Frugality taken too far?

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  1. Harry30

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    You are not trying hard enough. Ever tried ‘dumpster diving’.
     
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    Stand well back when you open it just in case it is off. A 50/50 chance that it expired a month or 2 ago. lol
     
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    Just ate some (boiling off the bone for soup, freezing cut up bits) ~ has been several hours - no bad effects yet :D Gotta say, with that much salt, nitries, nitrates and other preservatives in it, it probably stays "edible" out of the fridge for months.... :oops:

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    If you were a Muslim that would impress me more :)
     
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    I dont know if this called frugality, but i generally buy more of everything for a better price, and sometimes it backfires when food expires

    however, I always taste it and if its fine, I consume it regardless of how expired it is

    never been sick from it

    my record is 18 days over due milk
     
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  6. Eric Wu

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    That was seriously frugal

    Was the milk still in liquid formation?
     
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    Lol. It has turned to cottage cheese by then probably
     
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    I lived in a share house many years ago. There were 5 in the house, and we shared each other’s food in the fridge. Only realised some time later that one of the people in house didn’t buy his food, but got it from ‘dumpster diving’. Unbeknown to me, I had been eating a lot of food pulled out of a supermarket dumpster. Suffered no ill affects.
     
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    eeewww...... no that's called "testing the limits".....

    We always find ways of preserving (and ironically probably costs us heaps more!) ~ usually freezing (for meat, bread, any form of carbs) but we also:

    Ferment - fermentation actually preserves by creating an environment not suitable for bad bacteria. For instance, with milk, we have live kefir culture. It's interesting how the supermarket charges $6 for a liter of kefir, we just throw the culture into milk ($2.20 for organic full cream). Once the culture is in there and develops, the kefir can last well over a month. Also make sauerkraut and salted lemon when the respective contents are abundant/on special.

    Dehydration - was a great idea, and we have a you-beaut-super-expensive excalibur to prove how keen we were. It all happened when we picked up a huge sack of apples on super special (as you do).... some things we discovered:
    1. it takes a LOT of time to core and slice apples
    2. it takes a lot of electricity to dehydrate apples using a dehydrator....

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    So... lesson is... if you get so many apples at a great price its better to share the fresh apples with neighbours!
    There's a good chance you'll get back your generosity in abundance.
     
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    Actually the dried apples made tremendous gifts! :) People really appreciated it. It also makes relatively unpopular apples like granny smith taste great.

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    honestly, it was completely normal, tasted normal, no soldification, no smell,

    I believe that food just doesnt go off on the use by date, such as milk,

    sometimes milk for me goes off a few days before, but mostly a few days after,
    so for me Ido the smell test,

    I have had milk that was virtually off when I bought it from the supermarket and wasnt due to expire for a week!
     
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    Plenty of people live in caravans.... they're justing doing it on the water....

    I guess it's a great lifestyle choice if that's what floats your boat. As a purely financial decision it would be rather extreme.
     
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    Brilliant! :D

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  19. Harry30

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    Of course, if you can buy a PPOR and just pay off the loan, that really becomes the cheapest form of living. Pay the council rates (average $120/month), that’s it. Put a tank in for water. Power can be provided yourself quite easily. Do the maintenance yourself as long as you have a few tools.
     
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    I was in Wandiligong a few weeks back, apples and chestnuts at $3/kg at the farm gate (actually, a big coolroom with retail).

    There's a cider brewery attached (hmm, those apples were extra special)
     
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