Do you check expiration dates when grocery shopping?
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Comments (7)Found this at the link below. Q. How long can bottled spices be kept; what is the shelf life? A. The good news is, spices do not spoil. The bad news is, they lose their strength. What is interesting is that a lot of cookbook writers tell you to purge your pantry once an herb or spice is about 6 months old. But the spice companies  among them behemoth McCormick and specialty spicer Penzeys  are not so reckless. They tell you to keep and use the spices as long as they appear to have flavor  and they trust you to be able to tell! Here is a link that might be useful: When Do Herbs & Spices Give Up the Ghost?...See Moregrocery shopping ? on sale, do you
Comments (25)Yep, I am QUEEN of that! I try to also use a coupon witha good sale! But I think DH would kill me if I came home with 6 boxes of cereal! lol We don't have that much room! I usually buy 2-3 depending on the product and how fast we'll use it. He talks about getting a new fridge and putting the old one in the garage, but I know I'd fill that sucker up way too fast!! The local community center just asked for "Spring" baskets for the kids-no candy, just tolietries, and some games or little toys. I throw all my duplicate bathroom stuff into one box in my closet. I was able to fill up a pretty nice basket using just "extras" I picked up on sale! I also pick up little toys, markers, crafts for DD, if I see a good sale. I call it the rainy day box. When we are bored or run out of stuff to do-I try and find something "new" to play with from the box. The other day it was white playdoh-which now I realize gets dirty looking REALLY fast!!...See MoreDo you check your grocery receipts?
Comments (39)Fairly often, and if I find an undercharge, or too much change, I call it to their attention. Several years ago, when the scanners came in rather than the sticker with the price on each item, there was a bunker with frozen fish on sale, with a placard showing the price per pound over the bunker. When I checked the price on the item, the amount per pound was different/higher. I called it to an employee's attention, he said that the price on the placard was when it had been on sale, the day before. I told him that I should get the advertised price, he said that the sale price was no longer available, I insisted ... he ended up agreeing and so marked my package. I walked around the store for ten minutes or a quarter hour, returned to the fish bunker ... and the sale price placard was still up. I asked for the store manager, called the situation to his attention and told him of my suspicion that there was duplicity afoot. That we used to have the price on each item that was going through the register, so could check. As it is these days, we almost need to write down the price on the shelf for each item, to check with the receipt. I don't often find errors on the receipt ... and I do find that the line item for sale goods usually lists the reg. price, then the amount of saving on the discount below it. ole joyful...See MoreHow Often Do You Shop For Groceries?
Comments (32)Sorry to get off topic, but in answer to a few comments: NIDO brand powdered milk contains fat (available at Wal-Mart in the Latino products isle), as does PEAK Dry Whole Milk Powder (I've ordered it from Amazon, but didn't really like it as well as other brands for drinking), and those are brands I would recommend for people who have to subsist on powdered milk with small children because it contains the necessary fat. You can also add butter, especially grass-fed butter or ghee to the diet to add a good source of fat. If there is one thing we normally don't lack in the Standard American Diet it's fat. And "taste" is subjective, I'll grant you that ;-). When we started using powdered milk products they were lactose-free brands - a whey-based milk substitute called Meadow Fresh - suggested by our then 4-year old's pediatrician, due to our son's lactose intolerance - which hubby and our granddaughter also have in common. It made food preparation a whole lot easier, and hubby can enjoy his chocolate "milk" nightcap. Back then (1981) lactose-free nut milk, coconut milk, etc., were not readily available. I have a friend who has a daughter living in Alaska, and each year he goes to visit, he takes them two buckets of Morning Moo's whey-based powdered milk because milk is so expensive there. Friends who visit their military family in Hawaii did the same thing. So powdered milk isn't a one-size-fits-all product. I also regularly teach a class about using powdered milk at the local Food Bank, where it's a mainstay food item. It's not just for drinking. If all you have is non-fat dry powdered milk, there are so many things you can do with it, plus a few pantry items, and those are other ways to add calcium to your diet besides by-the-glass. Powdered milk is an important ingredient in homemade mixes for pancakes/waffles, baking mix (homemade version of Bisquick), hot chocolate mix, and the ever versatile "Magic Mix" which is a base mix you can use to make cream of ______ soup mixtures, gravy, pudding, Alfredo Sauce, and the ever popular "Magic Mix Fudgsicles". So you don't like powdered milk, but you might love it if that's all you had to use and you could use it for so many more things than just drinking it from a glass. How often necessity quickly becomes the mother of invention..... -Grainlady...See MoreOlychick
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