Would you cook and eat mince with use by date of yesterday?

[JoanThursday1972]

Or throw it?

Yes, unless you've left it out of the fridge, and even then if it looks smells OK. I assume it is going to be well cooked.

@ScottBakula

It makes me wonder how people nowadays would of survived 10/15 ish years ago when display until / eat by / use by / best before were not a thing . ( or at least not as common )

I don't remember not having dates in food so they have been there a lot longer than 10/15 years.

I would have shopped more often if we didn't have dates though, that way I would know the food was fresh. Every problem has an easy solution.

This ^

Wot @NeatCompactSleeper said

Absolutely

It would be a dreadful waste to do anything else

@nirbil
Perhaps we shopped in different ways , but 10 /15 years ago I bought most if not all of my meat from a local Butcher and veg and fruit from a grocer.
Even now in lots of super markets this is still a option .
I would much rather trust my instinct than a date I have no control over.

For those that stick to dates , if the meat / fish you had just bought was dated until Sunday but when you opened the pack ot smelt off would you still eat it or trust your nose and instinct?
If you would still eat it . . . Good luck !
If not , then why not trust your nose on other occasions .

Also as pp mentioned, food doesn't go off at the stroke of midnight.

Yes, as long as it doesn't look or smell manky. I cooked and ate chicken 2 days past its use by date at the weekend - all fine.

@ScottBakula

Perhaps we shopped in different ways , but 10 /15 years ago I bought most if not all of my meat from a local Butcher and veg and fruit from a grocer.

Well these don't have dates even now so when you mentioned it I was thinking you were taking about the supermarket dates stuff.

Even now in lots of super markets this is still a option .

It's an option I would not choose.

I would much rather trust my instinct than a date I have no control over.

It's not one or the other. It's ok to stick by dates and also apply common sense

For those that stick to dates , if the meat / fish you had just bought was dated until Sunday but when you opened the pack ot smelt off would you still eat it or trust your nose and instinct?

Again, I use common sense and it the food is bad I don't eat it.

If you would still eat it . . . Good luck !
If not , then why not trust your nose on other occasions .

I'm autistic, I don't want to be like this about dates, it I am, so I work with it.

Also as pp mentioned, food doesn't go off at the stroke of midnight.

Indeed, but none of my food ever reached midnight on the day it goes out because I shop carefully to ensure I have food for 3/4 days and nothing goes off.

I realise I am not the same as the majority, but I'm not wrong in doing things how it works for me.