Do you follow Use by and Sell by Dates, and other food safety issues

cyberbob

sharloid wrote: »

I I have started eating things slightly past the date, not throwing eggs the day before they're due to go off

Eggs have a past date? We get ours from a farm up the road. As long as there not rotten they get used. I've never a clue how long i've had them

Cheese is mold!

That's my argument too

Optimisticpair

cyberbob wrote: »

I have been known to cut mold off cheese and use the rest,

Cake mix mmm

Use by date - What's one of them?

A supermarket I worked at, many years ago, took blown packets and ones with mould off the shelf, cut off the dodgy bits, grated it and sold it as grated cheese.

Justamum

dandy-candy wrote: »

When i'm making cakes at home I still eat the mix from the bowl before washing up even though the egg in it is raw...

I happily nibble at leftovers from lunch that have been sitting on the side all afternoon instead of put in the fridge...

My DD1 was making a cake yesterday. We only make vegan food at home, and she told me that when they were making cakes at school she and a friend who were both making vegan cakes were the only ones eating the raw cake mix because all the others were scared of eating the mix with egg in it! I'm sure there are millions of us who grew up fighting over who was going to lick out the bowl after mum made a cake :rotfl:

We had some food left over from dinner last night, which I left on top of the cooker. I ate it a few hours ago as it seemed a waste to throw it away.

I never put jam in the fridge and it keeps for weeks (months probably).

Justamum

Sorry to be picky, but it's mould, not mold! (I do try to keep English, not American!)

teenee60

use by date!?!
best thing about dates on food is that they reduce the price in the shop,then i can do a meal around that, so 3 cheers for dates on food.
But raw cake mix=what baking is for
mould on cheese=cut it off
never done mouldy jam though!!
potatoes in the sack have loads of spruts on them,knock em off.

floss2

talulahbeige wrote: »

People who say this about not re-heating rice always make me laugh.

Egg freid rice is traditionally made with cooked rice that has been chilled!

It is, but is has been reheated at a high temperature to make into fried rice.

Any rice dish that has been reheated to a not quite high enough temperature, can give you a very nasty bout of food poisoning. I know because I suffered it for 4 days. And it was not pleasant.

tattycath

Great thread!!!. I was a 70s kid too OP!!
I eat Jam until it's either all gone or tastes winey-and if it gets mouldy i throw it away.
I cut mould off cheese-well i used to, my OH and gthe kids eat cheese like there's no tomorrow.
I never throw food away if it's on the sell by date-I've even been known to eat yoghurt a couple of weeks or so out of date.
In lean times i've cut mould off bread and eaten the rest
Eaten food off the floor-you'll eat more muck than that before you die-so my dad used to say. lol
Raw cake mixture is yummy
I uase eggs well past their date-as long as they sink in the water test for freshness. Even if they stand on their ends in the bowl of water I'll use them as long as they don't float.
If i can't quite tell whether a piece of meat is ok or not i've been known to cook it and then smell it-if it smells fine we eat it and if it smells dodgy we chuck it!!!
I've been known to use tinned stuff up to a year out of date-they never used to have dates on and were kept in the cupboard for ages and still used.
Herbs and spicdes seem to keep for ever-until the other week when my other half had a clear out and threw loads of them away-so i'm now re-stocking!!! and he is banished from touching them!!! :-)
Oh and i use potatoes until they're soft or green-sprouts get knocked off.

elliecarr

Well, I did hampers for Christmas presents this last year. In July (09) made some lovely cherry jam to go in them. Luckily I caught it before they went out - by December they had a bit of mould on the top. I scraped, thinking "well I'm not wasting it, and we do it with ours!". Then gave them away. Probably ought to have mentioned it to those receiving mind...

guccigoo

laughing at some of the things on this thread. I never use eggs before there sell by date, ive been known to have eggs in my fridge 3 months out of date. i keep tom sauce in the cupboard not the fridge also jam kept in the cupboard. I eat cold takeaway pizza the next day even if i havent put it in the fridge and im still here:)

lilac_lady

When I read the posts about using food after the "use by" date my phobia kicks in and I shudder. I'd save a fortune if I did that but somehow can't bring myself to eat anything past the relevant date. Am I the only one here with this money wasting habit?