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Asked by AmethystGlimmer to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 21 Jun 2016.
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Andrea Boyd answered on 21 Jun 2016:
All the food has a shelf life of 2 years, so it usually gets eaten long before it expires! Astronauts eat all the food from each packet as they are small/medium servings so it’s hard to overeat or have leftovers – you can just combine different packets and tins to make up a meal to eat whatever you want for that breakfast/lunch/tea/supper/snack. Astronauts taste test lots of spacefood and choose the ones they want so they know they will like it 🙂 But if any of the food did expire… then I guess they would put it in the rubbish bag and it would burn up on reetry with the other rubbish in an old cargo vehicle.
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AmethystGlimmer commented on :
Thanks for replying! Plus just a reminder that I posted this question before the live chat so I apologise if it was repeated.
AmethystGlimmer commented on :
🙂
Andrea commented on :
No worries – I remember it in the chat, but it’s hard to type a proper answer in such short chat replies – was good to have it here also!