Would You Eat This To Save Money?
July 17th, 2008
OK, here’s my predicament: we’ve been really careful planning what we were going to eat this week, to prevent the usual thing that happens in the wind-down to the weekend - resorting to takeaway food.
However, I’ve just gone to start a spag bol, and have found the mince looking a little less than healthy:
Normally, it should be a nice pinky-red colour shouldn’t it, but I don’t know whether the brownness is something to worry about?
So the question is, should I ignore the way it looks and just cook it, or should I go on my instincts and resign myself to having to spend money on something else? What would you do? How far should we go to be frugal?
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4 Comments on “Would You Eat This To Save Money?”
devil, July 17th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Don’t eat that. Just don’t.
You know better and you’ve been warned. :)
Early Retirement Extreme, July 17th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Being frugal, I don’t tend to eat a lot of meat in the first place, but I would eat it. It is not past the expiry date. Color is not a good indicator of spoilage, nor does it affect the taste, merely that it has been exposed to oxygen over a time period (so color indicates age!). The thing that would worry me was if the package was ballooning/puffy, then I wouldn’t get it.
jon, July 18th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Yeah, I’d eat it. It’s in date, which are notoriously over careful anyway. It’s just a little brown.
JF, July 24th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I won’t
Some say “you are what you eat” …
I usually don’t try to save too much on food. You can save a lot by avoiding the takeaway but you don’t neccessary have to buy/eat bad quality thing
