[Magdalen] Flour query.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Take a good look at it. If some of it is moving under its own power,
probably a good idea to toss it.

Right now, you are just a few months outside of the guaranteed safe time
period. Odds are you're fine. If you examine it and it is all a fine
powdery substance, you're fine.

As with any and all foodstuffs, if you have any doubt, throw it away. How
much would a new bag of flour cost? It's certainly not worth getting food
poisoning. But it's also not necessary to throw it out when it is three
months out of date. That's nothing. I eat yogurt six months out of date and
never have any problems

(aside from the hallucinations and projectile ----STOP IT, JIM!)

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd certainly use it.  On the other hand, when did you buy it? Long ago,
> or recently?  If recently, I might take it and the bill to the store and
> enquire if it is their normal practice to sell stale-dated goods.  If you
> will use it only occasionally in the future, I might think twice about
> keeping it, but I have a big flour jar, some of which might be quite
> ancient flour by now. Insect infestation would be the deal breaker for me.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 1/14/2017 6:36 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>
>> An unopened package of all purpose flour "best before Oct 2016"....?
>> That's gotta be still good, right?
>>
>
>