Biscuits - Best Before Date

kah22

Was doing my normal post Christmas/New Year clean out when I discovered an unopened box of M&S Belgian Collection biscuits the inner wrapper is still in place, the Best Before date was May 17. As that’s only a Best Before date I’m wondering if the biscuits are still OK to eat ?

bouicca21

Only way to find out is to taste ...

Presumably the chocolate looks ok? Hasn't got a whitish bloom?

Katieowl

Yeah I think so, try them. I think the only thing that might be affected is the texture, they may be a bit soft.

[Deleted User]

Best before is for the shop's benefit and re-ordering purposes. It means up to that date the goods are in perfect condition to be sold but the goods may deteriorate slightly in taste or texture from then on. I 've never found any goods like biscuits to have deteriorated at all and we just use up what we have no matter what the best before date says. Use by dates, different but even they are not always the voice of doom for goods stored carefully and in the cool of the fridge, nose and taste will tell us if they're fit to use or not.

[Deleted User]

Give them a taste if they taste odd then bin them but if not you have some more biscuits to eat :)win-win really, even if soft they won't hurt you smash them up and use as a base for cheese cake

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Send them all to me, and at the mill we will carryout some destructive testing for you.

Slinky

How? How have biscuits survived that long - they wouldn't in this house!

And yes I'd eat them.

Pollycat

May 2017?
They're new!

I'd eat them too.
At least, I'd try one and see if they were OK.
I did throw away (my bad as I hate throwing food away ) a pack of cheese biscuits as they were soft (BBE March 2015) but I'm not sure I'd have liked them even if they weren't soft. They were a bit 'claggy'.

suki1964

Hmmm, I found a box of biscuits for cheese and a packet of shortbread in the back of the cupboard from last Christmas

I've a Christmas pud here from at least five years back

Matt_Jones

Use the eye test. If they look ok try your luck. If not then send them over to me and I'll take my chances!

purpleybat

JackieO wrote: »

Give them a taste if they taste odd then bin them but if not you have some more biscuits to eat :)win-win really, even if soft they won't hurt you smash them up and use as a base for cheese cake

my thought too was that they might be too soft to happily scoff but could be recycled into a cheesecake base. if choc topped I probably wouldn't use so much butter in the mix.


my other thoughts were, and I don't know if these will work, was to roughly crumble and add to a plain cookie dough, choc brownie mix etc.
or to use in a sort of tiramisu thing where you soak them in coffee anyway.