I feel bad.While some people are staving, I am throwing away perfectly unspoiled food because of my over-reliant on expiry labels. Since young, I was taught to determine by myself whether my food is still edible. I was taught to smell my food. If the milk smells sour, then it is spoiled. If the egg smells funny, it is probably bad. If the rice has a sour taste, then it is spoiled too. If the house is redolent with burnt smell from the oven while the cake is still baking away, the cake is probably burnt and the oven temperature needs calibration. Recent years, I have ceded control to the expiry dates on food labels. I have learned to rely on the expiry date on labels and boycotted the power of smell.The moment has come for me to restore the sniff test and trust the sense of smell that had served me well while I was a kid.
