Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Don't know if that meat in your fridge is safe to eat anymore?


If you have questions about how long food lasts and how to safely prepare it, you are not alone. Most Americans have been misinformed about proper food safety practices (including myself). As college students, we are away from home, where mom may have done all the cooking and taken care of the safety of our foods.

Well, now it's our responsibility to learn and food safety and create habits that are going to keep us healthy without our parents' supervision. As always, there are great websites that have all the information you will need to keep your food safe to eat. FightBac is a great and easy to use website with all kinds of information, and also resources to teach kids food safety. FoodSafety.gov is the parent site for FightBac and is easy to use. So remember to "FightBac" when you're preparing food!

2 comments:

  1. If it's a question...you already know the answer! Don't risk it is my motto. Yeah meat is expensive and we don't want to waste it, but so is missing school and work being sick from eating bad meat.
    Best bet is to buy it right before you're going to eat it or freeze it until you're ready to cook it.

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