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?
Don’t eat that. Just don’t.
You know better and you’ve been warned. :)
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.
Yeah, I’d eat it. It’s in date, which are notoriously over careful anyway. It’s just a little brown.
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