Do you throw away food after its expiration date? Canned food? Dry Goods? What if it's been frozen? Do you smell it/check it first, or do you just toss it after the date on the package?
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I donate it and take it off on my taxes. It is also good for dogs.
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I Throw it away. Once I Opened an old tub of cream cheese and it was BLUE!!!! Now I never eat ANYTHING past the expiration date. Trust Me.
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I check it. Food is too expensive to just chunk. By the way, how the heck do you get food to last past the expiration date? I barely get anything I buy to last a week...
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Does God just abandon and throw us away after we done sins? Answer is not. Our Lovely Father prepares a Way for us, that is Jesus. Through Him our sins are cleaned. God still loves and keeps us as long as we trust in Him. So don't just throw away the friends u don't like just because he/she offends u. Don't throw away food also, we can use it as fertilizer for plants.
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. Canned food has a shelf life of at least two years from the date of processing. Canned food retains its safety and nutritional value well beyond two years, but it may have some variation in quality, such as a change of color and texture. Canning is a high-heat process that renders the food commercially sterile. Food safety is not an issue in products kept on the shelf or in the pantry for long periods of time. In fact, canned food has an almost indefinite shelf life at moderate temperatures (75° Fahrenheit and below). Canned food as old as 100 years has been found in sunken ships and it is still microbiologically safe! We don't recommend keeping canned food for 100 years, but if the can is intact, it is edible. Rust or dents do not affect the contents of the can as long as the can does not leak. If the can is leaking, however, or if the ends are bulged, the food should not be used.
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No, I donate them to the Rapture Ready Project. They're collecting all those goodies cause, come the Rapture, the expiration dates won't matter
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Not canned food. THere just has to be an expiration date on it because of manufacturing issues. But I always throw away anything that has been opened. I always check salad dressings or cottage cheese/cream cheese. Anything that is remotely dairy is checked. Especially when I go to my Granny's house. Ew. I've found some science experiments in her fridge.
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Its not true that it never goes bad but if frozen things can last a really long time. Check out this link from the FDA, (Food and Drug Administration) it has storage periods on how long things last when stored in a refridgerator and stored in a freezer. hope this helps... http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/502_food.html#facts
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I usually just throw it away because most of the time, you can see that it is no good anymore.
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canned food takes ages to go off, and frozen food adds about a month to the expiration date, but with dairy I'd throw it out straight away. I made a really nice homemade apple pie and was really proud then poured cream on top to serve and it was rank and within the expiration date, ruinined my pie, now I always check first.
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Canned Food: Depends on how it looks or smells after opened. Dairy Products: Always throw it away if it is past the expiration date. Frozen Items: Depends on if it has freezer burn or not.
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No. I give it to the homeless. No sense in wasting good food just because it's expired
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If it's frozen, I will use it but if it's canned or dry and expired I throw it away.
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