help with food expiration

[Celidh]

I have worked in the food service industry for over 20 years.

Throw it out!

Lunch meat is only good a couple days once it has been opened. Just because food looks and smells and feels ok, doesn't mean that bacteria and other nasty stuff hasn't started to grow. Just ask my dad who had food poisoning and spent 3 days in the hospital for it. Yeah, the meat looked fine but...

Some things you can push it on but really is it worth possibly getting sick over to save a few dollars? I am a single mom who doesn't get much financial assistance from dad but I still would rather throw it out and buy new stuff than to risk getting sick or making my kids sick. I have also had food poisoning and so did my son when he was 3. It was not nice.

My solution for lunch meat is to repackage it myself when I buy it and freeze only enough for one or two sandwiches in each package. Or, if I am buying from the deli, I just ask them to package only a few slices each and freeze it. I know it is probably a pain in the a** for them but that is what they are there for.