Calling food hygiene experts! Need advice ASAP

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I've a couple sainsburys ready meals in the fridge and before I put my dinner on need to know if one is safe to use. The other has today's date on so I'm in a quandary.

It's a sainsburys love your veg mushroom stroganoff date on it is 17 Nov and it does say use by but I'm wondering...

If not I have a veggie haggis meal with today's date.

Please no judgment on the ready meal aspect as I've been very unwell lately and this has been all I can cope with cooking wise - appetite also not been great.

I would eat it.

It will be absolutely fine.. use by dates assume really poor food storage practices and are partially to get you to buy more

Personally I would bin the out of date one and eat the in date one. As I would only worry.

They will both be fine to eat either today or tomorrow.

It will be fine.

Cheers all - can I ask any of you "experts in the field" I know there's a couple on here that regularly name change.

Reason I don't trust myself on this stuff is OCD - I get a bit paranoid about this stuff

It'll be fine. Eat it. Have the haggis tomorrow. They're both getting nuked, they're both veggie, you'll be OK.

Eat it! It's going to be fine, things really arent that time sensitive.

No micro - I have a habit of blowing those up can't be trusted - being heated in oven. I'm gonna go for it - and blame you lot if it makes me ill

Still alive so far

Ex - Expert in the field here. Will be absolutely fine OP.

I’m a Life science and food science graduate working in the food industry. You’ll be fine. (I’d have eaten it).

Not an expert but still alive after eating quite a lot of past it food over the years. So I hope you're fine.

Thanks for the reassurance genuinely means a lot.

As I say I fret about this stuff. But also can't afford to throw ok food away.

@longwayoff me too!