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Thread Number: 38964
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
Canned Goods Storage |
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Post# 413595 9/8/2019 at 22:02 (1,684 days old) by electrolux137  (Los Angeles) |
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 ~ Here was a good Sunday afternoon project. | ||
| Post# 413644 , Reply# 1 9/10/2019 at 00:38 (1,682 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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| Post# 413651 , Reply# 2 9/10/2019 at 08:30 (1,682 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 413877 , Reply# 5 9/16/2019 at 01:04 (1,676 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
I did the same, have on rolling racks in my basement, but only temporarily until I eat it all. I don't want two big shelves hogging space in my basement. My mother always over-buys food, and me I just buy food and snacks when I see it on sale or on clearance, and save it to go with my lunch or as a meal another day.
There is no danger in eating expired food, I eat 2-3 years expired food all the time because I do not make a hobby of wasting food. But always check canned goods because acidic foods can eat away the protective liner inside the can and put that metal into the food. Also just common sense if it looks discolored from normal or smells bad, don't risk it. You should have saved the expired cans, people collect old cans. I wish I would have thought of that when I purged the fridge in 2014 - there was old jars and stuff from Walmart's old Great Value design in the mid 2000's. I just have a few old cans from the early 2000's so far. Here's the racks, eventually working through eating the stuff or eating enough to file the rest away into the cabinets. I always take empty boxes I see on store shelves to assist in keeping the shelves organized and the food from falling off, as they have no backs or sides.
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| Post# 413878 , Reply# 6 9/16/2019 at 01:08 (1,676 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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| Post# 413922 , Reply# 8 9/16/2019 at 21:41 (1,676 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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| Post# 413930 , Reply# 9 9/17/2019 at 00:21 (1,675 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 414224 , Reply# 10 9/24/2019 at 09:24 (1,668 days old) by kirbyklekter (Concord,Ca.) | ||
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Huskyvacs, That's really impressive the way you've got those shelves stocked. I wasn't expecting that. For a split second I thought I was looking at the inside of a mom & pop corner market. Kudos! | ||
| Post# 414245 , Reply# 11 9/25/2019 at 10:44 (1,667 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
It amazes me how many people are under the mistaken impression that packaged food instantly goes toxic the day after the "expiration" date on the package, regardless of whether that date is labeled "Best by...", "Sell by...," or "Use by..." Seriously, I have known people who, if a product has a date of, say, September 2019 on it, would think nothing of eating it for dinner on Sept. 30, 2019, but would treat it as though it were poisonous the following morning.
That said, there are limits to everything. When my parents were moving to a retirement community in 2016, they were "eating down" their extremely overstocked pantry (Dad was a supply officer in the navy and still bought groceries in shipload quantities) and one night Mom fixed a salad and Dad pulled a mostly full bottle of blue cheese or ranch dressing that had expired in 2012 out of the refrigerator and dumped it on his salad. He then got mad with Mom and me for finding an unopened, in-date bottle dressing and using that instead. I'm sorry, but the shit was four years out of date, contained dairy and had been open God knows how long. There was no way I was going to touch it. As part of the moving process, my sister rented a construction dumpster and had it put in the driveway to dispose of stuff they weren't taking with them and that nobody else wanted. Dad about had a conniption when he came home one day and my mom and aunt had dumped all manner of expired cans, boxes of cereal, etc. into there. While the move didn't kill him, I don't think he ever recovered from the stress of it. | ||
| Post# 414479 , Reply# 12 9/30/2019 at 22:44 (1,662 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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Les, if you have a Menards in your area you can find the racks there, common metal utility racks. About 50 other china-pride companies make them, so you might find something similar on Amazon. They had the wheels there too (shelves never came with wheels), and they cost like $14 for the set, but they are worth it. Moving these heavily loaded shelves is like butter because of the large wheel size and solid rubber.
human, I agree. When getting rid of things, you have to overcome the mental conflict in your brain as to if it stays or goes. You can;t have someone else just come in and "fix the problem". It wil cause a total breakdown in that person and they will hold that grudge for decades or lose sleep at night over it. I've been there. I have been working with myself for years and it has taken the constant losing of things I need, and tripping or cutting my feet on stuff laying around, or not having room for new things to make myself go "okay, I want to have a livable house again" and I can now get rid of things on my own - but I don't want to just give it away either. I try and sell it first. kirbyguy, that is an amazing sequence of events in your house. Your dry climate there must have contributed to the long-term preservation of the cans. I know every inch of my house, I don't think it would be possible to forget about food for that long. lol I just had a few cans blow this weekend from 2015 expiration that had totally decayed and had eaten away the inside of the can and then caused it to blow. And yeah both people that like old food graphics/items as well as movie set designers love having old food items to use as background props for sets/shows./commercials. For canned stuff you can always just use a can opener that does a neatly cut lid open, empty the contents, wash the can and just keep the can sans contents. I paid $25 on eBay for some Durango'Os cereal that came from the Dodge booth at the Detroit auto show in 1997 for the promotion of the then-new Dodge Durango. My mother owns an '02 and I grew up with that truck so it's a really cool thing to have. | ||
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