sell by dates

[Sunna]

[Midnitemo]

I have a nose and eyes....I regularly eat stuff out of date because I hate waste and was brought up that way....my significant others are terrified by out of date stuff!

[Sunna]

that's the way I see it me , just open and look n smell , did enough supermarket skip raiding in my youth , st johns co-op was one of my regular spots.

[bigpaul]

never had sell by dates when I was a kid and I seem to have survived so far!!!!

[Mortblanc]

[Geordie_Rob]

I regularly eat past best before date (except eggs) & past it's sell by date. I never eat past the use by date.

I once opened an out of date egg & the smell has put me off ever doing it again.

[Mortblanc]

The only foods I have had a direct experience with failing when past date was a can of cheap soup. It was one of the "store brands" that is supposed to be the same as major brand but really is not. It was a year past its date and had been on the shelf of my pantry for two years.

The can was fine, no rust or swelling, but on opening I discovered the plastic liner of the can itself had come lose from the metal and shreds of plastic can liner were floating in the contents.

This was a can of chicken noodle soup, so no excessive acid was present in the contents. The can simply failed with age.

Were I starving I would probably have eaten it anyway, picking out the plastic as I chewed, but that not being the case I decided I could afford to throw away a half dollar can of soup for safety sake.

Other than that I have a simple rule that if something is green, brown, yellow or red and is not supposed to be, has maggots or stinks I pass it up.

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Come to think of it I just described my second wife's normal table fare!

But I survived that too!

[BeardyMan]

Aye, nowt wrong with out of date stuff. We use 'Approved Foods' where most, if not all, of the bargains on there are out of date when you buy them. I take the oldest stuff with me when camping, risky move I know, but I've been fine so far...

[bigpaul]

I once opened an out of date egg & the smell has put me off ever doing it again.

tut tut, you obviously didn't do the test on the egg in a pan of water first did you!!!

[Geordie_Rob]

What's the egg in a pan of water test?