re: How careful are y'all about expiration dates?

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while one of my co-workers won't eat, drink, or use anything past it's expiry date. She even questions it on the day of

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I'm pretty much this way because of my mother. She questions things in the month of the expiration date, and smells of everything. (She has a nose like a hound.) She's overly cautious since my brother had a severe case of salmonella when he was very young and almost died. Since then, my entire family has been rather observant about expiration dates as well as cross contamination and cleanliness in the kitchen. If it's not cleaned with bleach, it's not clean.