Spiritually pondering about food expiration dates?

As one who has had food poisoning more than once, I check code-dates and refuse to eat out-of-code food. I also avoid meat or other packages with bloated air in the package. Some stores do fill them with Nitrogen to make the product look fresher than it is. It is more a symptom of bad product spoiled though.

I have found products over a month out-of-code on store shelves. So one must be careful. Only you are really looking out for you. Do not depend on someone else to do it.

I don't knowingly "buy" food that is past the expiration date. Food like milk is supposed to be good for 7 days after the expiration date. I've had food in my cupboard that was past the expiration date and I examined it checking for an odor or signs of mold and if it looked OK and I wanted to eat it I did and I never got sick. If I took a bite and it tasted funny I would have spit it out and thrown it away. Expiration dates always are given to be on the "safe side" and some foods with expiration dates can literally last for a couple of years longer than the date on the container.

I do eat food past its expiration date, depending on what kind of food it is and how far past the date it is. If it's only a couple days, I don't worry about it. If it's more than a week, I throw it away... unless it's cheese. Cheese is good for months past the expiration date as long as it doesn't have mold on it.

I won't ever buy food that's past its expiration date, though.

When in doubt, throw it out.

The expiration date is only the date it has to be sold by, not the date it goes rotten. Still... I'm not drinking any milk that Stop&Shop didn't want three days ago.

I check dates. If stuff in my cupboards are past the expiration date I toss them. It is not worth getting sick and dying. I had food poisoning once and I have a permanent reminder of it.

Your question is actually related to matter, because it addresses the fundamental question whether consciousness is a byproduct of our physical brains, or is independent of it - at least to some extent. People who don't believe in some type of life after death usually believe that consciousness is dependent on the body and will simply stop functioning when the body dies. Not that I believe that.

Expiry dates on canned foods are mostly nonsense as long as the can is neither bulged (signal of gas producing bacterial activity) or dented (denting does not itself pose a direct danger, but it can result in protective coating being disturbed resulting in reaction between contents and base metal of can).

For fresh meat or dairy, ignoring shelf dating is foolish.

buy no way

eat some times

depends on what it is and how long it has been in the cabinets

smile

good luck

Eat, yes.

Buy, no.