Today, I threw out all the food in the freezer that my mom had been keeping since 2013. When she found out, she said, "frozen food doesn't go bad." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I cleaned out the fridge for my mother. I didn't throw out a single thing that was less than a month past its expiration. Instead of thanks, she complained about everything that I threw away being still good, including a tub of butter that had been expired for two years. FML
Today, my mother decided to inform me that she doesn't believe canned food can have an expiry date and that the food is still okay to eat years after the 'supposed' expiry date. She's probably been cooking my dinner with expired food for over 17 years. FML
Today, my mom decided to clean out my freezer. She freaked out over a box of unbelievably expensive King crab legs that expired over five years ago. My PTSD kicked in and I explained that I got them for a special occasion three days before my girlfriend was diagnosed with lung cancer. I never got that special occasion. I hate me. FML
Today, I found out that my mom is doing a study and is keeping used pads in the freezer. FML
Today, I decided I would eat healthy in order to lose weight. Feeling powerful, I threw away all of the icecream in my freezer. An hour later, I picked the icecream carton out of the garbage and ate the entire half-melted carton. FML
Today, I found out where the puddle in the basement came from. I thought the freezer was broken, but no. My mom is running what can only be called a death camp for vegetables in there. She buys them, then forgets about them until they turn liquid. FML
Today, my mom got angry that I moved stuff in the freezer, and banned me from even opening it in future. I’m in my 30s, I fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now I've lost freezer privileges. FML
Today, my grandmother has been complaining that I spend too much on food, so I started cooking food from scratch. I happily showed her my recipe book and encouraged her to try a few. She then mocked me for wasting time by not buying frozen food. FML
Today, after I cleaned out the fridge of things that expired months ago, my roommate got angry and insisted upon pulling all the moldy dairy products out of the garbage and putting them back because "they weren't mine and I shouldn't throw out other people's food." FML
Today, surprisingly, my roommate made a nice meal. Within an hour, I started throwing up. When I confronted her, she confessed that she'd used long expired ingredients, including meat, because she didn't want the garbage men to think she's "the type that wastes food." FML
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Top comments
praahe 10
She's right. As long as the food isn't opened and directly exposed to the cold air to get freezer burn, it won't go bad.
MyS3lf 24
While I'm sure your intentions were good, unless it's your house and your groceries that you paid for with your own money, that wasn't your call and it's not cool that you did that. If she cooks something you think is questionable, you don't have to eat it. It's that simple.
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Comments (47)
MrEpicSqueaky101 18
Depends what you have and what packaging it has. We still have frozen vegetables and stuff from 2007 and other stuff from that time that is still pretty good. Granted the quality lacks but still good enough to eat.
goodread2200 10
For all of those with an opinion - this is from the FDA website "Because freezing 0° F (-18° C) keeps food safe indefinitely, the following recommended storage times are for quality only." You can google it yourself.
Kurliez408 32
I was cleaning the freezer and found products expired in 2009....
ohnoyoudidnot000 0
Haha sucks next time put the dates on all the bags when you freeze them so you know what spoiled and what's still good! Funny though !
jvanevery 19
depends on the type of freezer you have frost-free freezers in most modern refrigerators warm up the interior of the freezer to 50 degrees Fahrenheit about once a week that's how they stay frost-free if you're using a chest freezer that doesn't defrost then it's probably safe for a very long time
Artures_way1 23
my father is the same... It doesn't taste good :(
aricababyy 22
sounds literally exactly like my mom
PapiiChuloo 4
Lets focus one the real question. Who freezes something thinking they might want to eat it years later? I dont think it's that serious that you need to freeze some vegetables to have for dinner a decade later.
Nikitasue92 7
People who stockpile or hunt game. An elk lasts a long time.
barleyguy 17
oddly enough the same thing happened at my moms house too. my brother and sister who still live there threw out meat up to 5 years old and she wasn't happy
epiccrazy 15
When I visited my parents a few months ago, I found a lunchable in the fridge and thought it would be a good snack. While I was eating it, I started to wonder why my Mom would even have a lunchable. It occurred to me that my cousins had a kid and they visited a few years back. I checked the expiration date, 2012. It tasted normal. I no longer trust lunchables and yes, I can relate to a mother who thinks if it's refrigerated or canned, it doesn't go bad