Archive:Quick Questions on food safety / sell by / use by dates

lil_me

Puddlegum - I'd have probably fished them out, wiped them and used them too

I'd rather have sell by as a guide but trust my nose and mouth, I can't cope with the smell never mind the taste of anything that has gone off which helps. Oh apart from milk, I check with someone else as it always smells off to me as I don't like it, pleurgh!

Frenchgirl

Hi anyone know about coffee? I found a packet of filter coffee with a run out of date of last year. I dont really want to throw it away. Any ideas? Thank you.

jexygirl

hi ya,
I agree with all - dates are very much a "cover our !!!" thing. If it smells, tastes and looks ok, then nothing wrong with eating it - I am a long way from my old "if it has a day to go, its too close for me" attitude.
Alot of stuff we buy is already weeks old by the time it hits the shop, and as another poster stated, its done companies alot of good this whole sell by /use by thing.
Use by for me means use by common sense best before =ignore, it might be best in there opinion, but for me, its still good by my senses, and sell by = shop need to get rid of it by then and its up to the customer and to cover ourselves lets give it a week or 2 after the date just in case = back to common sense
The polish girl that works here, eats yoghurts not by date, but if they are not "blown" ie if the lid isnt forced up by pressure, then she eats them, I cringe, and in 2,5 years she has yet to have a day off sick, despite 5 week out of date yogs!
She has the constitution of an ox !
Jex

angelpye

Hi guys, picking your brains if that's ok in a sort of 'poll' type of way.... i am making cornflake cakes with my daughter tomorrow to use up some of the chocolate overflowing from christmas and the golden syrup in the cupboard is out of date. It's tate and lyle (if that makes any difference! Lol!) and says best before nov 2008!!! :eek: Now my question is do i use it? I mean what is syrup - sugar is my guess, so can it really go off? Would you use it? I fit was just me and mine and cheap chocolate then I probably would just risk it but my dd wants to take to school and its really nice chocolate that already feels a little extravagant going in cakes but i need to get rid as my hips cant take it and my will power got lost long ago!

Many thanks

Penelope_Penguin

1 vote for use it

Newbird

Yeh another vote to use it up it will be ok.

purpleivy

as long as it is 'clean' i.e noone has licked their spoon then dug in again, or other contaminants it should be fine to use.

MsRed1

Another vote to use it.

newleaf

It will be fine

floyd

Unless it looks cloudy I would use it