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Edwin Pawlowski Edwin Pawlowski is offline
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> wrote:


>> 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.


A week is about the outer limits. The tomato sauce is acidic and helps
preserve it a bit though. If it was in a good container to avoid any cross
contaminations, I'd eat it but I'd toss anything left after that.