Past date rice pudding?

katie89 · 9 January 2011 at 8:56PM

Hi,
I've just had a cupboard clean out and found a tin of low fat rice pud with a date of Nov 2010 on it. I've been meaning to eat it for ages, but never got round to it

Would it still be ok to eat?

JAG · 9 January 2011 at 8:59PM

Is it Use By or Best Before date?

If Best Before it will be O.K. but if Use By I wouldn't risk eating it.

dzug1 · 9 January 2011 at 9:01PM

If it's a tin there should not be the slightest problem with it.

toneandcaz · 9 January 2011 at 9:03PM

it will be fine if the tin is perfect no dents or rust

Middy · 9 January 2011 at 10:08PM

My mum used a tin of anchovies about 6 weeks ago with a bb of 2001 and were fine. If they were fine, a tin of rice pudding which is 9 weeks past its bb date will be fine too.

Dents should be of a concern if they are on the top/bottom or on the seam of the tin. My dad worked in the canning industry.

xbrenx · 9 January 2011 at 11:13PM

Open the tin, if the rice pudding looks alright and smells alright it will be alright.

Techno · 10 January 2011 at 12:31AM

All the best before date means is that the quality of the product may begin to deteriorate but it's still fine to eat - do what xbrenx suggests and all should be well

alandbailey · 10 January 2011 at 12:42AM

Tinned food was found at the South (or North?) Pole a few years ago. It was found to be perfectly edible. Obviously ensure the tin is not rusty or dented.
I found and consumed some cube sugar left over from the fifties or earlier - it was fine.:)

KimYeovil · 10 January 2011 at 12:57AM

'Low' fat rice pudding is an abomination and regardless of date should be thrown out*.

You can lower your fat intake through adjusting portion size and varying your diet. It should never be done through using silly low-fat or low-sugar alternatives to standard quality produce.

* Obviously I do not think you should do this. But your really should not encourage the fools and should not buy such nonsense in the first place.

PasturesNew · 10 January 2011 at 1:15AM

I'd be eating it if it said 2008. Get it opened ... heat it up ... bang in a huge dollop of jam and scoff it quick!

Enterprise_1701C · 10 January 2011 at 10:46AM

Tinned goods never used to have dates on them, remember them being dragged out of the back of my mum's cupboards years after purchase with her saying "I knew I'd need it one day when I bought it 10 years ago" or something to that effect. The only time I avoid eating tinned things is if the tin in rusty, or if it is blown (inflated due to gasses from decay!), otherwise it is normally fine. It was far better when it was left to common sense as to whether to eat something or not, these days people get food poisoning by eating something because it is in date, regardless of whether it smells/tastes off!!