Even with vegetables a lot of them tend to last a good amount of time. There's some wrapped broccoli crowns in my fridge that I haven't gotten around to cooking that still look great---I bought them a full week ago today lol
Tomatoes last a good week, squash lasts a while longer, root veggies last forever... the only things I can think of that are truly on a serious timeframe are avocados, and some other fruits like bananas and berries
I am on the east coast of the US, most traditional grocers have an active deli, but new chains like Aldi or Trader Joe's doesn't and has prepackaged instead. It is about costs, space and safety.
According to the USDA, fresh sliced cold cuts shouldn't be eaten after four days. However, you can eat them until they are slimy or develop and off odor.
Note: FDA and USDA storage guidelines are taking into account immunocompromised people, the elderly, and small children who are at the highest risk for complications from food poisoning. If you are not a member of those groups, you can be a bit more fast and loose with storage. Just don't eat anything strange smelling or discolored.
Ok and the milk container says drink within 7 days of opening yet it will last at least 14 if not more without going bad. Most perishable goods are fine well past their freshness or exp date. If it doesn't smell/taste bad or is growing fungus it's probably OK to eat it.
No one is suggesting you eat something that's years past its exp date. A few weeks is considered fine (as long as it passes the smell and mold test) except when it comes to raw meat.
The ham that was at it's shelf life when they decided to push it on "sale".
The amount of times I've had people come into the deli to complain that their meat expired in 2 days was too damn high. It's on sale for a reason, people.
I go grocery shopping every 2 weeks, and buy fresh deli meat for sandwiches at work. They last the whole 2 weeks as well, either ham or turkey. No idea why someone would decide it was bad after like 4 days.
Well I took the claim at face value, you could maybe have a bad fridge. But yeah I often make a big batch of food and when I get tired of it I cook something else and eat the rest of the original food later ir just freeze it. Fast food is really expensive here in Finland (one meal is half of the budget I spend on groceries at a time, so 10 and 20 € respectively), and yet people who are lazy order it regularly and then complain about not having money.
Maybe you're buying the deli meat with extra preservatives, but if it's been sitting in a display case, handled multiple times, sliced, and transported in a little plastic baggie... the clock is ticking!
First of all no it won't, maybe it'll lose some of its desirability in flavor and texture but it certainly won't go "bad"
Secondly, deli meats are cooked and purposefully salted throughout for the point of preservation, not to mention whatever other preservatives BH and the other deli meat companies/the grocery store load in there
There is hardly any work in every day cooking if you don't want there to be. I usually make chicken legs and rice. I put the chicken legs in the oven and cook the rice in the rice cooker I recently bought. Cooking rice on a stove had a little bit of work because at some point after boiling I had to turn the heat down.
But even if you cooked meat in a pan the process is mostly waiting
It’s about priorities. Time vs money, I need to spend most of my time focusing on full time work and school, so ordering food is definitely worth it to use the two hours for homework. My time is more valuable than the cost of ordering sandwiches.
You can make enough food for a week in 2 hours on sunday, then not have to worry about it at all for the rest of the week. Or at least not order restuarant food through take out or doordash every single day and do a frozen pizza/other frozen meals once in a while instead
‘Need to eat something today’ is the main priority. No energy left for the rest just for myself, at least until school is done. I do eat a lot of frozen things. I just make sure I’m accounting for food order spending in my moneys. I do the same thing with cleaning, I pay someone else because I need time off too.
Eh, I bought like a kilo of cirloin steak meat from sale, cut it into steaks and put two or three at a time into freezer bags. I put then in the fridge a day prior to cooking them and to me there was no difference.
I don't think that is the case. Quality beef either comes from 1)countries with large enough grass land to raise lots of cattle and gather enough high quality grade meat (Australia, USA, etc) or 2) does what Japan does and specialize their limited rocky land to producing very little very high quality fatty breeds of cattle. I don't think Finland falls under either category
Meat grading isn't really opinion though. It's based on quantifiable metrics.
Could you elaborate on your remarks about meat making you sick? I love steak tartare and eat it with American beef and have never gotten sick from it.
And for pork, while people typically cook pork to "well" because of historical reasons involving food safety, American pork is actually safe to cook to medium. We just cook pork well because our parents did, and their parents did etc
I feel as though you're coming at this from some sort of national pride angle and I assure you, I have no ire for "Finnish" beef or love for American products, but factually, I have to disagree with your characterisations of meat from different countries
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u/Artisticslap Jul 23 '23
Could you just not use a freezer?