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

Originally Posted by Dave20046

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.

I'll eat sandwich meats etc past their use by date, but raw meats I'll always cook up before they go out of date, even if I'm not ready to eat them. Seafood rarely has chance to go off in my house, love it all, especially whelks!

[Dave20046]

That's the right attitude
All this talk of rotting foods making me hungry...

me and my flatmate live on out of date food and drink, we have decided the date they print is a lie. We havn't fallen ill once yet.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by TheOnlyNemesis

me and my flatmate live on out of date food and drink, we have decided the date they print is a lie. We havn't fallen ill once yet.

I feel a challenge coming on...

Originally Posted by TheOnlyNemesis

me and my flatmate live on out of date food and drink, we have decided the date they print is a lie. We havn't fallen ill once yet.

I think after a while students tend to build up a much stronger immune system, I think that must have explained what we used to do! Anything to avoid not having to fork out on replacement food, and reduced items in supermarkets are definitely the way forward

[Vindaloo]

I'll eat virtually anything, regardless of the printed date. I'll make an extra effort if it's meat.

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

I think after a while students tend to build up a much stronger immune system, I think that must have explained what we used to do! Anything to avoid not having to fork out on replacement food, and reduced items in supermarkets are definitely the way forward

I actually had a doctor tell me exactly this ... that students and people living in ... shall we say in dirtier conditions ... have a much more active immune system than those in a sterile environment.

Anyone that's been abroad to countries with poor sanitation will know that all the most sanitory visitors are the first to come down with every tummy bug going ... whereas the people on the banks of the Ganges brush their teeth and bathe in water that's got 3000 times the accepted level of fecal bacteria (plus the odd floating dead body). Partly down to building an immunity, partly down to survival of the fittest, I'd imagine.

Sorry, did that get a bit grim?

Adrian

On some products I do not trust the use by date. It doesn't take much mishandling to make something unsafe. If it doesn't smell or taste right then I won't touch it.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Vindaloo

I'll eat virtually anything, regardless of the printed date. I'll make an extra effort if it's meat.



I actually had a doctor tell me exactly this ... that students and people living in ... shall we say in dirtier conditions ... have a much more active immune system than those in a sterile environment.

Anyone that's been abroad to countries with poor sanitation will know that all the most sanitory visitors are the first to come down with every tummy bug going ... whereas the people on the banks of the Ganges brush their teeth and bathe in water that's got 3000 times the accepted level of fecal bacteria (plus the odd floating dead body). Partly down to building an immunity, partly down to survival of the fittest, I'd imagine.

Sorry, did that get a bit grim?

Adrian

I have to agree with what you say. In our household we don't use any of those fancy cleaning sprays and we aren't cleaning cleaning cleaning all the time. Thats not to say we live in a dirty house (its just not tidy), but its not up to my Mother in Laws particular standard So much so that my Father in Law refuses to even enter the garden because its not tidy.

Compare this with my Brother in Laws place, which is always impecably clean and tidy

Yet when it comes to our general health my family don't suffer the tummy bugs and general health problems that my BIL's kids do

Both my MIL & BIL suffer from some form OCD I think. The hoover is in use every day Its not wrong to be like this a bit, but they are over the top with their use of cleaning products

no food should be eaten past its sell be date, Thats just disgusting!

that date is there for a reason. Do NOT EAT after

[maviczap]

This is why we throw away pefectly good food by the ton