LEFSElover
Executive Chef
My kids are new fangled nutjobs.
They swear that if a food product [or a medicine product] says a certain date and it's passed, it's used up and needs to be tossed.
They think I'm the oddest/weirdest person ever.
If I bring something home from the store and the date is close, they won't have a thing to do with it. If I have cold meds in the medicine cabinet, they won't use it if it expired last week [and tell me to toss it].
My personal opinion is that this is a way for companys to make more money off their stuff. You'll see the date and chuck it [if it's close to expiration] or won't use [then] you'll buy more.
My gonna be DIL tossed a huge unopened bag of beef jerky because the date was up. What'd it cost? Like 10 bucks? She also, same day, tossed out a big unopened plastic container box of those baby greens from the market for same reason. Our oldest son, laughed out loud when he was dyin on the vine here [at our house with the worlds worst cold] and I'd pulled out all my stops of cold meds for him to use and try to make him feel better. He said, "You can't be serious mom, do you really expect me to take this stuff? It's expired and out of date." His dad then went to the store to buy all new stuff and when I got home from work, all old meds were in the trash, they'd gone through it all, all 4 bathroom medicine cabinets. His wife is the nurse and has lead him down this path but still....................
Anyone agree or am I the dimwit here? Oh please do chime in, this just came up AGAIN this morning.
Do you automatically dump stuff or do you eat the yogurt even if it expired last week?
They swear that if a food product [or a medicine product] says a certain date and it's passed, it's used up and needs to be tossed.
They think I'm the oddest/weirdest person ever.
If I bring something home from the store and the date is close, they won't have a thing to do with it. If I have cold meds in the medicine cabinet, they won't use it if it expired last week [and tell me to toss it].
My personal opinion is that this is a way for companys to make more money off their stuff. You'll see the date and chuck it [if it's close to expiration] or won't use [then] you'll buy more.
My gonna be DIL tossed a huge unopened bag of beef jerky because the date was up. What'd it cost? Like 10 bucks? She also, same day, tossed out a big unopened plastic container box of those baby greens from the market for same reason. Our oldest son, laughed out loud when he was dyin on the vine here [at our house with the worlds worst cold] and I'd pulled out all my stops of cold meds for him to use and try to make him feel better. He said, "You can't be serious mom, do you really expect me to take this stuff? It's expired and out of date." His dad then went to the store to buy all new stuff and when I got home from work, all old meds were in the trash, they'd gone through it all, all 4 bathroom medicine cabinets. His wife is the nurse and has lead him down this path but still....................
Anyone agree or am I the dimwit here? Oh please do chime in, this just came up AGAIN this morning.
Do you automatically dump stuff or do you eat the yogurt even if it expired last week?