Posted on 03/31/2010 11:29:42 AM PDT by Dallas59
Has anyone shopped at a Salvage Grocery store? They sell dented canned goods, expired/best if sold by foods, slow/no sell foods. I've heard you can save a bunch. Is it safe to buy food from there? Just asking...thanks.
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ALDI’s pastas are quite good, they also have some interesting imported candies.
What about their “light and fit” variety, in terms of calories?
I certainly would agree with you on the quality of the Aldi products. Their produce is of throw-away quality and the frozen sea food is from China. If the store is over a month old the filth will be very noticable. Aldi’s...no thanks, I’d rather take my changes dumpster diving.
I’m currently eating canned foods, canned juices and single serving oatmeal packets that are seven years old.
Seven years is no big deal except that this food was in a shed in the New Mexico desert, so it was in the worst possible conditions. The temperatures probably easily ranged from 120, to below freezing and some of the cans seemed to have burst from freezing.
While I play around with long stored foods, for instance I just made a box of Betty Crocker Banana Nut Bread that was 4 years out of date, and I didn’t have the required egg (it turned out OK), what I learned from those desert stored cans was that some of the products had picked up the metallic taste and I probably won’t use all of the items like the collard greens and green beans.
Because of the freakishly bad conditions my cans were stored in, the information is not very useful to you guys, but it has convinced me even more that consistent, room temperature storage would have kept everything fine for much longer than 7 years.
The oatmeal packets were fine except for a couple of the flavored ones that had cream flavor, that was a little off. The oldest canned food that I have eaten was some 25 year old, garage stored, civil defense cabbage that was still very edible.
If you eat rice daily, a hundred pound bag isn't going to last long enough to spoil, LOL
Shopping with coupons works but the best advantage with cost comes with the most highly processed foods.
The closer you buy to raw natural foods, coupons have less utility.
Works the best on hygeine, laundry and cleaning supplies.
Leave it sitting around in an unairconditioned environment in FL and I guarantee you it won’t last six months.
Unless possibly you store it in airtight cans or the freezer.
LOL!!!
Absolutely correct. I brought it up as a “saving money on food” adjunct. I was quite surprised at the savings this guy was able to generate. $500 a month is kind of like an all-in car payment on something modest.
While we’re on the subject, does anyone know the practical shelf life for militray MREs? (assuming they’ve been properly stored, and never frozen)
Many thanks.
It is normally best to keep storage foods in dark cool conditions with temps between 45-65 --- yet as Ansel mentions in this thread, even food stored in a shed in the Arizona sun lasted them 7 years.
Here in Cali it’s Grocery Outlet as well. I stock up with lots of can goods that have dates of years ahead (and keep rotating) as well as TP and cleaning products. Saves me lots of money. Their frozen food aisles have some great bargains as well and some of it in very large bags. Cheeses are cheap and have some I’ve never heard of. Only problem is, find something you don’t see in regular markets and buy one to try, really like it, go back and never see it again.
Thanks everybody!
Many thanks!
Yeah. Why bother with that stuff when you can get mint condition products FREE or almost free. In fact, I am out the door right now to pick up FREE Prevacid.
We go there every week or 2 and stock up..Finally we are getting an Aldies in Indiana Pa..home of Jimmy Stewart!!!
Exactly, that’s the deal. You cannot plan on going in there to buy a certain brand of something.
But like me if you think “Well, I’ll go in and stock up on canned meats...” or whatever and are open to trying stuff you never tried, you can find some damn good deals!
Also on the sundries and paper products.
In the summer they have really good buys on bulk fruit (apples, oranges, grapefruit), and watermelon the cheapest I can find in this area. The closest one is about 30min away but it’s well worth my time to go. And, I always find a flavor of ice cream that is not found in other store I frequent.
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