The More I Thought About it...I Said No

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I have written more than once about my absolute disdain for throwing food away. But I wound up doing that yesterday on second thought. Thing is, we usually always have ham and turkey on our Thanksgiving, and I am always the lucky one who gets to take home the ham bone and turkey carcass to make soup out of. I made the turkey noodle soup, and yesterday I decided to use the ham bone and make bean soup. Thing is, I had the ham bone in the freezer from last year and I thought I'd use it to yield a bit more ham for the soup. For whatever reason, I didn't make the soup sooner last year, so the bone just sat in the freezer... For a year. To top it off, I'd bought the ham originally on sale shortly after Easter, so all said, the ham bone in the freezer was at leat a year and a half old. It didn't taste bad and had no foul odor or texture. It was probably perfectly fine. Yet, at the same time, after I thought about it, I just couldn't get the age out of my head and so I decided to toss it out and just use the more recent ham bone and meat from that. Would you have still used it?