Nancy2 wrote:
> On Dec 31, 11:45 am, wrote:
>> I'm little paranoid so this might sound like a stupid question, but how long
>> should food stay good in the fridge? I'm talking right now about some tomato
>> gravy and meatballs (and lasagna) I made a week ago for Christmas. Should it
>> still be good after a week? I can't always trust smell. The icebox is fairly
>> new, runs great and is set cold. Thanks.
>
> It depends. I can't keep any cooked ground meat longer than about 3
> days, because my stomach apparently is very sensitive to it. Your own
> experience may be different.
>
> If the meatballs are going bad, they might have kind of a sweet
> odor.
>
> Surely, it wasn't so expensive to make or hard to make that you can't
> just throw it out. Seven days is a long time to have cooked meat in
> the fridge, IMO.
>
> N.

A lot depends on the fridge. We remodeled the kitchen and debated about
tossing the fridge because it seemed to work OK but decided to get a new
one. It isn't a super duper high end unit but the major difference is
that it has good circulation which allows us to keep the box temp low
without spot freezing stuff. It is amazing how long stuff lasts in the
new fridge.