing perfectly good food because you can’t be bothered to rotate your freezer is such a waste.

Also, in most of history humans had to preserve food from one harvest to the next.  Eating year old food was normal.  Plus you always wanted to keep extra in case a harvest failed so you wouldn’t starve.[/quote]

Same. [/quote]

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