suziequeJanuary 19, 2009. Once I open and use part of a jar of spaghetti sauce, how long can I keep that jar in the refrigerator before it's no longer safe to use? One time I found a long-forgotten jar way in the back and it had grown some dreadded fuzzies - yuck! Of course I pitched that right away. But that was a very old jar.
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