[nabs-l] Parishable Food Items

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Chelsea,
That is a little hard to know. If you're in a dorm, why not ask someone the 
expiration date?
If you go shopping every two weeks, you probably have nothing to worry 
about.
Over time you'll sense when things go bad; as I haven't lived on my own 
much, living in the dorm with the new fridge was new to me too.
Generally, things have a certain shelf life.
Sounds like you mainly buy dairy products: yogurt, milk, etc. Maybe you buy 
lunch meat and bread and cheese to have in place of cafeteria food, 
sometimes.

Well for milk, I heard it lasts a few weeks.
You can smell or taste when it goes bad.
For yogurt, I imagine it would smell bad too.
Yogurt should last a couple weeks provided you seal the container tight 
after using it.

Lunch meat lasts over a week.  Cheese sliced up lasts
a week at least.

One thing is I cannot tell if bread is moldy; it doesn't smell or feel 
different, unless its real gotten moldy, but just a little bit I don't know.
So I've  just asked someone or relied on how long its been around.  Like I 
had this bread six days, its still good.

Hth,
Ashley
-----Original Message----- 
From: Chelsea Cook
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 10:58 PM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabs-l] Parishable Food Items

Hi all,

One of the coolest things about college dorm rooms is ... the mini
fridge! However, the stuff I put into mine sometimes gives me trouble.
How do you guys manage milk and yogurt and stuff like that in terms of
expiration dates? Usually, since it's just me, I go shopping about
every two weeks and try to get items that will expire in the same
window, but it's still tricky and I haven't gotten it down to a
science yet. (Play on words, haha!) Anyway, any tips short of writing
down everything would be helpful.

Thanks,
Chelsea

-- 
Chelsea Cook

Virginia Tech 2015; Physics Major
cook2010 at vt.edu
"I ask you to look both ways.  For the road to a knowledge of the
stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has
been reached through
the stars."
Sir Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist (1882-1944), Stars and
Atoms (1928), Lecture 1

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