What is the shelf life of food?

Are you one of those people who absolutely swears by expiration dates on food?  Yuck, the milk expired today! The bread smells fine but it says it’s not BEST BY today anymore. You don’t have to blindly adhere to those labels anymore.  You can now follow the rough estimate of this infographic that shows the shelf life of food in the pantry, fridge and freezer. (Infographic)

Yeah, yeah. I know. I’m going from following one piece of paper to following a bunch of pixels. It’s not in any way more scientific! But getting the rough idea of how long food lasts is a good thing (in a More You Know way). Like I never knew potatoes and lettuce shouldn’t be put in the freezer. Or that honey lasts FOREVER (makes sense though). Or that ketchup ‘only’ lasts a year, I’m pretty sure I broke that rule many times over.

The infographic was made by Visual.ly and used advice from the USDA, FDA and others. It’s going to be my new sworn source for keeping food around.

Photo credit: Food Matters

Via Gizmodo