Out of date food confessions

[ReverendCounter]

I've just finished off some cornflour which was best before April 2010.

What are you prepared to admit to?

(oh dear - transferred to F,D&R from the Lounge!)

Edited by ReverendCounter on Monday 21st December 21:28

[320d is all you need]

I had a Muller Corner which was OOD on the 19th December.

[ReverendCounter]

Careful now!

[Heathwood]

I had a bacon sandwich last year. The bacon was a little off colour and smelled of feet but I still used it as there was a few days left on the use by date and I was bloody hungry. I figured it would be fine. It was only when I was binning the packaging that I realised I’d misread the month and It’d actually gone off 4 weeks earlier. It was ok though and no I’ll affects.

[ninepoint2]

Couple of years back my 24 year old son was not keen on using curry powder that was 2 years younger than him..it was fine

[loskie]

just found a 2014 use by date Christmas pudding in the cupboard, it's lovely

[Mikebentley]

Years ago almost ate a tin of JohnWest Tuna that was 27yrs out of date......my mother couldn’t understand why I didn’t eat it.

[loskie]

I wouldnt even eat that in date: cat food

[carlove]

I once used milk that was a day out it’s use by date. I’m a real daredevil

[mw88]

When I first started working from home back in March, I was drinking tea that had a best before date of 2015.

It's usually things like "once opened use within xx weeks" I ignore - Made a sandwich earlier with some garlic mayo I found in the back of the fridge that says use within 8 weeks on the label, pretty sure it was opened over 12 months ago.

If it's not green, and it smells alright - I'll eat it!

[LordHaveMurci]

carlove said:

I once used milk that was a day out it’s use by date. I’m a real daredevil

I poured some milk down the sink the other day.

8 days past its use by date, I’d used it up until the day before.

Regularly eat foil packed stuff thats years out of date, not done me any harm so far...

[carlove]

LordHaveMurci said:

I poured some milk down the sink the other day.

8 days past its use by date, I’d used it up until the day before.

Regularly eat foil packed stuff thats years out of date, not done me any harm so far...

I do find with milk I go by smell, I’ve had milk go off while in date and milk last a few days beyond use by date.

In general, I am funny about use by dates, reading this I probably need to man up.

[juice]

I bought a baguette from the local shop for 65p, sell by date today...

I'm OK though.....

[Evoluzione]

O/H took a tin of milk out of the cupboard tonight announcing I wouldn't want any as it was a bit out of date.
She opened it and threw it straight down the plughole.
11 yrs out of date

[TGTiff]

When I joined the RN back in 1983 we were issued ration packs that were at least 10 years out of date as the sell by date of the Mars Bars in them were dated use by 1973.
Also on my last patrol on HMS V........
We loaded eggs that were past their use by date, we were still eating them 3 months later at the end of the patrol.

[RKi]

12 days past use by date, tray of rice pudding 2 days ago. Delicious.

I go by smell. Regularly drink milk way out of date.

Never been ill. Kinda get off on eating such things ha.

[talksthetorque]

I’ve not quite finished a four day old lemon drizzle cake that’s out of date yesterday.
I’m sure that my granny’s cakes lasted about six weeks. I shall be polishing it off tomorrow.
Let the authorities know if you don’t hear from me.

[lemansky]

A Mars Bar in an early ration pack when I was a young Army Recruit.

It was older than me, by some considerable margin.

[MK1RS Bruce]

carlove said:

LordHaveMurci said:

I poured some milk down the sink the other day.

8 days past its use by date, I’d used it up until the day before.

Regularly eat foil packed stuff thats years out of date, not done me any harm so far...

I do find with milk I go by smell, I’ve had milk go off while in date and milk last a few days beyond use by date.

In general, I am funny about use by dates, reading this I probably need to man up.

You don't need a use by date on milk if it smells off then its done for, if it doesn't then its fine. If you never leave it out of the fridge for even a few minutes then it lasts for ages!!

I once ate a gammon steak that was 3 months out of date, lived to tell the tale.

[loskie]

the thing with gammon and bacon is it's cured. IE preserved: exactly what it's designed to do not just to flavour the meat.


One thing that does make me laugh is mineral waters which claim to have filtered through rocks for millions of years. THEN they have a use by date!