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  • marmiterulesok
    marmiterulesok Posts: 7,812 Forumite
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    I have just come across several unopened sachets of agar-agar.The best before date was April 2006.Do you think I should just bin it?

    Thanks.
  • Penelope_Penguin
    Penelope_Penguin Posts: 17,225 Forumite
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    marmiterulesok wrote: »
    I have just come across several unopened sachets of agar-agar.The best before date was April 2006.Do you think I should just bin it?

    Thanks.

    no ideas but wondering what you bought it for - has it other uses that culturing microbiological samples :)
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  • marmiterulesok
    marmiterulesok Posts: 7,812 Forumite
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    Penelope_Penguin wrote: »
    no ideas but wondering what you bought it for - has it other uses that culturing microbiological samples :)

    I bought them with the idea of making jellies,as I don't eat jelly made with traditional gelatine (I'm a vegetarian).

    I think I might just bin them.It would be too annoying to make a jelly that didn't set.I bought some sachets today.I might just manage to use them this time:o,got until August 2012!
  • sazzy6
    sazzy6 Posts: 342 Forumite
    A bought some Bramley apple tarts from Tesco on the 7th from the reduced isle. In the meantime I forgot all about them and have just found them at the back of the fridge 4 days out of date.

    They were reduced from £3.50 to 40p so it won't be a too much of a wrench to through them out!

    They don't smell and look ok to me, should I eat them?
  • sammyjammy
    sammyjammy Posts: 8,063 Forumite
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    sazzy6 wrote: »
    A bought some Bramley apple tarts from Tesco on the 7th from the reduced isle. In the meantime I forgot all about them and have just found them at the back of the fridge 4 days out of date.

    They were reduced from £3.50 to 40p so it won't be a too much of a wrench to through them out!

    They don't smell and look ok to me, should I eat them?


    Do you mean they DO look ok and smell ok? If so then I would eat them. Well maybe not all four, oh go on then I'll have three!
    "You've been reading SOS when it's just your clock reading 5:05 "
  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere Posts: 752 Forumite
    They've probably got so much sugar in they'd keep for a year!
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    Cut one open and make sure there's no mould on the fruit filling.

    What on earth sort are they for £3.50? Or was it a box of two dozen or something?
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • sazzy6
    sazzy6 Posts: 342 Forumite
    Bogof_Babe wrote: »
    Cut one open and make sure there's no mould on the fruit filling.

    What on earth sort are they for £3.50? Or was it a box of two dozen or something?

    There are 2 smallish tarts - they were the finest restaurant collection. They do look good but would only get them when reduced.

    Well they are in the oven (fingers crossed they taste ok)
  • babyshoes
    babyshoes Posts: 1,771 Forumite
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    Ah, if you are heating them up, as long as they are properly hot through, and they didn't smell or look funny/mouldy, you will probably live.
    Trust me - I'm NOT a doctor!
  • Desperate_Housewife_2-2
    Desperate_Housewife_2-2 Posts: 1,787 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    I would eat them if they look and smell ok, good idea to heat them very hot to kill any germs..
    Save £12k in 2012 no.49 £10,250/£12,000
    Save £12k in 2013 no.34 £11,800/£12,000
    'How much can you save' thread = £7,050
    Total=£29,100
    Mfi3 no. 88: Balance Jan '06 = £63,000. :mad:
    Balance 23.11.09 = £nil. :)
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