Items you never finish but continously buy? (1 Viewer)

[Gally]

Way too much meat goes bad and gets thrown out in our house.  My wife will buy meat for 2 or 3 nights of real home made meals per week.  Without fail, on one or two of those nights we'll have something come up that prevents us from making those meals.  The meat sits until it goes bad because no one ever does anything with it.

If it was something easy like chicken breasts or burger patties, I could grill them quick and eat them over the next day or two.  But she always gets roasts, or some strange cut I'm not familiar with and can't cook quickly.

You can freeze the meat to use later.  Or get a sous vide machine and cook it that way and then freeze it.  Then it is already cooked ready to be seared once you thaw it.  Saves on prep time. 

 

[Don Quixote]

Sadie's Hot Salsa -- I like spooning some onto eggs or into beans, or mix with avocado for a quick and dirty guac.  But it gets moldy within a few weeks of opening it, and usually have to toss before I can finish any one of them.  I still get 12 packs of them shipped to me.

 

[Pipes]

Produce in general.  Have good intentions at the supermarket but never get through all the berries, grapes, bananas, apples, etc… that I'm planning to eat in a perfect world.   

 

[Galileo]

Keep it in the refrigerator and it will be fine for several weeks.

It may not mold as quickly, but the refrigerator dries it out and makes it taste stale.  

 

[Juxtatarot]

It may not mold as quickly, but the refrigerator dries it out and makes it taste stale.  

I have not noticed this.  I've had loaves of bread in the refrigerator for about a month.  I would recommend keeping the bread wrapped in the plastic it comes in.

 

[Bull Dozier]

I have not noticed this.  I've had loaves of bread in the refrigerator for about a month.  I would recommend keeping the bread wrapped in the plastic it comes in.

Agreed, as we buy two loaves (Sam's club) and put one in the fridge.  Never any issues with taste or texture, but that's probably due to the preservatives.  I can't comment if fresh bakery bread reacts differently to refrigeration.

 

[Osaurus]

Super Glue.  Don't need a lot of it and then when you go back to use it again it is all dried out and hard to get to.  Maybe get a second use if you are able to get it flowing again.

They make single use tubes these days fwiw.

 

[NutterButter]

Joe Rogan podcasts.   First 30 minutes are usually great, but there's no way I can listen to 3 hours.  

 

[NutterButter]

guac

never totally finish the container. then when I'm doing tacos again i just buy a fresh container 

Love guac, but that stuff lasts like a day once you open it.   The little single serving containers, though a terrible value, prevent a lot of waste.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

They make single use tubes these days fwiw.

Yes, I've seen multi packs of tiny tubes meant for one use only.

 

[Major]

I have not noticed this.  I've had loaves of bread in the refrigerator for about a month.  I would recommend keeping the bread wrapped in the plastic it comes in.

Or just buy Ezekial bread frozen.  Lasts forever and much healthier.  

 

[Ned]

Pretty sure in the thousands of pens I have used in my life I have never gotten to the end of one.

I don't eat mustard but my family does. Seems like every 4 months we are throwing out a half consumed jar and replacing with another.

Probably bought 10 chaptstic tubes my whole life. I'd be shocked if I used any 1 tube more than 4 times.

Trader Joes alkaline water

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Jarred horseradish

I always buy a jar to make cocktail sauce , and it’s always brown when I go to make it again 

 

[E-Z Glider]

Jarred horseradish

I always buy a jar to make cocktail sauce , and it’s always brown when I go to make it again 

This is a good one. I also believe it loses its "potency" after a while in the fridge. Another reason I prefer a fresh jar when I need it.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Super Glue.  Don't need a lot of it and then when you go back to use it again it is all dried out and hard to get to.  Maybe get a second use if you are able to get it flowing again.

I get the one that comes in a little plastic jar that looks kind of like a nail polish jar and comes with it a brush applicator like nail polish. Have had my current jar over a year and it's still good. 

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Milk. It's just the wife and I. We buy a whole gallon and we usually don't quite finish all of it before it goes bad bur if we buy a half gallon it's gone in 3 or 4 days so we usually just get a gallon. 

Buy organic. I don't buy much organic stuff, but I do get organic milk. Mainly because I was tired of pouring out so much milk every week. Organic costs a couple bucks more but is good for 3-4 weeks. 

 

[NutterButter]

Buy organic. I don't buy much organic stuff, but I do get organic milk. Mainly because I was tired of pouring out so much milk every week. Organic costs a couple bucks more but is good for 3-4 weeks. 

I thought i remember reading something about the half gallons lasting longer b/c they're not exposed to light.  I could just be making that up.  I've seen some organic half gallons that had an expiration almost 2 months out.   

 

[comfortably numb]

Trader Joes alkaline water

Shhhhhh

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Something named after Al Kaline must be good.

 

[shuke]

Super Glue.  Don't need a lot of it and then when you go back to use it again it is all dried out and hard to get to.  Maybe get a second use if you are able to get it flowing again.

2 part epoxy is your friend.

 

[urbanhack]

2 part epoxy is your friend.

Is he on Facebook?

 

[Tony Jabroni]

Agreed, as we buy two loaves (Sam's club) and put one in the fridge.  Never any issues with taste or texture, but that's probably due to the preservatives.  I can't comment if fresh bakery bread reacts differently to refrigeration.

I love fresh bakery bread, but it is useless after 2-3 days. Hard. I love buttered bread with my dinner, but you can really only eat about 2 at a pop.

 

[DallasDMac]

2 part epoxy is your friend.

Loved his latest album.

 

[Da Guru]

I love fresh bakery bread, but it is useless after 2-3 days. Hard. I love buttered bread with my dinner, but you can really only eat about 2 at a pop.

Where do you think restaurants get their croutons?

 

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