What to eat first?
Recipe Introduction
This is not a recipe, rather, it is an example of what foods should be eaten first when arriving home from the food bank.
There are also some details on what you might NOT want to eat, such as 'blown tins'.
List of Ingredients
Instructions
- Lettuce that is chopped and in cello bags, the self contained 'salads' should be the first thing to tear open as they go bad rather fast, and are probably near t their best before date.
- Juice drinks should be inspected for their best before dates and speciality juices should be checked for mold since most contain no preservatives. If there is even the slightest odour of mold, TOSS IT!
- "Organic grown" foods are popular at the food bank, most probably because few people can afford to buy them and they are tossed out. Many of these are bulk packaged and are already moldy by the time you receive them. Again, take items out of packaging immediately as some might have mold on them and cannot be seen. Inspect each vegetable, fruit etc, do not let them lay in cello bags in the fridge. One moldy carrot can contaminate an otherwise good bag, as would one moldy lemon. If in doubt about when to eat, squeeze them into juice and store in the refrigerator, or add them to water as a flavoring agent
- Breads and buns if not eaten almost immediately, should be FROZEN and thawed out when needed.
- Cereal boxes, should be inspected for any tears in the packaging and TOSSED OUT if the inner wrapping is broken. I have had one box of stuff that was soaked in something and dried out. What the smell was from this liquid is not known, it could have easily fallen into a bucket of mop water and was retrieved and put back on store shelves to dry out.
- Freeze all ground meats since they are usually past their best before date, thaw out only what you need by microwave or in the fridge. Some of these meats may have been previously frozen, so do not keep them too long in a freezer. If you do not eat them within your alotted time. TOSS THEM!
- Never eat any foods that have been frozen and have a broken plastic seal on them. Shoppers could have done something with them and returned them to the shelves. Later on, the store personnel will mark them as second quality, not knowing what happened to the packaging.
- NEVER open a tin that has expanded as if exploding from inside, this is a sign of bochilism, a deadly food poisoning that can kill you almost immediately. The 'expanded can' is a sign of noxious gases given off by bacteria inside as it tries to escape the can and is unable to, so instead, it inflates the tin.
- BEWARE of canned beef from countries outside of North America such as South American tinned beef, some countries have failed to report the legitimacy of their Cattle herds, some beef are rumoured to be contaminated with 'Mad Cow disease'. The human 'variant' of this disease called Cruitzfeld-Jacob disease is incurable, it turns your brain into sponge. The virus can be killed when you apply 1700 degrees celsius heat to the meat. It is considered by some to be the next 'Aids' epidemic, some 80 people in England have died from it.
- ***TACO BELL BRAND TACO SHELLS***
In Sept 2000, it was discovered that some Taco Shells made by Kraft Foods contained the genetically engineered corn called "Starlink". Some 3 million packages of Taco Bell shells were recalled mostly from Safeway stores. There was also some Yellow corn flour that was removed from the market. The formula apparently came from a producer in Mexico who purchased Starlink corn. Starlink corn was genetically engineered to contain a natural pesticide for corn borers. It was never granted use for human consumption and recently some of this corn has found its way into Canadian ports (where it was eventually intercepted). The corn was never tested to be fit for human consumption, yet some was found mixed in the taco shells. The EPA has ordered that the feed corn not be planted any more, some 300,000 acres of the stuff was grown in the US last year.
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