Don't think I have ever really had this problem. I just eat the stuff I buy because it would be a waste of money not to.
Also best before dates are just a suggestion.
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I’ll eat leftovers a week later and people act like I’m eating a baby. Sniff test motherfuckers, heard of it? People waste so much food it infuriates me.
I love how my local grocery stores sell steaks at a deep discount when they're a day or two from expiring. Like, 75% off for aged beef? OK, if you insist.
I miss when heavy discounts like that were common. Much harder to find now. They usually manage to sell it off at much lower discounts instead.
I found a 5 pound slab of skirt steak for about $6 a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was hallucinating.
I helped my parents clean out the refrigerator a couple years ago. I found the usual expired jams and jellies and other pickled things that were about 2 to 3 years overdue. But when I went into the freezer the oldest date I found was something that was hovering on 20 years past due. It's amazing how people neglect their icebox.
I bought these plums for you, past me! The fuck?
Someone else would have bought these plums and treated them right.
This is why I like living close to a grocery store. I make lots of small trips instead of a big one.
Ew, leaving the house multiple times a week?
This is the way. I just buy what I need every day. Barely ever waste something
That's what my parents did growing up. They didn't have a refrigerator and when they got one, it was super small.
It's why I stopped buying milk.
Why does this look like Leslie Nielsen doing an impression of the main guy from The A-Team, while cosplaying as Ric Flair?
I feel like the fridge thinks people can’t change
Its your fault for getting those sloppy plums.
I thought it was the compressor making that sound when I put that food in, but it's just the fridge either laughing or sighing.
Sorry, I was in the mood for beans
The raspberries and avocados play roulette tho'!
Fuck avocados and their 15-minute ripeness window.
You putting it all on red, or black?
Yes.
But are there any leftovers of sloppy steaks?
gotta get them REAL sloppy!
They can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!
Me every other week throwing out the food I thought better me would make. No. You ate the easy food like always, numbskull.
I started a compost and freeze all my meat till use. Goodbye, guilt! Those plums are bettering my soil now! I'm stealing south america's water and nutrients!
I still am, but I used to be as well.
Throw the plums in the garden, free fertiliser
Maybe even a plum tree!
As long as you live somewhere plum trees can grow! (Cries in taiga)
Even more free food waste!
Infinite fertilizer hack
Yes! Rodent corpses make great fertilizer. Just missing the step where you kill the rodents…
Literally have a few oranges in the way back that have been in there for months.
If oranges could stink, my fridge would probably stink.
For me it's the limes. They always look fine in there for months but when I grab one the underside looks like Chthulu's butthole.
Random craft idea you can say you planned all along! Cut oranges in half and scrape out the insides (eat/drink if safe to do so) then dry out the skins. Either in the oven or placed in direct sunlight should be fine.
Once dry, paint the outside of each half red and add white spots. You now have a mushroom cap! Use a small branch/stick and cut it to length and use that as the stem. Glue together.
Its easier to just eat crackers.
At least at our house it's just more expensive compost.