Medicine and cooking during "hard times"

       Often shelf life and food safety comes up for obvious reasons, including during "hard times".

            The old time idea of using your eyes and nose to check whatever is put out in sight is probably a good idea during "hard times". After all, some foods and medicines could be bad for us to consume.

            Now during "good times", paying attention to expiration dates is probably a reasonable and safe idea, too.

            Remember that keeping anything cool and out of the sunlight is a good way to extend shelf life, if you can. Said another way, it might look and smell better, like be safe enough to consume.

            And sharing anything that could go bad is a good community idea, like sharing venison harvested during the warm season.

            Remember spices often became popular to mask the smell of meat going bad. And never forget you can use heat to kill many bad things that hurt we humans. And the heat can be from cooking, or boiling.

            Last remember that salt used to be worth its weight in gold. Now we have a "too much" problem, but during "hard times" don't waste your salt. We humans need it to live, including our sick people.