To put a yogurt with yesterdays date in her lunch box?

[lollyheart]

It's the last one.

I feel abit bad now

She'll be right. I've done it, but decanted it into a different tuppyware style tub.
DD told me last week that the roll I'd sent in with her had mould on it. I asked her what she had done and she told me she'd picked it off.

I gave DS a yoghurt that was a day past the date last week. It was 9.30am and I thought it had only been a few hours since midnight so couldn't really see the harm.

It doesn't instantly rot after on the date shown so sure it will be fine.

You are not the only one doing stuff like this I'm sure

I always feel that yoghurt is off milk in the first place so never take any notice of the best before date we are still eating ones dated end of september and are all okay.

Lizcat, that's for beginners. We've had yoghurt that was a month or more out of date. we used to have a really big fridge and stuff got lost. Now we have a tiddly stuff and stuff gets squashed.

I'm with you Lizcat! Don't worry about it - we regularly eat yoghurts well after the date.

Yoghurts are fine well past their Use By, don't feel bad. Would be worse if you put it in the bin!

I'm often serving up yoghurt a week after its Use By date - always have a taste first myself to make sure it's not "fizzy" though! Not sure I'd put it in a school lunchbox - might make me officially a "Bad Mother".

I love the image of kreechers dd picking off the mould - what a star, my kids would freak!

Thanks everyone.

I feel better now

I wonder if the school will let her eat it

I sent dd2 in with a yoghurt that was a day past its sell by and they wouldn't let her eat it.

I was tres when she came home and told me that her teacher had said she wasn't allowed to eat it (and I don't think she did it particularly discreetly)

I wouldn't worry about dd eating a yoghurt a day after the use by date.

But, dh wouldn't let her. He once rang me at work to say he had to go and buy some eggs for his lunch because the one's in the fridge were 2 days past their best before date. He got the hump when I explained the cigerette he smoked after his lunch would do a lot more harm than the eggs that were 2 days out of date.

It will be fine I often eat yoghurts a day or two past thier use by dates.

I used to do this till a TA kindly pointed out the date to dd who was about 6 yo at the time and told her not to eat it . Ever since then dd and ds are date 'aware' grrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

I often eat yogurt (and other things) past its sell by date. I have put them in DD's lunch box too.

I always use common sense when it comes to food, I wouldn't eat chicken or something past it's use by date but other things are fine, I normally just smell them first or have a little taste.

My ma used to tell us that yoghurt that had gone fizzy was 'special' and we were very lucky. Strange woman. There was no real pattern of abuse though so I'll put it down to being quirky.

I wouldn't, but then that's because I have "ishoos" stemming from getting horrific food poisoning from off milk at work. Incidentally it was previously unopened and within it's best before date when I had some, so I was just unlucky (and it tasted foul and only had one mouthful).

However, it's made me totally paranoid about out of date foods, so I would say YANBU, just braver than me lol.

My DD came home a few weeks ago and told me she hadn't eaten her yoghurt as it was 2 months past the sell by date! We have a big fridge in which things get lost. She is obsessed with bloody sell by dates. I am not. Remember at school years ago someone bringing in a very lumpy looking yoghurt - so what did we do - passed it round the whole table and dared everyone to have a slurp - nothing wrong with it!

Def not BU

Yogurt is milks first leap towards immortality- we often use stuff 2 or 3 weeks past. I didnt even realise the frubes were 2 weeks past but they are fine too.

I would be really irritated if school sent it home not allowing them to eat it- thats really out of order

Its best before, not will explode and kill you after!!!

"I sent dd2 in with a yoghurt that was a day past its sell by and they wouldn't let her eat it." A day or two makes no difference to a yoghurt. Goodness knows what they would think of me if they looked in ds' lunchbox sometimes. I buy frubes or similar tube things and stick whole load in the freezer. I take them out on the day and they defrost in his box by lunch. They are often 'out of date' by a long way by the time I get to the end but they are not really because the date is based on fridge storage.

I once gave my 13 month old son a three months out of date vanilla Slimfast can... so don't sweat it honey.

Yoghurt is off milk to start with. Don't worry about it.

YANBU, how does the yoghurt know what date/ day it is meant to be used by

slimfast was he on a diet?

Out of date yoghurt is fine as long as it doesn't move all by itself.