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

faerie~spangles

Butter - put a wee bit in a ramekin on the worktop

Eggs - on the worktop on a wrought iron thingy

Tomatoes - a few at a time live in a bowl on the worktop. They taste so much better at room temp'.

Open jars/ bottles live in the fridge except peanut butter, honey and Marmite.

Cheese - lives in the fridge. If I have bagged some bargains then it gets frozen.

Potatoes, root veg and onions live in jute bags in the cupboard in the close.

zippychick

New thread.

Blue_Elephant

We opened a packet on Saturday and put it in a tupperware box in the fridge - will it still be ok for sandwiches for tomorrow?

I know nothing about fish really so please help!

kazmeister

Yes - I have kept packets open in the fridge for longer and after a couple of weeks if still not eaten cold then i make a smoked salmon tagliatelle

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Better still, go for a Whitby Breakfast. Three medium eggs, from the butchers, add splash of milk. Scramble in ommlette pan. Add strips of smoked salmon, with bits of wilted spinach.

Serve on hot buttered toast

I have just seen advert on tv for eggs at some essential supermarket emporium. £1.45. what, my local butcher, £1.15.

Blue_Elephant

Thank you both!! TILAMS that sounds awesome, but its for a work packed lunch so may not be possible and am thinking sandwiches . will bear in mind for a Sunday Brunch though

meritaten

do the sniff test and dont forget that sarnies may not be kept under the coldest conditions!

homealone_2

i am also trying to live on cupboards and freezer. however, when i stock my head at the of the fridge 3 tins were daring me to eat them. two of them were sainsburys chicken breast in jelly dated nov 2011 and the other was a tin of pataks madras sauce dated feb 2012, the madras one also had a small amount of what looked like rust at the moment. is it safe to eat these or should i just put it down to experience and through them away heart breaking as it may be

PixieDust

Are these tins which have been opened.....not sure why they're in the fridge otherwise. If the meat products have been opened then they have to go....otherwise I'm not sure.

The sauce....again, i s it an open tin or jar?

homealone_2

PixieDust wrote: »

Are these tins which have been opened.....not sure why they're in the fridge otherwise. If the meat products have been opened then they have to go....otherwise I'm not sure.

The sauce....again, i s it an open tin or jar?

thanks, no. none of the tins are opened i think they ended up in the fridge as i ran out of cupboard space, anyone else around have any ideas?