An interesting news report today about a move to simplify the expiration dates on foods. Highly perishable foods like meat, eggs, milk will be marked 'use by' implying that if you use them after that date they can make you sick. On the other hand foods like boxes of cereal, macaroni and cheese mixes, etc will be marked 'best if used by' which means it won't kill you but it might not taste as good as when it was new. Sounds like a reasonable, easy to understand system. It reminded me though af a time a few months ago when a girl friend took some milk out of my refrigerator and asked me if it was safe? It was about a month past its expiration date. What she didn't know, til I explained, was that I freeze milk. When I see a really good price on half-gallon jugs I stock up and store them in the freezer. Of course you have to pour a little off the top of each jug so it doesn't explode in the freezer. My husband and I first discovered that you could freeze milk when we were camping with our young children. We figured out that jugs of frozen milk work really well to keep other food good in the cooler and, as it melts, it's cold, fresh and ready to use on cereal. So there you have it, my fresh food tip of the day.
PS You can also freeze cheese.
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