Comments on: How Long Foods Stay Fresh In Fridge

ShopSmart Magazine's Lisa Lee Freeman Gives Fridge Shelf-Lives Of Many Common Items

[chochollyk]

I live alone and currently have no income; I'm living off savings. I guess I am going to have to eat ALL my meals AND SNACKS out.....
To think that my mother left a cooked roast or ham or stew sitting out ALL DAY SUNDAYS for us to just graze on throughout the day... She and my father lived to be in their 70's, my brothers and I have lived to see our 50's and 60's so far...
Okay, off I go to throw away the entire contents of the refrigerator so I don't get sick or die prematurely... ohhh, maybe I should sell the refrigerator, so I can afford more of that fast food I'll be eating forever until death do us part... now there's some food that should be investigated!!!!!!

[dzfromsc]

It is obviouis that some of you are idiots. These are recomendations to help you be safe about your eating habits. Yes, sauce can last longer but to be safe, 5 days. Some of you need to get some common sense.

[advnewaya]

Just passing through and couldn't help, but "lmao" at the idiotic comment of "gucci805"!!
They start out by saying something about "common sense",and then their entire post is done IN ALL CAPS, which always tells me........... "This person, is "really trying to say"........"Ohhhh! Ohhhhh!!!Mista' Kahta! Looke at me, ohhhh Mista Kahta....look at me, please! I always enjoy reading a post, that's done is all caps, because it makes that person, posting, 9 out of 9 times, look really stupid, twice!

[tkilljoy]

I have a simple question for the author:

where's your decreased life expectancy to corroborate this attempt at scaring the hell out of your readers/make more people waste more money?

it's practically a hobby in our home to take a lil gamble with the undercooked meats and the slightly stanky cheese.

wait, sorry, our cheese comes from mold to begin with, almost forgot. still, the bleeding meat, big time meal around here, has been in our family for.. centuries..

we're still hittin' the 70s and 80s for age.

[sjw1253]

For all of you disbelievers... CBS is reporting this because it is finally gaining greater scientific validation.

You may be able to give case reports of "people who grew old" eating mold - but you have to realize that there is a huge difference between the life expectancy since the depression and now (that is higher).

Also, remember that there are always stories of Grandpa living to be 90 and smoking 5 packs of cigarettes a day... Look at all of the ones who die from lung cancer or suffer disabling emphysema for years and dying sooner with that disease as well. Look at how long cigarette smoking was said to be not bad for your health.

It is clear that there are markers in a person's blood that makes them more likely to respond poorly to mold than others. There is a tremendous amount of research - and the fact is that mold is deadly and there are many studies that are actually linking mold to such diseases as cancer.

Keep you ears open as the studies are gaining greater merit and are being validated scientifically.

Don't say I didn't warn you (and no - I am not the author or any relation... just someone who has been affected and not yet found the cause of the mold - and guess what - there are tests that can determine if you suffer from mold toxicity)

[linfinster]

5 days for pasta sauce?? Ha ha! I have had mine for over a month and never has a problem. It's those bulk, save money concepts ... I can never finish those thing and end up throwing it away ... yeah great savings!! lol

[linfinster]

5 days for pasta sauce?? Ha ha! I have had mine for over a month and never has a problem. It's those bulk, save money concepts ... I can never finish those thing and end up throwing it away ... yeah great savings!! lol

[gucci805]

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO PLAIN COMMON SENSE? IF IT'S GREEN, CUT IT AWAY--IF IT STINKS, THROW IT AWAY. THIS IS THE DUMBEST ARGUMENT YET FOR THE TREE HUGGERS---GET A LIFE--IF YOU DON'T WANT TO EAT REAL FOOD, STAY AWAY FROM IT---DON'T TRY TO SCARE ALL THE NEWBIES INTO BELIEVINMG YOU KNOW EVERYTHING. YOU DO NOT---JUST ASK YOUR GRANDPARENTS--OR YOUR PARENTS--IF THEY HAVE SURVIVED OUIR DECADENT WAYS.

[titoplenty]

Danny Baldwin takes a piece of scotch tape and puts it across the use/sell by date on his food and writes "DRUGS" on it then immediatly shoots it into his arm...thereby making this whole article moot.

[citizenusa-2009]

I'm getting very hungry, but I looked in the fridge and just found a note signed by "you know who". It said, "I've eaten your food and am now headed to the hospital to have my stomach pumped. Because the procedure is so painful, they will have to give me DRUGS!" Wooooo Hoooooo!" I mean..Sincerely yours.