[Food] Eating out of date food

[GT49er]

This happens now if you use the same piece of cling film or foil to wrap it in. Should use a fresh piece every time the piece of cheese is opened, so said a chef on TV.

Fresh piece of foil or cling film? Hah! Wouldn't take too much notice of TV chefs on that - haven't you noticed that they always use a fresh (i.e. brand new) pot or pan for everything they cook? Never anything that looks a bit black or that might have seen the close attentions of a brillo pad at some point. In the REAL world - just cut the mould off!

 

[Mo Gosfield]

In the bad old days - 1960's before "best before" dates - I remember one occasion when my dad, who ran a corner shop, took some cheese out of the cold cabinet to cut some mould off it, and then put it back. It was only a little bit of mould, though.

People are still twitchy about seeing mould spots on Cheddar but seem quite happy to eat the ' blue vein ' cheeses ( e.g Stilton, Shropshire Blue, Dolce Latte, Gorgonzola etc ) which are injected with mould spores to give them their traditional look.
On ' out of date ' product, I am currently eating jam that has a best before date of 17/05/06. Its fine.

 

[carteater]

I am currently eating jam that has a best before date of 17/05/06. Its fine.

Is it.

 

[Triggaaar]

Not usually a good idea but I found a big sharing bag of Tyrell's Tortilla Chips in the back of the larder this morning. The best before date was 5th December 2014. It would have gone straight in the bin being that far out of date but

I was reading your post expecting it to say 2006 or something. I wouldn't dream of throwing a pack from Dec 2014 away. It wasn't out of date, it was passed it's 'best before', which is not the same thing as being passed a 'use by' date.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Just had a sealed Christmas Pud found in the cupboard Best Before April 2000. It was lovely

 

[Motogull]

Just had a sealed Christmas Pud found in the cupboard Best Before April 2000. It was lovely

Double hard bastard.

 

[BBassic]

Blimey, I did not realise how old this thread was. Got a proper jolt when I saw BensGrandad posting.

 

[pure_white]

I refuse to buy milk without a date on now, anyone else unhappy the dates were removed?

 

[ExmouthExile]

I opened a can of potato and leek soup the other day with the expiry date in 2013. It looked ok and smelt ok but I wasn’t going to chance it. Normally I take no notice of the expiry date but I thought 9 years was pushing it a bit.

 

[Whoislloydy]

An old office job I worked at in 2015 had a network outage, so rather than send everyone home they asked us to do a much needed clear out of cupboards. I got stuck into the kitchen, and this one base cupboard in the corner stacked to the brim with god knows what people had put in their over the years. I'd say 70% of it was out of date, put there by staff who had moved to pastures new.

The one standout though was a half eaten box of Weetabix from 1997 at the back.

 

[Pevenseagull]

There had been an ongoing debate in Pevenseagull towers about this.

I was clearing out some boxes that have moved around me with over the years and found a can of tuna dated best before March 2003.

Can wasn't blown, trimmed off the mould from some cheese from the back of the fridge and had it on a couple of baked potatoes.

Didn't die.

Girlfriend left me.

 

[dsr-burnley]

Chicken (and to some extent other meat) is about the only thing where the date matters. Everything else, you can tell whether it's off. Milk smells and tastes off, bread goes mouldy and stale, biscuits go soft, fruit and veg goes rotten, yoghurt's lid swells up. Packet stuff loses its taste but seldom goes "off".

 

[hart's shirt]

Just had a sealed Christmas Pud found in the cupboard Best Before April 2000. It was lovely

I'm glad you didn't find it a little off pudding.

 

[Live by the sea]

Never eat chicken after it’s use by date , you could easily end up in hospital . Fish also but you will smell it’s gone off . Be very careful with any fresh food , dried food much less risk . Just freeze anything you are not going to eat by the use by date .

 

[Live by the sea]

Fresh piece of foil or cling film? Hah! Wouldn't take too much notice of TV chefs on that - haven't you noticed that they always use a fresh (i.e. brand new) pot or pan for everything they cook? Never anything that looks a bit black or that might have seen the close attentions of a brillo pad at some point. In the REAL world - just cut the mould off!

You should never reuse foil , you are asking for cross contamination. Never cut mould off , and eat !!!! it will also be starting to go off in the rest of the food just not showing it yet .

 

[Live by the sea]

I refuse to buy milk without a date on now, anyone else unhappy the dates were removed?

I have several times thrown away milk well before the use by date because it smells on the turn . Nothing worse than milk or cream on the turn . Disgusting.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

People throw away way too much stuff. I eat plenty of stuff the guidelines say you should chuck and I never get food poisoning. Maybe I just have a strong stomach

^^^ This a million times over. We eat loads of so called "out of date" food. Smelling food is the best way of finding out. The only thing I'm slightly careful about is fish and shellfish.

For stuff we're not going to eat we have a number of ways of disposal raher than putting it in the bin :

Uncooked veg scraps, and veg that really is past it's edible point = compost heap
Meat scraps - go to the dog and the cats ( although we've been eating veggie for the last two months so the animals are rather lacking ! )
Cooked food scraps - to the chicken
Bread that can't be eaten also goes to the chicken but used to go to the seagulls

Appreciate not every one can do this - I'm lucky enough to have a big enough garden and animals that can help.

EDIT - I didn't spot how old this thread was until I came across BG's post !

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I refuse to buy milk without a date on now, anyone else unhappy the dates were removed?

Wherever we shop there’s still a date on milk.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I refuse to buy milk without a date on now, anyone else unhappy the dates were removed?

I haven't seen any milk in supermarkets without a date - where have you seen this ? Regardless, you wouldn't have been very happy growing up in the 70s when most people had milk delivered to their door in glass bottles - those bottles didn't have BB dates on them. Oh how I miss the days of my parents ordering me a bottle of gold top to go on my rice krispies for my birthday.

 

[GT49er]

Just had a sealed Christmas Pud found in the cupboard Best Before April 2000. It was lovely

Where's your sense of Christmas charity and goodwill to to those less fortunate? Cut off a large slice and give it to a hngry homeless person sleeping on the street. Give him a quid while you're at it, and wish him Merry Christmas. There's not enough kindness in the world sometimes, especially at Christmas!.







Come back the next day. If he's still OK you can eat the rest of the pudding with no fear.