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

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

lilian1977 wrote: »

Haha - thanks! I have a recipe to use them in, just didn't know whether 4 days on they would be ok...

. If you have used them then we can as well.

If you have not used them yet, we wait in hope.

zippychick

ive merged this with our food safety thread

ZIP

Owain_Moneysaver

Got some 50p strawberries tonight :j

was going through them and a couple were a bit furry. I've chucked the furry ones, ate half the punnet (and feel fine 3 hours later), washed the rest and put them in the freezer thinking that freezing will kill any mould spores remaining.

reckon I'll be alive or dead tomorrow?

Farway

You will be alive

Furry strawbs will not kill you, they will taste so awful & musty you would spit them out first

Justamum

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Got some 50p strawberries tonight :j

was going through them and a couple were a bit furry. I've chucked the furry ones, ate half the punnet (and feel fine 3 hours later), washed the rest and put them in the freezer thinking that freezing will kill any mould spores remaining.

reckon I'll be alive or dead tomorrow?

You'll be alive - bit of penicillin on the stawbs won't kill you. Frozen ones don't defrost well though - they'll turn to mush. I don't know how you managed to resist eating the whole punnet - I would have

Owain_Moneysaver

They tasted all right, but had turned to mush.

I was being moneysaving and splitting the punnet between dinner and breakfast. Next time I'll just be piggy.

Peabel

Ooooo Make your mushy strawberry stuff into compote to have with your muesli/porridge/cereal. Someone I know goes to the market at closing time and buys up all the "past best" stuff for this purpose.

That is, unless you have been poisoned, and then you probably wont feel like breakfast?

chocoholic_chick

I fancy trying to make some fudge and have found 2 tins of condensed milk in the cupboard. The only problem is they've been in the cupboard for a LONG time and the best before dates are May 2011 and June 2011.

Do you think they would be ok to use or should I not risk it??

Possession

I would open them and as long as they smell OK I would use them. And no doubt have at some point!

suzybloo

Glad someone else asked this - I have three tins all out of date last October and I am loathe to throw them out. Will make chocolate coconut truffles and millionaire shorty with them now :-)