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Someone before thought I worked in a food lab, you're wondering if I teach food hygiene, I wish (if only for a salary)!
I don't work, I don't have any professional involvement with food and unless you count waiting on tables I never have. Everything I've learned about it I have learned because I have spent my whole life broke. For most of it I have not actually able to work (in education, single mother, or disabled), when I have been working I have not brought in anything more than avarage earnings. I'm fairly bright/inquisitive and generally would want the best possible quality of life for my means. This means I needed proper answers to questions such as 'of my rubbish what has a use and what is true waste'. The only solution is do the research.
The sources I've got my information from for replies in this thread are mostly published online and open to anyone including papers by Universities, The Office of National Statistics, the Food Standards Agency, the press etc. The ones that aren't published online are for sale on Amazon or available in the library. Anyone could have found this stuff out, but many wont have the interest or the time on their hands, which is fair enough.
Interesting you mention teaching as I am looking at making a return to working between spring 2011 and summer 2012 *if* my life/recovery goes according to plan. It is into a teaching field I am looking of going, but not about food.
I refuse to be afraid of the big bad wolf, spiders, or debt collection agencies; one of them's not real and the other two are powerless without my fear.
(Ok, one of them is powerless, spiders can be nasty.)
As of the last count I have cleared [STRIKE]23.16%[/STRIKE] 22.49% of my debt.
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So how about a pasta bake that we cooked on Sunday? It's been in the fridge since then. Can I eat it cold?Trev. Having an out-of-money experience!
C'MON! Let's get this debt sorted!!0 -
i dont i just use use it up if it looks horrible then ill chuck itReplies to posts are always welcome, If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you0
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So how about a pasta bake that we cooked on Sunday? It's been in the fridge since then. Can I eat it cold?
you can heat it up it wll be fineReplies to posts are always welcome, If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you0 -
I was thinking about this thread at the weekend, people saying 'just smell it and see if it's off'. Is that something we're likely to lose as we evolve? With all the controls and anti-bacterial stuff we have around us, the germs may get stronger and we may use more technology to control it, but we're no longer using our senses to test stuff that we eat!
However, it's been a long time since the humans with the worst senses for 'off' food actually caused them to die and therefore not pass on their genes, so will we ever actually evolve into this tech controlled life we are now living? So that we really are dominated by it so much that without it we'd be the weakest species on the planet?Trev. Having an out-of-money experience!
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Hi
Not usually a poster, but lurk, so this may not be the correct place to post this.
For dinner this evening, I decided to have a look at the top shelf in the cupboard to see what was hiding (this is mainly due to the fact that I used to be too lazy to either get the step ladder or a chair to have a look, but have invested in a wonderful folding stool which is a perfect height for doing this job!) Anyway found tins of peas, sweetcorn & the obligatory tinned tomatoes, so cooked them all off, then discovered the BB date was July 2007 :rotfl:Now, I had added so much chilli flakes, brains are currently on way back to earth, so not really expecting alot to happen, but at what out of date stage would I have to worry.
On the plus side, a bit of food poisoning (have had it once and would not wish it on my worst enemy) would do wonders for a bit of weigh loss and have a day or two off work
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If there was nothing obviously wrong with the contents you should be absolutely fine. Tinned food can keep for yonks and yonks.
Please post back tomorrow to confirm that I wasn't wrong about this.....0 -
Should be fine - just make sure that the tins are not damaged before opening and if it fizzes then don't eat it.Man plans and God laughs...Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry. But by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it introduces the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.0
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