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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John6185" data-source="post: 4118203" data-attributes="member: 25679">The way I look at it, if a lb of bacon is on sale and expires in a week, I buy it!  I put it in the freezer and it locks the date and if I pull it out in 2 months it' still edible.  Hamburger meat as long as it is frozen is good-any beef and if there is any freezer burn, I cut it off before cooking.Food is too costly to simply throw away because of an ambiguous date.When I was a kid and there was mold on the top of jelly, my mother would spoon it off and give us kids the jelly.  Same thing with cheese, cut off the mold and eat the good part.</blockquote>