Do you eat food that is past the 'use by' date?

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

I tend to ignore any dates on the packet except with milk as the dates on that tend to be pretty accurate.

Milk is amongst the easiest of products to detect when it's off as it smells a little "fruity"when it's on the turn. I sometimes forget to check and end up drinking slightly "fruity" milk, and it still does no harm!

Originally Posted by phil24_7

Milk is amongst the easiest of products to detect when it's off as it smells a little "fruity"when it's on the turn. I sometimes forget to check and end up drinking slightly "fruity" milk, and it still does no harm!

I've done that a few times too, desperate times!

[anna]

As has been said, milk, and dairy products I always use within date, cheese gets the sniff test.

Chicken is the only other meat I am careful with, after having had a bad case of food poisioning when I was in italy, courtesy of chicken I am now super cautious of it at home.

I now only buy meats from the local butcher, it is just the same cost as the supermarket and has soooooooooo much more taste.

Saying this though, it does also depend how you store you foods, I am also very careful to store meats away from dairy and veg in my fridge. I also separate different meats in my freezer.

Milk is easy to detect.

Pour it in your tea, and see if it comes up in lumps rather than stirring in

Originally Posted by anna

cheese gets the sniff test.

Take it you don't keep some of the more stinkier cheeses then I don't bother sniffing cheese, it matures the more you keep it depending how you like it anyway. I do check for obvious mould signs though and then just cut them off as it usually forms on the edges of the block so the inner cheese is fine

Originally Posted by Balky001

Although I notice the OP was past 1am in the morning so at that time I'd eat anything!

haha, too rite. Once its passed midnight, anything goes!

When I was at seecondary school, I used to stop off a tescos and buy some milk with a nice large choc muffin each morning. Once I had a sift through my bag and found a carton of milk over a year old. Imagine, milk out of a fridge for a year. I opened the lid to get a waft and almost vomited.

Don't ever forgot bananas in a rucksack either. It'll turn into black goo, and ruin your work!

With mouldy bread, if im desperate, I just pull out the green bits and eat the rest, thats if im desperate mind you.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by anna

Chicken is the only other meat I am careful with, after having had a bad case of food poisioning when I was in italy, courtesy of chicken I am now super cautious of it at home..

I've had really bad food poisoning from chicken too, as a result I'm really cautious as well. My doctor told me once you've had food poisoning it makes you more vulnerable to it again within the type of food it was i.e chicken. Sounds backwards though.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by thulfi

haha, too rite. Once its passed midnight, anything goes!

When I was at seecondary school, I used to stop off a tescos and buy some milk with a nice large choc muffin each morning. Once I had a sift through my bag and found a carton of milk over a year old. Imagine, milk out of a fridge for a year. I opened the lid to get a waft and almost vomited.

Don't ever forgot bananas in a rucksack either. It'll turn into black goo, and ruin your work!

With mouldy bread, if im desperate, I just pull out the green bits and eat the rest, thats if im desperate mind you.

Once left a carton of pineapple juice in a mini fridge, but accidentally left it on 'warm' and went away about a week later the smell was disgusting there were solid webs of mould everywhere.

I tend to try everything, even if it is quite a way past the use by date. If it tastes bad call it day and find something fresher to eat. Not had any food poisoning yet...

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by TazDaz

I tend to try everything, even if it is quite a way past the use by date. If it tastes bad call it day and find something fresher to eat. Not had any food poisoning yet...

Just don't do that with some meat or sea food.
I've fallen victim to chicken and prawns so far probably the worst I've ever been ill.