Help! Accidentally ate 2 months out of date Camembert

[OrdinaryGirl]

For reasons too tiresome to relate, DH and I have accidentally just eaten about a quarter each of a Camembert that to my horror I have just discovered went out of date on 15 OCTOBER. 😱😱😱
I rang NHS 111 and their advice was to just 'watch out for symptoms of food poisoning'.

I've tried to induce vomiting (fingers down throat, salt water) but haven't been able to.

Please can someone out there tell me they have done this and not got ill. 😰

It'll be fine I reckon!

It's 'best before', not 'will kill you after'.

It's cheese FFS

If you haven't been sick by now chances are it will pass through don't induce vomiting if it wasn't green or hairy you stand a chance of being fine

Think of it as extra matured! I'm sure it would have smelled and tasted disgusting if it had gone off

You didn't really ring the NHS line, did you???

It'll be fine, camembert ripens rather than going off.

Nono it was the use by date not best before.
If it was cheddar I wouldn't worry but...soft cheeses. And it was brownish. 😫

I use common sense and my nose about food and am not someone who would chuck something just on the basis of the date.

You rang 111?

Cheese is pretty obvious when it's bad, seriously man.

Just chill.

You rang 111. For CHEESE?!? Peel yourself off the ceiling. It's fine. Cheese ages, it won't kill you.

(Waits for drip feed that OP is immunosuppressed).

Some people purposefully leave Camembert til after the use by date. Apparently.

Hippywannabe I did! I just can't get sick! We have toddler twins and a 5 year old! I was vainly hoping they would give me the correct concentration of salt water that would induce instant hurling.

If you do get sick it will likely be from the salt water rather than the cheese 😀

I would do this & be fine.
Well, I don't esp. like that type of cheese. But if it tasted & smelled ok, I'd be fine. Dunno if OP has special condition.

Honestly, I’d like to think it would be really obvious if it was off. I would have made your fridge reek! To be honest, I can’t stand to have a Camembert in the fridge for more than a day or two, due to the smell.

The only worrying thing is it was brown. Fingers crossed you won’t be ill.

It's cheese, you'll be fine. Cheese is meant to be old. Food doesn't automatically turn rotten as soon as the date flips over. Besides, cheese is pretty much off milk anyway.

Properly ripe camembert, delicious.

All these people saying “it’s just cheese” - you have heard of Listeria, right? It’s rare but can occur in cheeses like Camembert. There’s no need to flame the OP quite so much.

Camembert is stinky anyway but it did taste pretty dreadful.

I was hoping to spare DH, and don't like to drip feed, but...

I bought some lovely President stuff today for baking. Whilst doing bed time for kids, I asked DH to put cheese in the china baking dish thingy and stick it in the oven. Time passed. Got it out the oven and it was quite brown. I assumed it had been in for too long.

Started eating it, with crusty bread and cranberry sauce. Didn't taste good. Texture weird and not gloopy.

Asked DH - 'How long did you leave it in for? It's ever so brown.'
DH: Oh it was brown before I put it in.

Me: CAMEMBERT IS SUPPOSED TO BE PURE WHITE

Dashed to kitchen and found that instead of using the beautiful expensive Camembert I had purchased today and left out on the kitchen counter to come to room temperature, DH had fossicked about in the fridge and found an ancient one at the back that had got lost. A brown one. A BROWN ONE. And put it in the Camembert baker.

If Listeria was there today it was there 2 months ago when still in date Listeria doesn't magic up out of somewhere, there is no such thing as spontaneous generation.

The germs that get you from very 'out of date' food tend to be mould type airborne things. That's why unopened food lasts longer, too.

Phoning NHS direct was a bit much OP.

Is everything else ok? It seems like an overreaction

The last time I had food poisoning it was from a Camembert about 14 years ago. I ate it around 8pm and was violently ill at about 2 the following morning. I don't remember it tasting any different to normal either. Not being a prophet of doom, but you don't deserve to be flamed for being concerned. Hope you and your dh will be ok

So you ate a load of it even though it tasted rank?

Or did you barely eat a nibble & are fretting about your nibble? I don't know what a quarter means (1 oz?). Most of us are robust about withstanding small amounts of bad germs.

I guess that will learn you not to let food fester in back of fridge. Keep better track in future to avoid wasting food.

Lord above

Thankfully I remember from pregnancy that listeria is killed at 80ish degrees C, and it was baked at 180. And listeria is generally mild anyway.

I think I have lost my mind slightly. I'm normally very calm and pragmatic. 😳

Thank you to everyone that's replied. ❤️💐 Luffs Mumsnet. Practical advice and a bracing, big sisterly dose of 'Stop this nonsense at once'.