Ultimate Use by/sell by challenge

newthrift

I made jelly this morning with some cubes that BBE was Oct 2013, they smelt fine and looked normal so will see later if they have set!
Also, I had 3 slices of bread last night with one small green patch on (I just picked it off) and had gone a little stale, I blitzed them in the blender in to bread crumbs, packed and labeld then froze them, not sure if when I defrost these will actually be any use, can anyone advise? I figured the only other thing I would of done is chuck them so worth trying it haha!

Lilyplonk

.......... think I would have just used them for toasting for supper last night / or 'something on toast' for lunch today, Newthrift .

SailorSam

The ones i find most difficult to understand are on bottles of water .......
.....'This water is millions of years old and has been filtered by the natural rocks absorbing minerals since the start of time. ... Use by Tuesday.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Gosh, these items are fresh, compared to our Dark treacle in 2012 for the Christmas Pudding. Expired October 2007! Well matured!

Farway

I had a pack of Lidl microwave rice last night, BBE Jan 2013. Still here of course

Butterfly_Brain

Just made a huge batch of flapjacks using museli dated Dec 2013. DS says they are awesome but he does have hollow legs and is biased :rotfl::rotfl:

v8monkeyboy

We're having crab and rice noodles tonight. Fresh crab; the noodles have a BB date of June 2004. They taste fine though....

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When in 1982 my late OH was working in the Sudan he went to a maket with the houseboy to buy some tinned goods in Khartoum.Whilst there he spotted some tinned corned beef and on the box which he bought it said 'a present from the Republic of Argentina' 1948.Needless to say it was opened and used to make corned beef fritters for all the guys in the compound.The Sudenese cook was facinated by the idea of cooking meat in a batter.My OH taught him how to make the batter (livened up with a tin of guiness ) and it all went down a treat. He said it made a nice change from curried goat which seemed to be what the cookboy made 7 nights a week..When he used to come home on leave, I would buy a couple of pound of bacon and freeze it solid so when he flew back after his leave was up he would take a package of bacon with him frozen solid, and it was cooked as soon as he got to the compound.One chap brought some brown HP sauce back from the UK but it had turned into a syrup mush by the time he got back to the compound :)The tempreture during the day at times was 45c plus so food had to be used fairly quickly and most of it was tinned.

PlymouthMaid

Great thread - I am a bit of a family legend as I laugh in the face of most sell by/use by dates. This evening I have enjoyed my mangos in juice dated Oct 13 but that does not beat my personal best of some Chocolate Philadelphia which turned out to be a whole year out of date. It had not been opened so somehow was fine although that makes me worry in itself; surely not normal so what on earth is in it?

HOWMUCH

Born in 1955 when we were kids tinned food didn't have any dates on. Any food didn't have dates on. A girl used to work with me threw her veg out because it was always going out of date. I have yet to buy veg from a greengrocers with dates on. I told her to throw it my way and I'd either use it as veg or turn it into soup. Guess what after she'd eaten my soups, my supply from her dried up and she started making soup for her lunches.
We used tins unless they were blown (Bulge on either end)
Other items you used your eyes and taste and smell to let you know if you could eat them.
I still do this.