to have made DH throw away this chicken...

[banana87]

Just went into the kitchen where DH was preparing dinner. I am 30 weeks pregnant so slightly heightened sense of smell. It smelled of diarrhea. Went over to the (raw) chicken sitting in the pan and smelled. Stank of diarrhea. DH insisted it didn't smell and "chicken always smells when it comes out of it's packet". Date on packet 13th September. A complete meltdown later (on my part ) and the chicken is now in the outside bin, DH now cursing under his breath as he starts another dish. AIBU or was DH right?

• chicken, whether slightly off or full blown rotten, has a particularly vomit inducing smell!

YANBU. I ignore use by dates on veg etc but take them much more seriously on meat, and especially chicken. Although whatever the use-by date says, if it smells, I bin it. Including chicken that was within date, in the past.

Oh thats awful. How could he feed you and your baby almost a week out of date chicken. Good God!!!!!! What a moron.
Supermarkets have got us to believe that doing a big shop is the way to go, that way you have stuff sitting in the fridge going out of date. Much better to shop for smaller amounts more frequently. Bastard supermarkets. Grrrrr

I'm sure i've read somewhere that morning sickness and heightened sense of smell during pregnancy have evolved for exactly this reason.

Yanbu. I would be horrified if dh was planning to feed all of us smelly, six days past its date chicken. Yuk! Fresh chicken doesn't really have a smell. Does he not realise that food poisoning can be very dangerous when you're pregnant?

I'd have had a meltdown too.

I'm very relaxed about printed dates but if it smells bad it's not good to eat.

Nope, you were absolutely right. I have had food poisoning from meat we thought was probably alright but was a day past it's use by before and it was bloody vile. Not worth the risk, especially when you are pregnant.

I use use by dates as a guide, but I look and smell meat. Chicken doesnt smell bad before it's gone off, it just smells a bit eggy.
But out of date (by a long way) and smelly... no chance...
and I agree with Hammerhead :)

YANBU. Fresh chicken doesn't smell. This wasn't fresh. Not worth the risk.

YADNBU. Bleurgh to stinky chicken.

I have a rule of thumb: if you can smell it, it's not fit to eat.

Did you see Bang Goes the Theory this evening? Chicken breeds bacteria sooooo easily...

YANBU. I have had food poisoning once from undercooked but fresh chicken and that was absolutely vile.

I defrosted a chicken yesterday - I'd frozen it well within date but when I opened it, it smelt wrong, so was promptly binned.

Better safe than sorry.

Def not BU. I've ginned chicken within its date too. That's why God gave us noses (as my slightly barking RC Granny would often say).

binned not ginned. Cos that would be even boakier.