A trick I use on milk, cream and a Aryan (Mediterranean yogurt drink) is downsize to smaller containers. I use mason jars with the plastic lids. If a gallon, sometimes I will just go ahead and divided it in to 4 quart jars, but at least when a quart is gone from the gallon, divided to three quarts. As the quart gets to half, down to a pint. I've had milk last for two months doing this. As with everything stored, in this case in the fridge, the less open space or air in the container, the slower the spoilage. I even downsize leftovers that go past one more meal.
We dont use a lot of milk, so it can stay in the fridge for a long time. Holiday baking season is the only time we run through milk without having to downsize to stretch the life of milk.
Another thing that can be done with milk that has reached that, "I dont think I want to drink this" stage is make
Paneer. You can add herbs, etc. to it that will mask that slightly off taste, which is actually more smell than anything.
Yep, your OP did kind of come off as you actually wondering. I was thinking, "I've seen you around here and you know what you are doing!".
That reminds me, its time for MRE testing. The primary foods in them are usually edible for many years past the use by date...if you can find that date, on real MRE's, at least in the past you have to learn to decipher the code on the box. I keep some as a prepper and every couple years go into each box, remove one meal pack and force myself to eat them...only because I hate throwing any nutrition away. They arent good for dieting because they are intentionally calorie packed.
Usually the candy and gum, etc. go bad first. Edible technically but unless you are starving, nobody wants to eat that. The main meals, cakes, crackers, cheese and peanut butter usually hang in there much longer. I even like to test the heater packs to see if they are viable still.
I noticed recently they are back available again now that the COVID Plandemic has passed. Might be time to start restocking/replacing. I DO have some of the dehydrated stuff, but I think people forget, you need a LOT of water for those. If the shiznit has hit the societal fan and the system goes down, water will be hard to come by for most people. I even have a ceramic candle filtration system. I can make drinking water from our rain barrels or the creek...or even retrieve well water from my old style bored well.
Anyway...went down the keyboard rabbit hole...thanks for the reminder!
Forgot to say, I DO bag my opened pasta if the whole box didn't get used. We dont eat a lot of pasta so an opened box can hang around for quite some time.
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