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Restore home economics to school, along with reasonable lunch time and recess. People think packaged food is more convenient or cheaper. Cooking from scratch i
by spodek 7y ago
Restore home economics to school, along with reasonable lunch time and recess.
People think packaged food is more convenient or cheaper. Cooking from scratch isn't more expensive or time consuming. Not knowing how to cook and shop is expensive and time consuming.
Here's a great guideline for "best by" and other dates: if the product has one, don't buy it. I don't think I've bought a product with one in several years.
- phonypc 7y ago>Here's a great guideline for "best by" and other dates: if the product has one, don't buy it. I don't think I've bought a product with one in several years. This doesn't make sense to me unless our locales differ greatly in labelling practices. Virtually everything but fresh produce comes with a date. Even independent butcher shops close the wrapping paper with a date sticker.
- spodek 7y agoI challenged myself to avoid packaged food for a week. It went so well that I continued, in the process learning to cook from scratch. I was surprised to learn that it took less time, cost less, tasted better, and led me to see packaged food as unnecessary. I wrote a bunch of posts on it since I felt my ignorance and inexperience kept me from a better life and wanted to make the experience available to others http://joshuaspodek.com/avoiding-food-packaging-2 http://joshuaspodek.com/avoiding-food-packaging-2
- NoodleIncident 7y agoBottled water has an "expiration" date. You must live somewhere with vastly different regulations.