I don’t keep my plums in the fridge.
Don’t think I have ever really had this problem. I just eat the stuff I buy because it would be a waste of money not to.
Also best before dates are just a suggestion.
I love how my local grocery stores sell steaks at a deep discount when they’re a day or two from expiring. Like, 75% off for aged beef? OK, if you insist.
I miss when heavy discounts like that were common. Much harder to find now. They usually manage to sell it off at much lower discounts instead.
I found a 5 pound slab of skirt steak for about $6 a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was hallucinating.
Before or after eating the expired beef?
I’ll eat leftovers a week later and people act like I’m eating a baby. Sniff test motherfuckers, heard of it? People waste so much food it infuriates me.
People have different sensitivity to smells; I wouldn’t trust my nose to detect when something starts to spoil, and when it completely went awry I am able to see it anyway.
Most things I eat don’t even need a sniff test. You can see and feel veg is going off before you can smell it and its safe to eat for longer than I am willing to eat it. Its only once it starts going mouldy or slimy that its unsafe.
Soy sauce, honey, salt, dried herbs are essentially never going off. Worst with herbs is reduced flavour, but I grow my own. Been meaning to make a smoked salt and herb mix sometime. Got to actually smoke some salt though.
The raspberries and avocados play roulette tho’!
You putting it all on red, or black?
Yes.
Fuck avocados and their 15-minute ripeness window.
This is why I like living close to a grocery store. I make lots of small trips instead of a big one.
This is the way. I just buy what I need every day. Barely ever waste something
when i rode transit every day to work, that’s exactly what i used to do. i’d just stop on the way home, then pick up the next bus going my way.
That’s what my parents did growing up. They didn’t have a refrigerator and when they got one, it was super small.
Ew, leaving the house multiple times a week?
I shop once a week, and get everything I need for the week. One trip, twenty minutes in and out. No processed packaged foods, mostly fresh and frozen vegetables, fruit, and organic chicken (no antibiotics). Zero food waste, because even fresh vegetables will survive a week in the fridge. On the last day before shopping day, my fridge is virtually empty.
I don’t like shopping, so I made it as efficient as I could.
I still am, but I used to be as well.
Me every other week throwing out the food I thought better me would make. No. You ate the easy food like always, numbskull.
I started a compost and freeze all my meat till use. Goodbye, guilt! Those plums are bettering my soil now! I’m stealing south america’s water and nutrients!
I feel like the fridge thinks people can’t change
I thought it was the compressor making that sound when I put that food in, but it’s just the fridge either laughing or sighing.
Its your fault for getting those sloppy plums.
But are there any leftovers of sloppy steaks?
gotta get them REAL sloppy!
They can’t stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!
Throw the plums in the garden, free fertiliser
Maybe even a plum tree!
As long as you live somewhere plum trees can grow! (Cries in taiga)
Even more free food waste!
Infinite fertilizer hack
Yes! Rodent corpses make great fertilizer. Just missing the step where you kill the rodents…
Why does this look like Leslie Nielsen doing an impression of the main guy from The A-Team, while cosplaying as Ric Flair?
Let’s be real, if you haven’t watched Eastbound and Down, it’s worth it just for Stevie.
Its easier to just eat crackers.
Literally have a few oranges in the way back that have been in there for months.
If oranges could stink, my fridge would probably stink.
Random craft idea you can say you planned all along! Cut oranges in half and scrape out the insides (eat/drink if safe to do so) then dry out the skins. Either in the oven or placed in direct sunlight should be fine.
Once dry, paint the outside of each half red and add white spots. You now have a mushroom cap! Use a small branch/stick and cut it to length and use that as the stem. Glue together.
Once the skin dries out like that, and you paint it, wouldn’t it continue to degrade over time?
For me it’s the limes. They always look fine in there for months but when I grab one the underside looks like Chthulu’s butthole.
Sorry, I was in the mood for beans
I bought these plums for you, past me! The fuck?
It’s why I stopped buying milk.
