How do you shop for groceries every two weeks?
Doesn’t bread go stale, milk go sour, chicken/beef/pork/eggs go spoiled, and fruits and veggies go moldy in two weeks? Where I live nobody enjoys yesterdays bread and we don’t cook meat or chicken if it’s been in the fridge for more than about five days.
Please explain how you’re able to do this, I would love not to have to shop for groceries every one or two days.
Freeze loaves in chest freezer
> milk go sour
Ultra-pasteurized milk cartons have a shelf life of months (some even unrefrigerated) when unopened. Once open, they need to be used within a week or so, but that is doable with 1.5 gallon cartons.
> eggs go spoiled
Not really. At least the ones we get here, can last a long while in the fridge. Easily a couple of weeks if not more.
> fruits and veggies
Some veggies can be frozen e.g. carrots. Others can be fried/roasted and then frozen. Fruits do go bad fast yes. Some of the fruits can be bought frozen as well.
> Where I live nobody enjoys yesterdays bread and
Frozen bread thawed at room temperature tastes surprisingly fresh IMO. And no, it's not the "flour-based product" you refer to. I have made home-made bread and frozen with no issues and then thawed it out later.
> we don’t cook meat or chicken if it’s been in the fridge for more than about five days.
I don't eat meat, but I think the answer is again a chest freezer that sits at -20 C or so. A 10 cu.ft freezer is super compact and cheap and can store a lot of food.
Between ultra-pasteurization, canning, freezing, dried food, and electricity, one of such families could stockpile nearly a year of food.
> Freeze loaves in chest freezer
This works (I do it with rye loaves I eat), but IMHO most folks in the US have lower standards for what is called "bread" than a lot of other cultures.
We also have those in Europa but I really hate driving to do groceries. It's just so inconvenient and too much hassle. I rather walk to the small shop daily than driving to the bigger one, which is maybe 3 km away.
Milk lasts for weeks in the store, same at your house (until you open it). I know in France milk is sold in bricks or bottles that aren't even refrigerated.
Most veggies can be frozen. And they weren't picked a couple days before you bought them, they can clearly last a long time.
Oh I see. We have the same word to designate different things. "Sliced bread" is no bread at all.
Bread keeps long enough, unfortunately thanks to preservatives. "Homemade" (can't believe that label is allowed on factory-made food here) bread lasts a little longer in the fridge. But all bread I know freezes well, so we thaw it when we're ready to it the loaf, and it's gone within a few days.
We also live in a dry climate in the mountain west. I don't think we could get away with this in a wet climate.
Bread keeps for a week, no problem, and when it's older than that and has started to go stale, it gets toasted for sandwiches.
But I typically go to grocery store weekly, because we eat a lot of produce in our house, and though I have some techniques to keep lettuce good for 1 to 2 weeks, some stuff spoils quickly.
Our eggs are refrigerated, they can keep for awhile in the fridge.
A flour based food, full of preservatives will keep for a week. Bread does not :-)
It does not claim to have any preservatives, but is provided in a plastic bag with a twist tie.
I'd be taking a long hard look at whatever this product is, and honestly a lot of the other stuff you may eat.
Mass produced food companies are not your friend. They want cheap stuff ebay keeps people happy. Health and well being wouldn't even make the list.
Of course it doesn't taste as good as freshly baked bread, but if it gets moldy only after a few days, it was already old or you didn't store it well enough.
Back in 2013 at least, the effort I had to go to in Houston to find bread without sugar, milk without sugar, and butter that was actually butter was insane. Let alone getting to eating out!
Our food is trash. Accept it. Move on. Quit being such a victim. You're making all of us look bad.
Bread tends to last two weeks in the fridge, but our bread isn't what I'd consider great bread. It's just for toast or sandwiches.
Eggs last a long time in the fridge, well beyond their best by dates.
Milk also lasts two weeks just fine.
Veggies are the hardest if they can't be frozen. We tend to go fresh veggie heavy the first week and frozen veggies the following weeks until we get to the store.
Most Europeans know what this is, calling it something like "toast bread". In Britain and Ireland it's the default bread, but in most other European countries it's only used for making cheap, toast-based things.
Everything is frozen, canned or full of preservatives.