From Pantry to Plate: The Art of Managing the Expiration Dates
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2024
- Managing expiration dates in your prepared pantry is akin to orchestrating a delicate culinary symphony, where every ingredient plays a crucial role. As the maestro of your kitchen, you conduct this harmonious ensemble, ensuring that each item reaches its crescendo of flavor before its designated expiration date. With meticulous attention to detail and strategic planning, you transform potential waste into culinary masterpieces, creating a symphony of flavors that dance on the palate with every bite.
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I thought I was a pretty good budget-oriented, stay-at-home mom. But I gotta tell ya, I wish there had been UA-cam back then with Leisa teaching me back then what I know now! Everyone needs a Leisa in their life these days.
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Leisa, when I was a driver for a Survival Center we would go to a few of the stores in the area to pick up their expired food ( breads ,vegis fruits meats and dairy ) and redistribute it to the community . it helps sooo many people and stops the waist of sooo much food
Spam used a can 5 years past best buy and we didn't die. Love it LOL. Thanks for all you do.
Yeah, I don't plan meals. I just look at what needs to be used, and make something work with that. For example, potatoes were on sale at 20 cents per pound, and I bought as much as I could. So, this month, I'm eating a lot of potatoes. Whatever is on sale, that's what we're eating;) I use my shelf-stable pantry items to make the potatoes awesome.
So I finally checked the date on my chloraseptic spray. I knew it was old and I did buy a new one but I went back to using the old one because it works better on my sore throat. It expired 4/2010 I’m going to keep using it! It hasn’t killed me yet! 😂😂 my analysis is chloraseptic spray is a forever medication!! Kind of like campho-phenique and Vaseline.
I love the idea of color coding each year. Thank you! I am a visual person and I can see that this will be sooooo helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Tried it because i am a really visual person, but it didnt help me
Last year I found out on the FDA website that commercially canned foods can, in theory, last much longer than the use by date. They state if the cans are intact, not rusted, not bulging and the food inside looks ok and tastes ok, you can consume it. It may have lost nutrition, but should be ok if you follow the "checks". Obviously, use common sense and toss if you are not sure.
If it smells bad…out it goes!
Yes, but if it's home canned hamburger, it won't smell good even it IS still good. I learned that from Leisa. But, most things, you're right. :)
In the metal shelves, I took the time to stack and line up grocery-bought cans. I always mark the BB date on top in marker. So, you start at the front top, work your way down, then next stack behind it, and so forth. My home canned food is in cupboards, organized by year I canned it. Freeze-dried the same way. I start from the left and work to the right. Right now, I'm still working on combining all the dry foods into 5 gallon bags and buckets, instead of the 2.5 gallon bags I had them in. It saves space, and I can store more. Wish I'd thought of the 5 gallon buckets sooner. It's a huge job that I'm doing in spurts. We put a window A/C in that room to keep it cool. I'm more interested in long-term. After I organized the green beans (that I bought over time), I counted. 274 cans. I'm not buying anymore. It's ridiculous! We're eating veggies that are 4 years past the BB date. Color changes a little, but they're fine. As always, good video!
On store bought canned food, I write the best buy date on front of cans. It helps to not miss an older can when I'm ready to use it. My store bought food I have gone past the expiation date as long as 5 years with no issues. I have used my food I caned, that were 10 years old at times. No issue on any of that
Watching canned goods bought or homemade that sit on my pantry shelf - I make sure the new goes behind the old and I make sure were eating those items. If something not getting eaten, it's time to think "is this something only 1 person likes? or do we all dislike it? " Once something get's opened and put in the fridge I mark on the container the day it was opened, that best buy date goes out the window - now were dealing with expiration. You always share the best info 🥂
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To rotate my dry goods, I cook them for my chickens and buy new. Got a great deal on 50# of black beans. My oldest beans are 8 years old. Cook a big pot of older beans every week, leftovers goes for the chickens.
This next week is a busy garden week. Meal plan is burger patties, homemade pimento cheese, eggs, & peanut butter (sustenance).
Organization is key! I started storing food before I had a place to store it. It was in boxes stacked in the same room but I could not see how much I had or would forget what I had and buy more. So when I finally found time to build pantry shelves and get organized I found food that did not get rotated and excess cans. So if you’re going to be storing think about what you need to feed your family and have storage in place to start putting it away so you can see what you got. Quarterly inventory what you have make a list of what you need to restock. This will keep you from running out help you save money with sales and never run out of something you might need. It will also help you plan to use what you have and also build a better idea of what you need for a year for your family.
I have a system that works for me. Preplanning is not part of it. But I can throw food together and it comes out great. My best friend needs a recipe to cook, and you really don't want to eat it after she's done. But she's honest about her cooking skills.
Also, if you live in 120 degree Arizona without ac, MOVE! LOL! 😂
Great tips Leisa ! In raising our 5 children I found being flexible a must with running our home. I also was an organized list maker . Now with 12 grandchildren i find myself busier than ever. Retirement isn’t for those weak in heart. I’m so busy I don’t know how I ever had time to work . Thank you Leisa !
Hi Leisa, this is such a blessing. I appreciate this valuable information. It's always good to brush up on pantry information so we can all have the healthiest pantries. That'll help ensure that we have the least waste.
Glad it was helpful!
With dairy I find that once you open it, it goes bad quicker. Really good tips Leisa.
My husband think best by dates came from the Bible. He takes them out and I put them back, lol.
Scratch over them with a dry erase marker and see if you can remove the ink.
My ex-husband was the same way, only the opposite He also claimed the Bible. I was not allowed to throw any food until he deemed it uneatable. I would throw bad food in the trash and he would get it back out and eat it Moldy bread, slimy lunchmeat, I have never seen a person eat so much bad food when we have enough.. Manna from Heaven. Gross, that is why he is my ex after 21 years.
😂😂😂 Oh, that made me laugh
LOL!! I have an adult son who won't eat anything past the BB date. One time, his wife and I etched out a number on the year of several cans of fruit. He ate it. We didn't tell. He didn't die. We giggled together over the whole thing!
@@nomopms1 Qualifier, "he didn't die" 😁😁
I love the color coding idea! ♥️💙💚💛💜
I love the shelf stable milk 2% and rice milk. Lasts so long on shelf and once opened it lasts up to a week or two in fridge. Just recently found half and half and heavy cream in carton for shelf. I’m so glad wow made whipped cream without placing heavy cream in fridge. I opened it and whipped in a bowl and used it for coffee and desserts. Thank you for inspiring me and I just love your hairdo❤
Great video Leisa! I always research what the shelf life is AFTER expiration date. Then of course, sight, smell, tiny taste if it reaches that point.
When you showed canning mushrooms you changed my life! Mushrooms would go bad before I could use them all. I didn’t like the expensive store bought canned ones. Now I can have mushrooms anytime anyway I want them. Thank You!
I agree paper is best for tracking & more
You are so welcome!
Hello ! So glad you do this .
Me too!
I'm really glad you did this video. Was asking for one to be done
Glad I could help
I just used cream of celery soup that had a date of March 2022, it was just fine. I had 2 cases of evaporated milk that was going to expire so I put it in the freeze dryer and purchased a new case.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My system is modified-FIFO; Not necessarily by date bought but by best-by. Month/year best-by is added in Sharpie so can easily see to keep in order.
I had a lg head of cauliflower ate very little. Here goes cauliflower soup with spinach carrots onion celery spices cheese half and half. There you go delicious.
One thing I began this year, I take a marker and write B.B.dates on tops. I don't know if it's my eyes but some of those suckers are getting harder to actually see.
As for B.B. dates I use that as a notice to use these soon in a meal, expiration dates , I sniff it , generally if it's bad there is a weird odor.
I do meal planning and your right sometimes I say I don't want to do all that so I always come up with something good to make with what I have..
I just opened up a giant can of pumpkin that was 7 years past date, and it's perfectly fine. That was one of my mistakes, buying gigantic cans of pumpkin, since I don't eat much of it. It was on sale, so I went nuts and got 20 gallon sized cans, lol. I have three more to go. I tried donating it to a pantry, but they declined it because it was past date.
Pumpkin soup! My friend makes delicious soup from all squash
Make pumpkin loaf bread and put it in the freezer.Pumpkin pie in freezer. Pumkin muffins in freezer.Pumpkin cookies in freezer.Pumpkin butter canned in your canner.
Pumpkin butter, yum! Also I whisk pumpkin into my pancake batter and into the batter when I make French toast.
FYI, on a lot of things, especially cans and plastic bottles, the expiration dates come off by rubbing the printed date with paper towel and hand sanitizer. Just saying, someone in my house has date issues. As long as I keep them in rotation, it keeps the peace in the house.
Ignorance is bliss sometimes
@@SuttonsDaze it's that or a hammer. just sayin' lol
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Polish remover and a qtip works too:). I keep it in my kitchen:)
I just finished doing my pantry inventory using your project pantry book (I had to make copies of some pages, but I got it done).
My meal calendar is a lot like how you described. Chicken, lentils, sheet pan dinner, etc. It gives me focus, but also some leniency to decide how much effort I want to go to that day. "Chicken" could be a big production number or an easy pantry dinner of ugly chicken, rice, and frozen veggie casserole.
For some reason I ended up with lots of best by late 2023 cans. I am just making whatever food uses those ingredients (almost done). It seems I went on a kick of buying 6 cans at a time, which I won’t do again.
I write the month n year on my cans and jars i buy. Easier to see than their little writing. Big bold markers!
Thank-you for sharing.
My pleasure!
I use spread sheets… a sheet for each self with best buy dates plus how many of each date
and put dates on top of cans/jars so i use oldest first
I reinventiry every month I mark off things as i use them and add to shopping list
i dont have to worry about keeping like things together because i can look up the location
Food for thought , I love it , Thank you Leisa
You're so welcome!
I'm so happy you did this video. I think we could all use this information. Best buy and used by foods are still good. Thank you so so much ❤
You are so welcome!
You can make an easy cheese out of expired milk (whole, non pasteurized preferred, but store bought milk works just fine).
Using what i have on hand a i turned a dot grid journal i got for chriatmas into my preps notebook
Inventory of pantry , one page is a list of close dated or "out of best by date" foods and a list of family favorite meals . I told my son and husband its my #leisamademedoit book 😂
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Wow. This is timely. I was cleaning a storage closet and found a case of miscellaneous freeze dried meats purchased in 2001. Number 10 cans. I’ve been staring at them for a week. Whadda ya think? Good? Toss ‘em?
The best buy date should be stamped on the cans. Freeze-dried meats usually last a solid 30 years. Probably longer.
Probably still good, but open a can and use it--or not, depending on what it looks/smells like.
PECTIN: You can test if that mystery stuff is indeed pectin, or if your older pectin is still good. All you need is some fruit juice and some denatured alcohol. You can find the instructions on the internet :) It works for regular pectin, but I'm not sure if it'll work for Pomona's if thats what you think might be in the jar.
I meal plan in pencil, on the kitchen calendar. Pencil because it's always subject to change, kitchen calendar because that way everyone in the house can see it and stop asking "what's for dinner tonight?" (Not that it actually stops people asking me lol)
Thanks. This is a hard thing to do.
😊 no surprises in the pantry.. We all have them & always will, but yes, inventory works!
Expiration dates are a regulatory suggestion. If you are properly storing your food in a climate control situation, you should be just fine for a very long time You need to always check your food no matter what to make sure it looks right, smells right and tastes right.
Trail and error for me, trust ur nose, eyes and taste buds and whatever experience and knowledge you have. Until covid I bought items once a month and mostly consumed what was bought within a month. And then I started prepping and accumulating food, had to change the way I stored and consumed. Started a log and the location of the food. Then I read, research and keeping logs I was able to keep up. I rotate as much as I can and again trust my senses, now I know boxed milk is only good for a year, after that it separates and clot, also I realized can and powdered milks is best for me for long storage! Things like crackers don't last more than three months fresh, they get stale but I crush them and recycle them as breadcrumbs for meats! One thing I don't ever buy anymore are cake cups or any baking goods already made, within weeks they get dry or develop mold, so instead I buy cake, bread and biscuits mixes, these last probably months or years! Remember to store any ingredients you need to make anything from boxes, packs and bags of food (cakes: eggs, water, milk, butter!) and so on. Practice makes almost perfect 😉 research makes you aware and help you do and make the right choices! 👍💯
Great video. I went to Kroger Thursday… almost no beef!! They had roast on sale. Said the truck just came and would be an hour before he could unload.
I use a magic marker and write be by date on front and top of can.
My meal plan is pull out about 4 meats of some sort & put in a tray in the fridge. Whatever is thawed 1st is what I prepare. I worry about how to fix it the day I use it & what needs to be used in the fridge.
I got the job of clearing out my mother in law's pantry. Do you know how long it takes for a can of Campbells Cream of Mushroom Soup to totally dehydrate in the can and become a hard ball that rattles in the tin? About 10 years! I won't even mention about the stuff she had in her two (2) chest freezers. On a whim I took out a package of frozen appetizer "treats" and heated them up. They smelled and tasted toxic (I did not swallow). That was when I checked the best before date. Okay, she lived through the depression and WWII, but that is not food management, it is hoarding for the sake of hoarding.
How do you meal
Plan for cook outs? Long term.
How do you plan Canuary out of your freezer. To can do you don’t freeze something too long. Rotation of freezer meals.
If you have something frozen meat and it is getting close to expire does canning it extend the age or food expiration? Or is the expiration the same?
I read on Martha Stewart's web page, that 18 month's after the sell by date, when the food starts breaking down and the minerals, are depleted, so that's what I've stuck with for me. But, I have opened cans that just a couple of month's past the best by date, we're runny, the crream in the mushroom soup, was broke down it was just awful so check and rotate often. 😊
Not keeping things beyond their expiration date is a wise course. My mother grew up in the depression and hanging on to stored food in cans was part of her emergency storage supply. Unfortunately, after she passed away we had to go through what she had packed away in 30 gallon trash cans inher garage. Let me tell you exploding cans of processed food is not something you want to experience. There is such a difference between what my mom did with the best intentions and what Lisa recommends so please pay attention and store your canned goods and other goods properly rotating as needed and practical.
I have Leisa's project pantry planner. It is really good. Tip- use pencil...inventory always changes.
Great tip
In my grandson's kindergarten class they laminate their worksheets for the alphabet and then use a dry erase marker. That way they can use the pages over with using a paper towel. That way we can update our inventory sheets and keep them neat.
It might help me if you would go through your planner and help us understand how it works. Cover up what you don’t want people to see. That has helped me so much with my yearly planner.
FIFO means first in first out.
I learned that working at a military day care when ex was in the military. ,
I we’ll smell milk if it’s been in there awhile and take a tad taste. I check.
I check cans for dents, rust and bulging out cans. I’m aware of what if on dry goods . I check dry goods often. Like bread crumbs, flour and sugar and so forth .
When opining canned foods like canned vegetables, canned tomato products I check and smell. Examen food.
I check meat for freezer burn. Not as often as I should but I do check. I check for mice and so on and so forth. I’m careful as I know how to be. I wash hands often and wash sink out always. Not perfect but try w by en it comes to food safety.
I use recipes to a T only for baking . Mostly. I use a recipe mainly for remembering ingredients and not so much how to make it. Unless I’ve never made it.
Make a list of 10 dinners/meals that your family likes to eat. Have those things on hand. That means you would only eat each of those meals 3 times within a month.
Can you taste the pectin? If you have one that is already labeled you can see if they taste the same.😊
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My soured cream becomes sour cream...my soured milk goes into making pancakes, etc.
What is rule of thumb on expiration dates for your items you can?
Depends, meats are good for years, pickles are good for literally a year in my experience
You want to hear something disgusting that I have just learned about today, rich influencers are using food for decoration instead of eating it. Some wedding planners are doing the same thing. Orange slices & flowers for chair ties etc. The weirdest one was garlands of strung up tomatoes. Not dried either, all fresh food. You know that will then get thrown away.
Sad
Think about all the food that's demonstrated on TV food channels after it sits under hot studio lights. I'm sure it all goes to waste. 40% of all foodstuffs in the US get tossed. Very, very sad.
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I also know someone that will throw food out on the expiration date
When you are making up meals/recipes as you go and you are adding this and that, write down what you are adding. That way, if your family loves it, you will be able to recreate it. I have made things and not remembered what I did and was not able to make it again the same way. If it isn't something you don't want again, simply throw away the recipe.
Sounds good!
I have binders for recipes with protective sleeves for recipes so they don’t get ruined and the binders ( 4 ) can hold lots of information as well as recipes.
Spices in my house don’t expire
Been a whole lot of teaching going on here
A little bit of alcohol on a paper towel will delete expirations most of the time.