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

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  • Elliesmum
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    I've been eating cold beans and spag out of tins for years and never been ill...

    I'm mad as a box of frogs mind you - but never been ill :rotfl:

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  • pigpen
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    so long as you use cutlery.. drinking them out of the tin you run the risk of slicing your face and ending up looking like the Joker
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    Epidemiology tells us it's safe....but it's about as far away from delicious as you can get.
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  • Molly41
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    Try cold bean or spaghetti/ sausages in a sandwich - gotta be white bread - to die for :T:T:T (but only when hormonal - which is now judging by my mouth watering) :eek::eek::eek:
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  • Cat501
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    pigpen wrote: »
    so long as you use cutlery.. drinking them out of the tin you run the risk of slicing your face and ending up looking like the Joker


    Hmmmm - guilty as charged! At least for the leftover sauce at the bottom...:o

    Molly41 - that sounds interesting! One to try in the future. On a diet so I won't try it tonight. I won't. I really won't.:eek:
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    er - I didnt realise you could warm up tinned rice pudding until I got married and my OH insisted on hot rice pudding! not that hot rice pudding isnt nice - but I still prefer it cold (with sugar sprinkled on top).
  • sophlowe45
    sophlowe45 Posts: 1,559 Forumite
    What about tinned chickpeas, red kidney beans,butterbeans, sweetcorn etc? Can you just rinse those and eat them?
  • Middy
    Middy Posts: 5,394 Forumite
    sophlowe45 wrote: »
    What about tinned chickpeas, red kidney beans,butterbeans, sweetcorn etc? Can you just rinse those and eat them?

    Yes. Saves on soaking them overnight. Can't believe you can still buy dried pulses. I remember the days when Mum made a chilli and had the kidney beans in a pyrex bowl soaking.
  • Hi

    Does anyone know if exp 2011.. dated gravy granules are still ok to use?

    :o got to say smells ok

    Many thanks and appreciate any replies if tried & tested!
  • Farway
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    They will be fine, just make up a small half mug to check they still thicken OK

    Mine are always out of date & TBH I never even considered not using them
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