Expiration on Food

exotic_island_girl · Nov 15, 2005

How do you feel about best before dates? What is too far over the date to deserve throwing out? I'm a total hypochondriac when it comes to best before dates. If it's going to expired the next day , I wouldn't eat it at all. I'll just basically throw it out.

Especially when buying food items, I always pick an item that would stay fresh longer. I wouldn't buy an item if doesn't have a expiration. It just gonna make me nuts w/o looking the expiration before i buy it.

fogg88 · Nov 15, 2005

I'm the same way. ...after a few bouts of food poisoning, including one that resulted in a trip to the ER, I'm totally paranoid about leftovers and old food. I'd rather waste a few bucks than go through that again.

...they probably hate me at the grocer, since I'm the one who's always rearranging stuff in the cold case to get the freshest milk, cottage cheese, or whatever that they keep at the back.

jenscats5 · Nov 15, 2005

The "best buy" or "sell by" dates are only the dates when the retailer is required to sell the food by.....it's not when it actually expires...

A lot of food is actually good for a time after the printed date.....the date doesn't mean that BAM! the food all of a sudden expires then & there....

A majority of food poisoning cases really happen from improper food storage or unsanitary handling rather than the food going badly itself....

jaded · Nov 15, 2005

Same. As fogg88 said I'd rather waste a few bucks than get food poisoning.

exotic_island_girl · Nov 15, 2005

fogg88 said:
...they probably hate me at the grocer, since I'm the one who's always rearranging stuff in the cold case to get the freshest milk, cottage cheese, or whatever that they keep at the back.

they hate me too especially the one who stock foods.

needtogetaas · Nov 15, 2005

eggs last an amazing 2 weeks after the sell by date.

ChefWide · Nov 15, 2005

Your nose. use it. it works better than any other measure of a foods freshness/level of degradation.

needtogetaas · Nov 15, 2005

ChefWide said:
Your nose. use it. it works better than any other measure of a foods freshness/level of degradation.

dame right.and if the chickin is slimy just wash it off and pot it in a stew. :evil:

Dunk · Nov 15, 2005

a distant relative last night "kaw'd" my "awe een" last night at the Borgata. you owe me $800. im serious.

exotic_island_girl · Nov 15, 2005

Dunk said:
a distant relative last night "kaw'd" my "awe een" last night at the Borgata. you owe me $800. im serious.

what the shell are you talking about?

jaded · Nov 15, 2005

jenscats5 said:
The "best buy" or "sell by" dates are only the dates when the retailer is required to sell the food by.....it's not when it actually expires...

A lot of food is actually good for a time after the printed date.....the date doesn't mean that BAM! the food all of a sudden expires then & there....

A majority of food poisoning cases really happen from improper food storage or unsanitary handling rather than the food going badly itself....

LOL, yeah, I've been told this as well...but I still don't like to eat foods on or after the expiration or "best before" dates. LOL.

HardHat87 · Nov 15, 2005

Just eat it sissy!

Mr. dB · Nov 15, 2005

Yogurt always gets better as it approaches the expiry date.

HiDnGoD · Nov 15, 2005

jaded said:
LOL, yeah, I've been told this as well...but I still don't like to eat foods on or after the expiration or "best before" dates. LOL.

Like everything with a rating, there is a safety factor built in. That date is the absolute, no fucking way it's bad, minimum time to sell by.
However, I always go by smell. Especially with cold meaets & dairy products. I've returned so much cottage cheese, because it already smells half sour when I buy it, rather than that mildly pungent smell.

anthrax · Nov 15, 2005

Mr. dB said:
Yogurt always gets better as it approaches the expiry date.

I've eaten yogurt some 10 days after their expiry date
They were just fine

exotic_island_girl · Nov 15, 2005

anthrax said:
I've eaten yogurt some 10 days after their expiry date
They were just fine

Ewwwwww..Gross. You have to be Joking!

anthrax · Nov 15, 2005

exotic_island_girl said:
Ewwwwww..Gross. You have to be Joking!

It just get a lit bit more acid

You're taking more risks with mayo (salmonella) than past expiry date yogurt/eggs

exotic_island_girl · Nov 15, 2005

anthrax said:
It just get a lit bit more acid

You're taking more risks with mayo (salmonella) than past expiry date yogurt/eggs

Yeah I've heard that mayo have egg yolk as in ingredient. EWwwwwww.

I dont eat expired food not even when it expired the next day. I immediately throw it out.

anthrax · Nov 15, 2005

exotic_island_girl said:
Yeah I've heard that mayo have egg yolk as in ingredient. EWwwwwww.

I dont eat expired food not even when it expired the next day. I immediately throw it out.

Walmart thank you very much

exotic_island_girl · Nov 15, 2005

anthrax said:
Walmart thank you very much

Walmart sucks.... I prefer Albertson, ralphs or randalls.

But sometimes I go to walmart but walmart veggies= spoiled rotten.

Lady Viking · Nov 16, 2005

jenscats5 said:
The "best buy" or "sell by" dates are only the dates when the retailer is required to sell the food by.....it's not when it actually expires...

A lot of food is actually good for a time after the printed date.....the date doesn't mean that BAM! the food all of a sudden expires then & there....

A majority of food poisoning cases really happen from improper food storage or unsanitary handling rather than the food going badly itself....

she´s right
if the food looks and smells normal, you can eat it

hotzie · Nov 16, 2005

only time i look at those dates is in the store , food doesnt last long enough in my house to go bad

jenscats5 · Nov 16, 2005

exotic_island_girl said:
Yeah I've heard that mayo have egg yolk as in ingredient. EWwwwwww.

I dont eat expired food not even when it expired the next day. I immediately throw it out.

All mayo is, basically, is egg yolks + oil.....but it's pasteurized - ie heated to a temp that won't hurt you.

It's a myth that it's the mayo that causes food poisoning in potato salad at picnics - the cause is really the raw veggies or meats.....

ChefWide · Nov 16, 2005

jenscats5 said:
All mayo is, basically, is egg yolks + oil.....but it's pasteurized - ie heated to a temp that won't hurt you.

It's a myth that it's the mayo that causes food poisoning in potato salad at picnics - the cause is really the raw veggies or meats.....

Yepper.

I used to laugh out loud that the suggestion that leaving the SHELLFISH salad in direct sunlight, in 80+ degree heat was dangerous because of the MAYONAISE!?!

sometimes ya gotta wonder about folks....

HiDnGoD · Nov 16, 2005

ChefWide said:
Yepper. I used to laugh out loud that the suggestion that leaving the SHELLFISH salad in direct sunlight, in 80+ degree heat was dangerous because of the MAYONAISE!?! sometimes ya gotta wonder about folks....

It's a case of, "They don't know what they don't know."

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