Is it normal to eat two week old leftovers?

Most of my leftovers are 1 1/2 to 2 weeks old. People say that you shouldn’t leave them in the fridge past day 4, but growing up my family always left them there for at least a week. I don’t get sick afterwards. I might feel a little weird depending on what it was, but that just seems normal to me.

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  • Ummitsstillme

    You're pushing it at a week. Max. Certain foods only have a few days. Just freeze to be frugal.

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  • SwickDinging

    Entirely depends on what it is, and how quickly it was stored.

    Some things will be fine for months, others will go bad within 24 hours.

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    • Binko

      It’s anything tbh. It could be spaghetti, pizza, ham, burgers, rice, chicken, etc

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    i consider it a challenge and a chore to eat everythin i buy at the grocery in a timely manner so as to avoid waste

    i go from salads & fresh greens to processed frozen crap over a 2 or 3 week cycle then restock

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    • SwickDinging

      My husband gets paid fortnightly so I do the same as you. I buy all of our food on payday and pretty much refuse to buy anything else until the next pay day. So we eat fancy salads with steaks and all that jazz at the start, and by the end it's 3 month old frozen lasagna with wilted, stinky spinach and a side of canned beans.

      I HATE food waste. I feel sorry my kids haha.

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

        i usually get nice ribeyes for first night after shoppin dinner i make a pan sear red wine reduction gravy with pureed onion garlic & a splasha soy & liquid smoke then finish the steaks on the grill hot & fast so theyre crusty outside & med rare inside

        its a nice lil tradition to make every couplea weeks and it hasta be that night cause the steaks turn quick

        delicious with fries on the side i gotta sample a bottle or two of the red wine for quality control

        that was last year though

        a reasonable sized ribeye costs like 24 fuckin dollars nowadays so fuck that

        just on principle alone im not payin more to cook a meal myself than it costs at a restaurant

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        • SwickDinging

          Jesus, why has the price of beef gone up so much?!

          I noticed that this year beef is less available than it used to be in the shops near me. I live in a part of the world where we do lots of beef farming and it's normally everywhere, so this is weird.

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  • litelander8

    Your immune system is probably used to it. I actually leave my leftovers in the microwave for 2 or 3 days instead of the fridge. I just hate cold leftovers.

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  • Somenormie

    Not normal because it might be on the verge in going bad ( as in food decomposition).

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  • Boojum

    Lots of factors determine if this is safe or not.

    Some commercially-produced chilled meals are good for a few weeks after manufacture, but those are produced in hygienic facilities, usually hermetically sealed (often with an inert gas filling the container), rapidly cooled and kept at the correct temperature while they're on the supermarket shelf. Your leftovers aren't treated like that, so spoilage is much more likely.

    Any sign of mould is obviously a bad thing, and cooked rice is notorious for culturing a bacteria that can cause very unpleasant food poisoning. (The spores on the uncooked rice can survive boiling and reheating doesn't destroy the toxins.)

    If you're young and healthy, you can probably shrug off a minor case of most food types of food poisoning, but you may find that this changes as you get older.

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    • Binko

      Yea we usually don’t see mold and my parents do it and they are fine. I’m guessing that it’s not as bad as people think

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  • RoseIsabella

    Do you want food poisoning? Trust me this sort of thing could very well land in the hospital.

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