If I ever didn't have enough food in the house to comfortably last a month without anything but perishables, I think I'd go into some kind of panic-driven shopping mode. It's just the way I live; I buy the foods that I use when they're on sale, and I try to buy enough of any given food that it should last until the next time I hit a good sale. I learned this from my mom, although unlike her, I generally avoid buying foods that I *don't* use just because they're on sale, or continuing to buy at every sale even when I already have two year's worth of that particular food at home. There's a (general) space in the pantry for each species, and if the space is full, I don't buy more of it unless they're really giving it away. Whenever I open a new can or box of something, I do my best to make sure I get the oldest one, and generally nothing stays around so long that it goes bad.
If a can swells up, throw it away without worrying. Canned food is too cheak to risk botulism. As to freezer-burned meat -- you can make perfectly edible chili out of stuff that's well beyond serving as, say, steak.
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Date: 2006-03-08 05:26 am (UTC)If a can swells up, throw it away without worrying. Canned food is too cheak to risk botulism. As to freezer-burned meat -- you can make perfectly edible chili out of stuff that's well beyond serving as, say, steak.