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Hi everyone: Can someone help me I made Potato salad for the Labor day Holiday and forgot to put it out. If I keep it refrigerated until next Sunday for a party I am going to will the Potato salad keep that Long???? THAT WOULD BE ABOUT EIGHT OR NINE DAYS REFRIGERATED. NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE.
Personally I would not serve potato salad that was made a week ago. You have fresh ingredients in there like potatoes, onions, celery, etc. Once vegetables are cut, they begin to break down quickly and I think the taste will be compromised as well. I'm pretty picky about leftovers - after one or two days out they go. I'd hate to think about the possibility of my guests getting food poisoning from something I served.
Store bought potato salad will keep quite a while because there are preservatives added to it.
I have bad thoughts about keeping it for nine days. Your probably right, its a shame it's 10 lbs of potato salad. It has mayo and vinegar with celery and onions. Hate to throw it out but I may have to .
You can salvage some of it by making "potato salad casserole" though.
Just scoop some in a pyrex, maybe sprinkle it with cheddar or just paprika (or sunflower seeds would be pretty & make it more balanced) and bake it at around 350 until nice and bubbly.
I like Debsi's idea. Yum.
Bubbyanj, I've forgotten things like that, and it just made me want to kick myself later, but week-old potato salad would definitely be questionable.
My sympathies.
But it would be awful if people got sick.
That actually happened to some people after a soccer team potluck years ago, and two of the moms even ended up in the hospital.
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