http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/standby-recipes-buying-last-minute-meats.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:04:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/standby-recipes-buying-last-minute-meats.html/comment-page-1#comment-286993 Donna Freedman Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:35:47 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=3189#comment-286993 Jim, When I wrote "Late date carnivore bait" for Smart Spending (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/smartspending/archive/2007/10/09/late-date-carnivore-bait.aspx" rel="nofollow">link</a>) most of the readers were wildly divided: Either "eeeeewwww!" or "shhh, don't give our secret away!" Some others were intrigued; they'd never noticed "manager's special" meat before, or had always thought it was substandard. Wrong. A couple of weeks ago I bought a package of chicken leg quarters that still had four days before its sell-by date. When opened, it smelled awful and I returned it. (Another reason to keep your receipt.) Sometimes you get a bad batch of "fresh" meat. Funny, though: I've never gotten a bad batch of "old" meat. Jim,
When I wrote “Late date carnivore bait” for Smart Spending (link) most of the readers were wildly divided: Either “eeeeewwww!” or “shhh, don’t give our secret away!” Some others were intrigued; they’d never noticed “manager’s special” meat before, or had always thought it was substandard. Wrong.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a package of chicken leg quarters that still had four days before its sell-by date. When opened, it smelled awful and I returned it. (Another reason to keep your receipt.) Sometimes you get a bad batch of “fresh” meat. Funny, though: I’ve never gotten a bad batch of “old” meat.

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