How long do you keep food in teh fridge?

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

i.e. leftovers and stuff you cook?

for me it's about a week....

My GF is telling me right now that some seaweed salad (the Korean stuff) I gave her 2 weekends ago is her lunch right now. That's kinda disgusting to me. She said it tastes fine but I told her to throw it out already.

I'll keep bread for up to 2 weeks if it's refrigerated. 1 week tops if it's out in the open (even if I tie it shut).

She also has a habit of oversalting her foods she cooks. I always figured Chinese restaurants did this to hide the freshness of ingredients, and it makes it harder to detect when stuff you have goes bad. Dunno.

 

[Leros]

Depends what it is.

Leftovers? Probably not more than 3 days.

 

[TwiceOver]

Cooked leftovers = 3 days
Ingredients are marked when opened and are kind of a judgement call.

 

[Anubis]

until it goes bad

 

[nageov3t]

depends on the food.

4-5 days for most meats (less for fish), maybe a week or two for baked goods (typically until they get hard or stale)

 

[Newbian]

What was in the "seaweed salad"?

Most fresh veggies will last a long time.

 

[TallBill]

I never have leftovers, so I dunno.

 

[FoBoT]

i keep dill pickles in the fridge for several weeks, unless i eat them up faster

 

[hanoverphist]

until it grows legs and walks itself to the trash. i wont eat it after a few days tho usually.

 

[Platypus]

I'm really bad about cleaning out old shit from mine.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Newbian
What was in the "seaweed salad"?

Most fresh veggies will last a long time.

http://www.narita-express.com/images/seaweed-salad.jpg that stuff

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Newbian
What was in the "seaweed salad"?

Most fresh veggies will last a long time.

http://www.narita-express.com/images/seaweed-salad.jpg that stuff

What exactly is in it?

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i keep dill pickles in the fridge for several weeks, unless i eat them up faster

Still waiting on the Pickle Emoticon for just such a reply.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I keep my food in the frige until I eat it or throw it out .... 95% of leftovers get eaten though .... so I don't throw much stuff out.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Newbian

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Newbian
What was in the "seaweed salad"?

Most fresh veggies will last a long time.

http://www.narita-express.com/images/seaweed-salad.jpg that stuff

What exactly is in it?

Algae and some sauce. Its actually pretty good.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i keep dill pickles in the fridge for several weeks, unless i eat them up faster

Still waiting on the Pickle Emoticon for just such a reply.

Now what starts with the letter "P"?
"Pickle" starts with "P"!
Let's think of other things that starts with "P"!
Uh. . .Uh. . . Who cares about da other things?!

(CHORUS)x2

"P" is for Pickle that's good enough for me,
"P" is for Pickle that's good enough for me,
"P" is for Pickle that's good enough for me,
Oh! Pickle, Pickle, Pickle starts with "P"!

ickle;

 

[Crono]

Few cooked foods keep well in a fridge for more than a few days, exceptions being baked good and deserts (and anything heavily salted/dried or sealed well).

 

[ElFenix]

bread in the fridge gets disgusting fast. maybe if you're eating crappy bread to begin with it doesn't change how bad it is, but good bread just dies in the fridge.

 

[DrPizza]

I just cook for me and the wife now, kids have gone to school. Whatever is leftover after dinner, I pack for lunch(es.) Any minor leftovers, like the wings & back from a chicken, I stick in a bowl for the cats on our porch. The cats take care of it, bones and all. If bread starts to go stale (or gets mold on it, as has happened occasionally) before we finish a loaf, I just toss the leftover bread in the yard for the chickens. And, if after dinner and 1 or 2 lunches, I just don't feel like finishing some other leftover that my dogs find appealing, I feed it to them.

So, none of the food from the fridge ever makes it into the trash. Even when I trim fat off a chicken before cooking it - I just feed that to the cats. That way, no maggots in the garbage during the summer, no flies attracted to the garbage. And, since the garbage is "clean", I only have to go to the dump about once per month when the cans are full of non-burnables, such as styrofoam.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I just cook for me and the wife now, kids have gone to school. Whatever is leftover after dinner, I pack for lunch(es.) Any minor leftovers, like the wings & back from a chicken, I stick in a bowl for the cats on our porch. The cats take care of it, bones and all. If bread starts to go stale (or gets mold on it, as has happened occasionally) before we finish a loaf, I just toss the leftover bread in the yard for the chickens. And, if after dinner and 1 or 2 lunches, I just don't feel like finishing some other leftover that my dogs find appealing, I feed it to them.

So, none of the food from the fridge ever makes it into the trash. Even when I trim fat off a chicken before cooking it - I just feed that to the cats. That way, no maggots in the garbage during the summer, no flies attracted to the garbage. And, since the garbage is "clean", I only have to go to the dump about once per month when the cans are full of non-burnables, such as styrofoam.

Hmm. Now I just need a farm.