9 Foods You Might Be Throwing Away Too Soon

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/06/11/spoiled-food

You get home from a long day at work when the sad realization hits you: You haven’t been grocery shopping in weeks.

Stomach rumbling, you begin the all-too-familiar ritual of rifling through the fridge and pantry, looking for any combination of grains, meats, and/or vegetables that could pass for a reasonable meal.
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Behind a forever-unopened, industrial-size box of raisins, you find a plastic parcel of dried spaghetti. It’s a start.

Then you remember that the little glint of red you’ve been seeing in the farthest corner of your fridge for the past three weeks was once a freshly popped jar of marinara sauce.

That’s the golden ticket—it would turn your sad bowl of noodles into a full-fledged, respectable meal. But the sauce is already a week past its “freshest by” date, and after wrestling off the cap you notice some blue-black, fuzzy spots of mold on the rim of the jar.