Expiration Dates?

[LSPoorEeyorick]

We keep almost everything in the fridge (including tortillas.) Not ideal, but helps stuff last. But even that isn't helping right now - the biggest problem has been with dairy which we'd never keep anywhere but in the fridge. And like I said, fridge isn't the problem either - our farm market produce is AOK.

[BarTopDancer]

I'm going to Henry's today. I'll check out the expiration dates on dairy.

The tortilla's I bought from Target lasted a few months. I tossed them because I wasn't going to eat them.

I always keep bread in the freezer.

[katiesue]

I buy the dairy products for our little office fridge. Since they're for guests and my one boss who rarely shows I try to find the pull dates that are the furthest out. I used to be able to find for instance yogurts that had about a 3-4 week out pull date. Now that seems to have shortened down to a couple of weeks or less. The same with milks. My guess is people are buying less and as has been said the stores are getting fewer deliveries meaning stuff stays on the shelves longer.

[BarTopDancer]

Just returned from Henry's. The dairy I looked at had sell by dates of July 23rd or the 30th. The stuff for the 30th was in the back.

A gallon of Horizon organic whole milk was $6.50. Half gallon was $3.50. I wasn't buying milk and they were stocking so I didn't want to make the guy move. They looked like their sell by dates were July 30. In the past when I bought Horizon milk the sell by date was several weeks away. I didn't dig back to see if there was stuff further back or not.

I also bought a ton of fresh produce for about $20. Seems like all the good stuff (peaches, plums, tomatoes, grapes, pineapple) were all on sale. It will most likely go bad before I eat it all, but that is because I always buy more than I can eat.

[lashbear]

I always buy our vegetables Pre-Rotted. It saves time maturing them in the Vegetable 'Crisper' in the fridge.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Six Fifty for a gallon of milk??

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by BDBopper

Yes I have. Ouch! We can thank the ethanol credits. Instead of corn going into cereal and other products it's going into fuel. Thus we now have a shortage of corn which results in more expensive products and less of them.I am not opposed to ethanol but it should be derived from something that isn't an ingredient in our food.

I still think we'd be better off removing the import tariffs on sugar and "encouraging" companies to stop using corn syrup.

And maybe move towards a more general biodiesel fuel.

[Morrigoon]

Even regular milk is nearly $4/gallon these days. You can drink it or you can drive it, it seems.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Six Fifty for a gallon of milk??

Yup. Now, Horizons is organic, but a gallon of 1% milk at Von's is $4.59.

I'm skeeved out by milk and will for the most part only drink organic, or stuff with no hormones or other crap in it (just milk, meat and other stuff I'm not that picky - prefer organic but I'll eat preservatives).

[alphabassettgrrl]

It was in the '80s that my mom gave me a cartoon (Bloom County) joking about how gas was cheaper than milk and the cat drinks unleaded now.

Gas isn't cheap now, but it's definitely rivaling milk. And yes, organic milk is more expensive. I get my milk from Trader Joes; their brand has no hormones.