This is a Good Reminder to Check Your Food, Even if the Expiration Date is Fine

Food goes bad when you don't eat it in time. That's just a fact of life. However, it can be frustrating when it's gone bad and it hasn't even reached the printed expiration date yet. That happened to me the other day.

Check Your Food Before You Cook It

I purchased some garlic bread the other day from one of our stores in Deep East Texas - I'm not going to tell you which store I bought it from - and took it home. To give you some context, this was the bread that comes in the aluminum sleeve, with garlic butter already on it. You're supposed to be able to bake it just like that, in the sleeve. However, my wife and I wanted it a bit crispier, so we took it out of the wrapping to bake it.

As soon as we pulled it out, this is what we saw:

Q107, Mark Cunningham

And here's one more view:

Q107, Mark Cunningham

Yes, that's mold already forming on the bread. Now, something to keep in mind, the expiration date was still two days out. I checked it before I left the store. If we had baked the bread directly in the sleeve, we wouldn't have known that it had mold on it.

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I say all that to say this: Please check your groceries for mold, expiration, etc. This is not a post to bash our local grocers or anything like that. That's why I didn't name the store. Also, the bread was returned as soon as I found the issue, and the workers at the store started taking care of the issue as soon as I showed them, so it was handled promptly and correctly.