A big tub of flavoured yoghurt to use TODAY

kiss_me_now9

Spudsey wrote: »

Ah I feel better now! The date was actually up yesterday, but thought I would put today just in case any hounded me for eating out of date food!

I have eaten yoghurt a good few days out of date so I think I may just eat it over the next two. And ban the other half from buying any this week!

I feel like I am the queen of this - most of the time, if it's not mouldy, it's not dangerous (meat or egg based) and it tastes ok I'll eat it no matter what the date is.

Had to have a go at my poor OH the other week when he threw a perfectly good pepper out 'because the packaging said it went out of date yesterday'. He still needs some training!

Emm-in-a-pickle

My veg man at the farm shop told me he`d seen wild bird seed marked down at the wholesalers as it was on its sell-by date!
I`ve bought growing herbs and a chilli plant past their sell-by dates too - the Greek basil, chives, and oregano are still going strong now in planters outside, and the chilli plant recovered and has since flowered again twice! It was months ago when these were all deemed `past it`. Criminal waste IMHO to bin what is still good.

bluebag

This_Year wrote: »

Where I used to work there was one girl who took it upon herself to be fridge monitor and would regularly chuck out any food on or a day over it's date without asking the owner (all food was labelled so it was obvious whose it was).

Until the day that her lunch vanished out of the fridge and was eventually discovered in the bin (tupperware box too!). She never touched the food in the fridge after that. I wish I knew who had done that - was always sorely tempted myself! Would have thanked them.

OMG, The cheeky madam. The trouble is you couldn't really have a go at her because all your co-workers would probably be very 'anti' expired food. Puts ya on the spot a bit.

I thought the government was going to sort out all this best before nonsense and just have a use by date.

VfM4meplse

Emm-in-a-pickle wrote: »

My veg man at the farm shop told me he`d seen wild bird seed marked down at the wholesalers as it was on its sell-by date!
I`ve bought growing herbs and a chilli plant past their sell-by dates too - the Greek basil, chives, and oregano are still going strong now in planters outside, and the chilli plant recovered and has since flowered again twice! It was months ago when these were all deemed `past it`. Criminal waste IMHO to bin what is still good.

Ditto my basil this year - I bought it on its last legs for pennies and have made many a jar of pesto from it this summer. It continues to flourish but I know it's days are numbered

This_Year

We bought some plums in Asda for 10p about 3 weeks ago as they were on their BB date. OK they've been in our fridge since we bought them but they are still rock hard and in no way ready to eat.

Except I've just used half of them in a clafoutis (to use up the cream which is BB yesterday)

May take them out of the fridge and put them with the tomatoes (seem to remember that will hasten ripening)

melanzana

This BB date is a joke. It is manufacturers or suppliers protecting themselves against litigation should someone decide to sue when they get food poisoning!

Surely, you know when something is off?

I have used milk, yogurt, eggs, etc. well beyond the date advised. As for meat...well, I had steak mince that I made into bolognaise sauce on Monday last. It was BB Tuesday the 24/9. I forgot to pack up and freeze, so sniffed and used it, up to yesterday. Then bagged the rest for the freezer. It was absolutely fine.

Just shows. I often wonder how they coped years ago, prior to bb dates etc!

Savannah02K

I've never done this but I have eaten it and it's great. My pal uses out of date to make mousses which she then freezes. She pours yoghurt into mixing bowl, then makes up a jelly (or half pack of same), lets it cool a bit and then pours that on top of the yog. Uses electric mixer to beat together, apparently it looks curdled at first but soon gets past that, then she pours mixture into small moulds, leaves to set in fridge and then freezes the mixture.

lucylema

i have used yoghurt as a marinade for spicy chicken before. Just mix the spices together in the sauce, knife splits in the chicken and then cover the chicken with the yoghurt mix x