Advice to calm (?) an emetepjobe

[thaegumathteth]

I get a graze box delivered fortnightly - just ate the lemon and poppyseed cake from the most recent one then realised it had a USE BY date of 27/9 so am
Now panicking I will get sick. They don't use preservatives in their food. (It typically was the only snack with a use by rather than best before date)

Any advice, have been working hard on my anxiety and am trying hard not to spiral.

You’ll be fine (and I’m speaking as a
fellow emetophobe!). All the ingredients in a cake have been baked.

My guess is the only way you’d be ill from an out of date cake is if it had fresh cream on it or actual mould growth that you ate.

No cream and tbh I shoved it in so didn't notice any mould - it's just like a large bite sized piece

No cream and tbh I shoved it in so didn't notice any mould - it's just like a large bite sized piece

It'll be absolutely fine. Remember the thread with the posters husband who ate the sausages that were a week out of date and had been out of the fridge for a day and he was fine

I ate a cheese bap today and halfway through realised there was a bit of mould growing on the bit I was just about to bite into

You will be fine - I’m pretty sure these things have quite a few days grace on the use by dates. I’d be asking for a refund...

Thanks - I do have a sore stomach now but I think it's probably / hopefully anxiety. Ugh I hate being like this.

@KittenKong

You will be fine - I’m pretty sure these things have quite a few days grace on the use by dates. I’d be asking for a refund...

Tbf it arrived before the use by date I just hadn't opened the box

How long did it have when you got it?

Probably a few days Im not sure when it arrived as dh had put it on his desk

Well they can’t expect you to eat it straight away!

It will be fine! The first bad thing that happens to cakes is that they dry out round the edges. I’d definitely eat it 12 hours after it’s “expiry” and I’d probably consider it for several further days after a cursory check/sniff for mould.

After all, if you’d baked it yourself you wouldn’t have an expiry date on it, would you?

You'll be absolutely fine. Home made cakes don't have an expiry date on them (or preservatives in them), it's cooked, and I'm sure there will be leeway on the dates (fellow emetophobe).

Thanks everyone

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