Fresh gnocchi one day past its use by date - would you eat it?

[IHeartKingThistle]

So cross at myself - been cooking really carefully and using everything up.

Do you reckon the gnocchi will be OK to eat or best not to?

gnocchi has a use by date???

You'll be fine OP

It's mainly potato, so it will be fine to eat.

This kind of post makes me despair, it's I really don't understand the obsession of adults with eyes and noses with consulting the internet with these questions.

Does anyone really think that food has some kind of magic that it knows what the date is.

Look at it, smell it and decide. Would you happily eat something rotten but well within it's use by date? At the moment when there are people who can't get enough food use some commen sense.

Absolutely fine.
I have made a very small inventory of my food by expiry date and hung it on the fridge so I try and prevent this but we did eat chicken 1 day out of date yesterday because it was stuck in the back and I missed it.

Wouldn't even occur to me not to, providing it looked and smelled like normal.

• Trust your senses - nose and eyes. Don't waste food.*

This ^ wot @prokupa said

These dates are mostly for stock control. If I had two packets, I would always use the 'older' first.

Yes one day if it smelt and looked alright. I wouldn't on day 2. Things don't automatically go off the second the date changes. But obviously it's better to eat it 8 hours later than 18 hours later

With chicken I find sometimes it's gone off the day before the use by but you can always smell it because it smells dreadful, otherwise a day is usually fine, a couple for some things

I have a pro-tip for you all. If you need reading glasses, forget to put them on when you are getting things out of the fridge - that way you won't be able to read the use-by/best before dates, and you won't worry.

You are welcome.

Seriously - I would open the gnocchi, and give them a sniff - if they don't smell bad, I'd use them.

I grew up before sell by and use by dates, and learned from my mum how to tell if something was OK or not. She used to have a special cup that had lost its handle, that she kept for cracking eggs into, one by one, so she could sniff them before using them. It only got retired when we got our own chickens, and she knew exactly how old her eggs were!

Hell yes. Now more than ever.

We ate it! It was yummy and I felt good about not chucking it away. Go me.