Here's some helpful hints for other bachelors here...I've compiled this list to help ensure all of us eat properly
The Bachelor's Guide to Food!
~*~ BREAD: Sesame seeds and Poppy seeds are the only officially
acceptable "spots" that should be seen on the surface of any loaf of
bread. Fuzzy and hairy looking white or green growth areas are good
indications that your bread has turned into a pharmaceutical laboratory
experiment.
~*~ CANNED GOODS: Any canned goods that have become the size or shape of
a softball should be disposed of. Carefully.
~*~ CARROTS: A carrot that you can tie a clove hitch in is not fresh.
~*~ CEREAL: It is generally a good rule of thumb that cereal should be
discarded when it is two years or longer beyond the expiration date.
~*~ CHIP DIP: If you can take it out of its container and bounce it on
the floor, it has gone bad.
~*~ DAIRY PRODUCTS: Milk is spoiled when it starts to look like yogurt.
Yogurt is spoiled when it starts to look like cottage cheese. Cottage
cheese is spoiled when it starts to look like regular cheese. Regular
cheese is nothing but spoiled milk anyway and can't get any more spoiled
than it is already. Cheddar cheese is spoiled when you think it is bleu
cheese but you realize you've never purchased that kind.
~*~ EGGS: When something starts pecking its way out of the shell, the
egg is probably past its prime.
~*~ EMPTY CONTAINERS: Putting empty containers back into the
refrigerator is an old trick, but it only works if you live with someone
or have a maid.
~*~ EXPIRATION DATES: This is NOT a marketing ploy to encourage you to
throw away perfectly good food so that you'll spend more on groceries.
Perhaps you'd benefit by having a calendar in your kitchen.
~*~ FLOUR: Flour is spoiled when it wiggles.
~*~ FROZEN FOODS: Frozen foods that have become an integral part of the
defrosting problem in your freezer compartment will probably be spoiled
(or wrecked anyway) by the time you pry them out with a kitchen knife.
~*~ GAG TEST: Anything that makes you gag is spoiled (except for
leftovers from what you cooked for yourself last night).
~*~ LETTUCE: Iceberg lettuce is spoiled when you can't get it off the
bottom of the vegetable crisper without sandpaper. Romaine lettuce is
spoiled when it turns liquid.
~*~ MAYONNAISE: If it makes you violently ill after you eat it, the
mayonnaise is spoiled.
~*~ MEAT: If opening the refrigerator door causes all stray animals
within a three-block radius to congregate outside your house, the meat
is spoiled.
~*~ POTATOES: Fresh potatoes do not have roots, branches, or dense,
leafy undergrowth.
~*~ RAISINS: Raisins should not be harder than your teeth.
~*~ SALT: It never spoils.
~*~ UNMARKED ITEMS: You know it is well beyond prime when you're tempted
to discard the Tupperware along with the food. Generally speaking,
Tupperware containers should not burp when you open them.
~*~ GENERAL RULE OF THUMB: Most food cannot be kept longer than the
average life span of a hamster. Keep a hamster in or near your
refrigerator to gauge this.
Eat Healthy!
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