So I've found some out of date tins...which would you eat?

[Wanderlust21]

I guess something good has come of the recent state of affairs in that I've finally had a look through my tins' cupboard lol.

Found some stuff that is out of date, would you risk any/all of these:

Vegetable soup dated dec 2018
Fruit cocktail jam 2017
Peach slices Sept 2017
Beef ravioli feb 2019

Also Thai green curry sauce(aldi) bbe March 2018
And apple chutney July 2017.

And coconut milk, one month outta date too lol.

I think the soup should be fine right? but the curry has fish sauce so guessing it defo needs chucked lol.

I use my common sense (no dents or blown out, etc) and go by look, taste and smell for everything.

I take no notice of best before dates, etc. All that might happen is that you lose some of the flavour and it's a bit bland.
As I've never been ill from doing so, I will carry on.
I've used a tin well over 12 years out of date with no issues (just something bought on a whim that I never fancied eating... think spam/game soup).

I apply the same to all packets, dried food, fresh food, meat, eggs, etc.

They’ll all be fine I’m sure

Tip for eggs.

Place the raw egg in a bowl of water. If the egg lays on its side at the bottom, it is still quite fresh. If the egg stands upright on the bottom, it is still fine to eat, but should be eaten very soon, or hard-boiled. If the egg floats to the top, it's past its prime, and not good for eating.

www.thekitchn.com/how-to-test-eggs-for-freshness-how-to-find-out-tips-from-the-kitchn-46368

Dd's childminder had 6 children of her own and also minded dd and her nephew. She used to get just out of date loaves of bread from somewhere (a shop maybe?) and it would all be eaten in a day. They were never sick (dd included, though I am strictly observant of BBE dates).

Again, all of them.

However, I did pick up a lot of tips from exMiL (who, despite being ex and despite the even more heinous crime of being a MiL, was a lovely person) who was brought up during the war and had a way with leftovers.
She never threw anything out and reckoned (often rightly) that a bit of cheese sauce covered a multitude.

Even she went too far sometimes: the infamous chicken stock (made from scraping chicken bones off people's plates after dinner), hot wine punch (made with dregs out of people's glasses after a very generous wine tasting) and "slightly out of date" yoghurt (that was fizzy and hung in strings from the spoon*) were cases in point.

If nothing else, the CV problem will educate DH who wouldn't dream of touching leftovers: always used to eat a whole pot/sachet of microwaveable soup/rice (meant for two) because - I've just discovered - actually wouldn't know how to heat up just half w/o the instructions!
Also, he'll buy something enough for two lunches but then get something different the next day because he's "bored" with the previous day's offering.
So it goes off or - more often - I eat it.

Funnily, ex-MiL was very rich, DH's family well off but not in the same league.

Is this how the rich become rich?

*Hey, I ate it. It was a long time ago and ex H was merely DBF then and I wanted to make a good impression.

And here I still am.
Wasn't even sick.

Is this how the rich become rich? The author of The Latte Factor seems to think so!

I'm a recovered hoarder and a couple of months ago I threw out a bunch of old cup-a-soups, instant couscous etc, best before circa 2014. Bizarrely, I'm now regretting this, as the inadequate fag-end of our No Deal stockpile may have to last up to 12 weeks! If I were the OP I'd keep all the tins (bear in mind I'm a hoarder though) and eat them in declining order of likely disgustingness. Chances are they will all be perfectly fine. I've only ever had to discard rusted tins (stupidly stored in a cupboard under a draining board) and one dented tin whose contents were fizzy.

I’d eat them all .... after a sniff test. I’ve never known food from an undamaged tin to be “off”.

If I ate beef, I'd eat all of them

I don't, so I'd eat the others.

I never check the dates on tinned food, and I'm sure I've eaten tins just as out of date as those, if not more so.

@Charlottejbt if it helps, couscous does not keep well, and almost definitely would not have been pleasant to eat.

Don't ask me how I know

I'd eat them all.

Open and sniff first of course, but I think they'll be fine.

My uncle ate beef spaghetti Bol that was 4 years best before. He's fine. As long as they are best before not use by I'd eat them all.

I'd eat all of them. Just make sure none of the tins look oddly bulging or blown - last year when on a long-overdue cupboard tidy, I found some tins of lychees that had moved house with us (and therefore were about 9 years old ) and they had blown out at the tops and were dripping syrup. Bloody messy.

I would probably draw the line at 9 year old tins now.