The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Food & crafts => Food processing => Topic started by: Mel on October 04, 2012, 03:32:01 pm
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Hello,
This seems a really silly question about freezing your own produce.Now,when you may have purchased something processed and it has a use by date,well how does this really apply to home things.
I have been tidying a chest freezer and found some Courgette and dill soup-dated 2009!(ok,it was at the very very bottom :D) I thought I should really throw it out,however,upon opening it and taking it from the container,it smells like the day I made it! no,I have not yet ;) but it was really very :yum: :yum: :yum: beforehand. Today I have also found some of last years runners and,I really must get on and use those trotters up :yum: :yum: :yum: :yum:lol!
I just sometimes wonder how long things really last, if not provoked by packaging details or the throw away society that we live in?!
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Be interested in official answer - but I'd eat it if it smelt fine. (Mind you my son did say I was like a goat yesterday!!!). I trust most of these kind of decisions to my eyes and nose.
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I trust most of these kind of decisions to my eyes and nose.
Me too :thumbsup: but I am always just a teensy bit more wary when it comes to meat products :-\
But veggie stuff should be fine.
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I keep using my veg til it tastes horrible ::) Runner beans tend to last only a couple of years before they are less tasty. For the soup, as above - if it tastes fine then give it a go. Make sure you boil it through for 10 mins.
For meat I have frozen straight from the carcase, then I would eat it from the bottom of the freezer. Last year I found some venison like that, with a thin layer of freezer burn over the surface, but underneath it was lovely. I made it into a stew, having cut off the freezer burnt bit - it was tasty and we survived ;D
Our own sheep would never be wasted and are often a couple of years old or so before I find them. As long as they have been well packaged and the packaging hasn't been damaged I don't see why they can't be eaten. Mammoth has lasted a whole lot longer than a couple of years and is still edible, if somewhat tough 8) 8) 8)
I expect I will now be arrested by the food police :innocent:
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Great answers,Thank you! I did end up trying the courgette and dill soup last night and it was still really nice,and i'm ok today with no funny tummy ;D
I would use the meat if there was any left :-\,but I am funny with fish,which I love,I know you should be careful with it.I do have lots of veg in there though.
"I expect I will now be arrested by the food police :innocent:"
:D :D :D