As a mother of school age children I'm not afraid of finding science projects in the refrigerator. Heck, some aren't projects at all; they are some long lost and forgotten dinners. Our frig even has a death drawer. You might call yours the "vegetable bin." So it shouldn't have come as a surprise when I opened a lid containing what I thought was pudding. Sheesh, I only made it one day ago. Let's just say the color was something that you'd expect to find on your child's GI Joe-- the one that's been hiding out in the backyard dirt bunker for several monsoons. That brown/ green combo I was staring down at did not look anything like the delicious sugar-free chocolate fudge pudding photo on the box! Now really, it was only one day old. Recently I found some fungus community in the ricotta cheese hidden in the back of the frig that didn't look like that! Lest you think I made super old pudding, the box stated best used before 2/17/11. February! Only 8 months had passed. I thought we had at least until the end of the year to use it. Am I wrong? I've read the reports where you should throw away any kind of Bisquick- like product if the expiration date is over 2 years, but pudding too? And not even a year old? It's too much. So down the drain when the pudding and pout-y face went the strawberry. I really wanted some pudding but I didn't want it bad enough to sample that camouflaged concoction.
As I was still on my cooking high, I had already prepared a big crockpot full of chili. As Hubby walked through the front door, he cheered "Shepherd's Pie!" Boy heard that and cheered "Mashed Potatoes." Boy is really a hobbit. His favorite potato chant is "boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew." I am still limiting my starchy veggies and grains so I made enough for them-- 8 cups! During dinner, Hubby scrunched up his face and said "I think you should throw out that milk." What??? It's expiration date was 11/18/11.
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