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Do people really take any notice of this on food nowadays? There are so many bargains to be had at supermarkets. If I have food at home I won't chuck it out just because it's a few days 'out of date'.

I'm just about to have some eggs that were bbe 31st July. Will I die? Or get get GRID?

Best Before - safe to eat out of date, might not taste good
Use By - Contract ebola if you eat after this date.

My missus always chucks stuff away that is out of date (whichever type of date it is). She thinks that something BBE 1st September will magically go off and be poisonous to eat once it gets to midnight on 31st August. Amazing how they can be so accurate with these things.

Occasionally I do sneak a bit of milk into her tea that is out of date. I live dangerously me.

Theres a fairly concise report on it here.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/06june/Pages/use-by-best-before-dates.aspx

If the eggs smell when you crack them then chuck them, otherwise they should be fine. As with all foods cook them through throughly and you should be ok.

I also disregard sell by/bb dates, and just use sight and smell, if doesn't look/smell nice then throw it.

My rule of thumb -

If it's meat, it gets binned.
If it looks and smells ok, it gets eaten.

There you go then, I was right except for eggs.


Sippo will be dead by now though. Ooops.

Uh oh. I cooked 4 but could only eat two. My belly is now making some strange noises...

I have 6 eggs which have a BBE date of 3rd August.

however I am away this weekend so will have to use them up tonight or or tomorrow morning. Unlikely I am going to have time to use them tomorrow morning so any suggestions for a tasty meal for something involving 6 eggs?

I could throw 2 at my neighbour, as he is a total flid.

Did you put them in the oven?

Kedgeree.

I've come to the conclusion that I've eaten so much meat that's been almost raw in my lifetime (and survived), that eating something a few days past the use-by date isn't really going to do me much harm.

Steak is better almost raw, well rare at least. Bloody well-done wankers ruin steak.

I've eaten loads of raw fruit and vegetables. 

Raw bacon.

Yum.

Wow, such a risk taker!

Yeah. It's the way I roll.

The only foods i'm funny about are raw white meats and eggs.
If they're past their use by date, i'll bin them.

Anything else, i'll just go by smell, appearance and texture.

I'm a right fussy cunt about such things - especially meat, bread and milk. I'm part of the 'chuck it out at midnight' brigade.

If it made no difference at all they wouldn't bother having the dates anyway, that's my theory.

Bread-milk-eggs-meat will get binned by the date. Anything else is fair game imo.

It's the "eat within 2 days of opening" that bugs me. How long do supermarkets keep stuff on the deli counter? Are they limited to 2 days?

It's a marketing ploy to make people buy more.

Bread will get chucked when it starts to turn mouldy, even then you get ill from mouldy bread. I'm lead to believe that's the mould they make penicillian from. I think some of the BB dates are a clever supermarket marketing ploy.

I only pay attention to use by dates on eggs. The rest I'll use my own judgement.

I have a massive vat of chilli sauce that has a BBE date in 2009 - still tastes lovely!

If it taste like chicken, keep on lickin,
If it taste like trout, spit it out

But what if it is trout?

Spit it out. Rules is rules.

A rule to live by in all of life.

From someone in the game...Food...

Frozen food is fine unless freezer burned.

I often sell out of date stuff to clearance wholesalers with a certificate of extension.

Cans are ok unless blown or bulged.

Fresh food? Smell it......if ok....eat it.

There was a fella last year lived for a month on food of all descriptions that was deemed out of date.

Blogged it for a newspaper. Some of the stuff was way past its date and he had no adverse reactions at all.

What does freezer burned mean?

Use by dates highlight a food safety risk if eaten past that date, ie foods high in moisture and protein which are potential breeding grounds for harmful bacteria. Selling, or even giving away, food past this date is illegal.
Best before dates highlight that after this date the quality may not be as good. Foods with best before dates are low risk and it isn't against the law to sell past expiry.

What's the problem with eating out of date eggs? I thought if they float then chuck them, if they don't they're fine? I don't go by the use by / best before date.

Freezer burn is when something has been dried by the sub zero temp....like prawns.

We have chucked more food away from the freezer than the fridge because of dates. Used to have a big chest freezer but so much stuff was left untouched in the bottom, we now have a more sensible sized one which means we waste a lot less.

I didn't think things got out of date if they were frozen? Pretty much everything in my freezer at uni was at least two weeks out of date, and I'm not dead yet.

Frozen foods have a best before date but are edible. Even freezer burned stuff is edible, just tastes a bit rank.

I've kept a human torso in my freezer for a good 2 years now and just to confirm that it's kept quite well in that time.