I am staying with my father with my twins this weekend.
I heard the twins all excited that he was making them pancakes with syrup....then I remembered that we didn't have any syrup.
I went into the kitchen, and to my horror, my father "found" an OPENED bottle of log cabin syrup in the pantry....that had to have been 10 years old or better.
He threw a fit that "sugar doesn't spoil", and I told him under no circumstances was he giving my kids that syrup....he's 80 years old.
I found some strawberry jelly in the fridge, and warmed it up, and we used that and the kids loved it.
He even put some on his finger and said, "See! Still tastes the same!"
I told him, "you can do that to yourself, but you are not feeding my kids food that is twice their age".
Anyone else noticed in the last few years that the expiration dates on foods and meds sold now are considerably shorter than stuff sold a few years back? (Like a few months as opposed to a couple of years).
Ya think they've changed the ingredients and things go bad sooner?
Huh. Wonder how much stuff gone bad me and mine consumed that was still labeled as "OK".
Or could it POSSIBLE be a sales ploy to get people to buy and replace these products more frequently?...:icon_roll
i tend to think a ploy - i buy stuff at the amish scratch and dent store- it is mostly outdated stuff. never had a problem- now if its like mayo or chocolate - i dont get it - but have had no trouble with canned goods and stuff like that. vacuum selad stuff etc. i have bene told by my pharmacistst hat most meds ( unless like nitro or some stuff that may weaken and be useless so it is not good to use as it wuld not do the job it needs to do.) i have used meds that are several yrs old and not had trouble- guess it deends on th eitem or what its made of.
I think there's also a very good possibility that the manufacturers are trying to eliminate even the remotest chance that something might go bad while still in-date. We do live in a very lawsuit-happy society these days.
I think that some people play the lottery, and others file lawsuits, both in the hopes of "hitting the jackpot."
probaly right on that point - even pepsi and other soda put out dates now-
I have also used my heavy cream and half&half when they had expired a month before (they were still perfectly good, BTW).
I don't blame you for wanting to not give your kidlets old food - you're a momma bear, and protecting the little ones is what momma bears do! Just cut the old fella some slack.:kiss
On the same note I had some spoiled milk this week the expiration date is still 2 weeks away. Yes the milk was refrigerated.
It happens. When I was in the military over seas we bought some powered milk. I saw an ad on the back of the pkg for an yogurt maker was going to send for it and then discovered the offer expired 2 years earlier. The military commasary system regularly inspects food. They are authorized to sell past the expriation date when the food checks out as still ok.
My hubby told me when they were in Viet nam it was normal to have meal worms or maggots in the powered milk and flour etc that they got.
Syrup, honey and sugar keep very well due to the high ossmolarity. That is the reason that old fashioned canned jelly and preserves have very high sugar content. The sugar is the preservative. The ones you have to refrigerate or freeze now days do not have that same level of sugar content. That is also why old fashioned jellly did not have to be vacume sealed just a little wax seal was enough.
Bread mold is not harmful. Though it taste really bad and some people may be allergic it is not pathogenic nor is the mold on jelly or syrup.
I have enough trouble trying to convince some residents that they are in fact already in bed when they ask to be put in bed, I wouldn't even attempt to argue with them (or my 95 y/o grandmother) about syrup.
I say, pick your battles- if it hasn't killed them yet it probably never will. When I am older, I'm sure I will be very set in my ways too. Each generation has its own unique quirks. I think my generation- the products of the 1980's-90's will be the most bizzare nursing home residents to ever enter LTC.
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i tend to think a ploy - i buy stuff at the amish scratch and dent store- it is mostly outdated stuff. never had a problem- now if its like mayo or chocolate - i dont get it - but have had no trouble with canned goods and stuff like that. vacuum selad stuff etc. i have bene told by my pharmacistst hat most meds ( unless like nitro or some stuff that may weaken and be useless so it is not good to use as it wuld not do the job it needs to do.) i have used meds that are several yrs old and not had trouble- guess it deends on th eitem or what its made of.