Food past use by date

One of the local grocery stores sometimes sells soon-to-be-dated dairy products at a hefty discount, so I'll stock up and put a bunch in the deep freeze. I recently used some butter that was six months past the sell-by date; there was no discernible difference in taste, and I didn't keel over from dead butter disease;)

If something looks or smells bad, it gets chucked regardless of date.
 
We recently moved in with our great aunt to help take care of her(94yrs old).
She would buy things and forget she had them and buy more. So I have been eating TV dinners from 2006 to help clean out the freezer. They taste like TV dinners usually taste.
 
Eating fresh sometimes, isn't the best ether. :D

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555 said:
Eating fresh sometimes, isn't the best ether. :D

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The first time we saw JAWS, we went out for dinner after the movie. I ordered grilled shark. ;)



I freeze butter as soon as I buy it. No problems. I would be careful with fish and meat.

There are a lot of threads on the web about "use by" and "best by" dates. I think that how an item is stored makes a big difference. The food that I have the most problems with are crackers and nuts. It seems that they go stale pretty fast once the package is opened.

If it has green hair growing on it, I wouldn't eat it. If it has big teeth, I wouldn't want it to eat me.
 
Most of my food gets eaten quickly around here. I don't stock up much. I'm more inclined to take expired medication. I buy a bottle of aspirin or nasal decongestant, use a few, forget about em and dont look for them until I need them again. 38 y.o. and still kicking!
 
about a year ago me and my dad ate some tuna helper from 1988. I am usually the type that throws stuff away if its a day over the date but the old man always rags on me for it. His favorite is "what would you do if we had a nuclear holocaust, bitch about that date?. "
 
I've got some MRE's from the early 90's , I eat one every six or so months just to make sure they are still good.

They taste a little... off , but I havent gotten sick yet :D
 
I've eaten Parmesan cheese that was five years past expiration, chili that'd been sitting in the uncovered skillet on the stove for over a day and a half, old cheese, and so on. Never had a problem.

The only food poisoning I've ever come down with came from a McDonald's Big Mac. Go figure.
 
I have a buddy who will go to taco bell after the bar, order the double cheezy beefy heart attack, eat half, leave the rest to sit in his 100 degree vehicle all day, and eat it after leaving the bar that next night :barf:.

Also had a half eatin pizza sit in my car for over a full hot summer day and the same dude ate it with enthusiasm.
 
At my late aunt's house there's a never-opened box of Fiber 1 cereal from 1996. I'm tempted to open it just to see how it's held up.

DancesWithKnives
 
+1 LOL Me too!! the green ones!They do taste off, and I always tell myself as I'm waiting to get sick (I haven't) why the F did I keep eating it...lol "everytime" as in more than thrice?:D
Tostig said:
I've got some MRE's from the early 90's , I eat one every six or so months just to make sure they are still good.

They taste a little... off , but I havent gotten sick yet :D
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A friend of mine found a couple cans of SPAM in his camper, they were at least eight years old. We ate one, and I'm still here. Tasted fine . . . for SPAM, that is . . .

thx - cpr
 
one45auto said:
I've eaten Parmesan cheese that was five years past expiration
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LOL! :D We had a 1988 Camry that we bought new. About 5 years later we were having spaghetti for dinner and my daughter sprinkled some Parmesan cheese from a one of those green Kraft cans on hers. When she tasted it she complained that it smelled funny. She looked at the bottom of the can. It had expired in 1986! :eek: She said, "Mom! This cheese is older then your car!" :eek:

Since then, I have only used Parmigiano Reggiano which I grate myself. It's much, MUCH, better then the canned crap.
 
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