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real food question: how long does stuff keep

renkatrun
renkatrun Posts: 111 Member
edited December 2024 in Social Groups
How long can you keep homemade soup in the fridge before it goes bad?

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  • kerriknox
    kerriknox Posts: 276 Member
    Depends what's in it but I'd say a week max.
  • Fitby31
    Fitby31 Posts: 95 Member
    I cook on Sunday afternoons & eat or toss stuff by Friday or Saturday depending on what it is. I agree tough.. I'd say a week for soup max
  • renkatrun
    renkatrun Posts: 111 Member
    Thanks so much. It was cauliflower sweet potato soup I made on Sunday. I will see now if it was okay ;)
  • mehaugen
    mehaugen Posts: 210 Member
    Probably 2 weeks. My rule is if it has funky stuff on top or smells bad, as I hate to waste food and have NEVER gotten sick from eating "off" food. If it's only a week and smells/looks fine then re-heating it will kill off anything undesirable. In fact, the only thing that stops me from eating food gone bad is that it tastes gross, not the fear of getting sick.

    Back in the day as a poor college student I would heat up milk that was starting to turn and it would last even longer. I feel like I've pushed the boundaries of bad food past good sense many times, and again I have never gotten sick. Just think of the Romans, who would just add spices to make rotten meat taste good. I think people nowadays are too squeamish about eating something that isn't perfect or has been in the fridge 8 days. Also consider that the food industry rules say 7 days, and those rules are notoriously on the safe side.

    N=1 of course and I wouldn't serve it to others.
  • twinmom01
    twinmom01 Posts: 854 Member
    Soup - I will eat for up to a week after...

    What I usually do with soups is make a big pot and freeze half of it - after eating the same soup for 3-4 meals I am done with it for a little while - if I freeze some then 2 weeks later i pull it out thaw it out and usually am good to go for a few more meals
  • SweetxCatastrophe
    SweetxCatastrophe Posts: 593 Member
    Eh, maybe I'm brave but a veggie based soup would probably keep up to 2 weeks. I had some bone broth I reboiled after about a week and a half and it was fine. I always smell things.. If it smells bad, it probably is
  • PaleoRDH
    PaleoRDH Posts: 266
    depends on the ingredients.........seafood stuff not long. but otherwise in my house when whatever reaches a week, it's gone.
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