I'm pretty good at using up food so that I don't waste it. This weekend (Sat), I bought tortillas. Now generally, I buy flour tortillas and stick them straight in the freezer. This time, I tried a new TJ's product, whole wheat organic wraps. I ate one on Saturday in a sandwich.
Tonight: quesadillas. And I opened the package, with 9 tortillas left and - they were starting to mold! After only a few days in the fridge! $2.00 down the drain. Bummer.
And then I gotta send my spouse up the hill for tortillas, right before dinner. Luckily we live nearby.
This reminds me of a Christmas Eve dinner, our first in So. Cal. together, when I decided to make fajitas for dinner. Now, back then ('97), I didn't really cook. But I bought the ingredients, and made the fajitas, and opened up the tortillas (which I didn't buy, because my spouse already had them, he was the cook), and...they were moldy! And it was 8 pm on Christmas eve! So every place was closed.
So we ate fajita fillings. I was SO disappointed, and apparently, I haven't forgotten about it.
So, back to the freezer for my wraps/tortillas. Sadly, they lose freshness that way. But better than tossing them.
Wow, they went bad in just four days. Regular bread doesn't mold that quickly, does it? Guess now we know why the industry puts preservatives in almost everything. I guess you could divide the package and put half in the freezer.
ReplyDeleteI threw out a mushy peach I found at the bottom of the fridge produce drawer, the other day, kicking myself for not eating it when it was ripe. I hate to waste food too!
Yep, four days!!
ReplyDeleteTrader Joe's tortilla's are the WORST! They ALWAYS mold so fast! I stopped buying them there because of this (I find a lot of their bread products are like this). I appreciate the perservative free aspect, but it gets a little ridiculous. Who can eat an entire package of tortillas in 2-3 days?! So don't worry, it wasn't just you!
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