to be fuming that after we had all eaten our beef stew lunch MiL announced she's made it on Thursday morning.

[AAAvegetable]

Thanks MiL, what I really need tonight is a bout of food poisoning to hit all of us together.

How rude. I would never serve guests meat that I prepared four days previously.

Drip...drip...drip...

if it wasn't hot enough, what was stopping you getting off your arse and zapping it for a bit longer ?

Oooh, that would make me a bit jittery too.

YABU its absolutely fine if its been in the fridge. My FIL ate a 7 day left over lasagna and he was fine (he is a GP so should know what he is doing).

AnyFucker - ironically given the reactions on this thread, what was stopping me was a desire not to look precious/rude/OCD like. Ha ha ha.

I wish someone would be so kind as to make me a lovely stew.I could just eat some.I always make huge pans of stew to then reheat sometimes adding chilli powder and serving with rice a few days later and we have always been fine.Yummmmm

It doesn't need to be reheated at all, you could (although wouldn't want to) eat it cold.
If you cook beef and put it in the fridge you can eat it for at least three days with out reheating.
Think about a Christmas ham. You'd cook it before xmas day put it in the fridge and eat over Christmas period would you not? Most ham would last a week or so.

Ah,AAAvegetable,you think your Mother-in-Law is rude,and you think we are rude too.

The moral of the story?Don't eat at Mils house,and don't post a thread asking 'Am I Being Unreasonable' without expecting to possibly get answers you don't want.

OP, just to say, I would not be too keen on it either, as it's on the verge of going off, and I am very fussy about freshness of food.

And no, I don't kill my own chickens and eat them the same day. I know you can keep meat, if cooled, for days (or weeks). But personally I like to eat it before it gets a whiff or sheen. personally I would not eat ham, cold meats, food I cooked after more than 3 days.

I don't eat ready meals as they gross me out. Or sandwiches that were made 4 days earlier (Starbucks, costco etc.)

I don't like to push the limit when it comes to food in terms of freshness. But then, I used to be more casual, and have had serious food poisoning a few times (mostly from restaurant food) and even been in hospital for it, so I guess like you it's once bitten....etc.!

so maybe I am even worse than you

Actually you can get salmonella from beef, cross-contamination et al. Shall we assume that adding to her already scuzzy habits she dunked dodge chicken filers in it and heated it under the midday sun?

Look, if you cook meat, you can then eat it several days later (think cold cooked chicken drumsticks, normally if you buy them in tescos they have the best part of a week before the 'use by date') so it would be ok (but not very tasty) to eat the stew cold, assuming it had been refridgerated in between. Warming it up will improve the taste, but make no difference to whether or not you'll get food poisioning.

You will be fine. Unless you get yourself in a state and make yourself feel sick from worry.

It's ok to be a worrier if you've been ill before from lack of food hygine in the past, but this isn't something you need to worry about.

Yes, YABU to be fuming, and YABU to be anticipating a bout of food poisoning.

I have quite often politely said "that's not quite hot enough, do you mind if I zap it a bit longer?" and got a perfectly reasonable reaction

there is absolutely nothing wrong with that

unless you simply want us all to joining in with a hatefest of your MIL, of course

So you carried on eating luke warm stew OP? Er why?

my MIL sticks the old soup in with the new

some of it must be years old by now

and she makes sausage casserole without browning them first, they always look like bloated fingers bobbing around

But you wouldn't need to 'zap' it for longer you could have eaten it cold...

Yet another thread that makes me dread the day I become a MIL.

micro iirc you can eat it hot or cold but luke warm is not good.

Slightly off topic but what really gets me is people who defrost frozen prawns by pouring warm water over them...now that can cause food poisoning but many people do it. Or people who leave their raw meats/fish on the middle/top shelf of the fridge!

alpine
Troisgarcons, I was taking the piss, perhaps I should've spelled it out further.

Sorry, I rather hoped you lived somewhere exotic! And were going to regal us with tales of catching your own dinner!

Valiumred

true

I have two extremes in my family, my Mother who throws out any food as soon as it reaches it sell by date (sell by Mother, there's the clue!) without just using it in some dish for the freezer or whatever.
And my MIL who is queen of the leftovers and canny use of food coming up to past it's best.
Neither have killed me yet. I normally just sniff something and hope for the best.
Have you very young DC Op? Is that why you're worried? I wouldn't be, am sure will be fine.

OK. I accept I ABU about how long you can keep meat. Its actually good to see how maby people say this as its putting my mind at rest. I don't accept I am being rude or precious though as I was so anxious not to be rude or precious that I caused more worry for myself.

I am particularly enjoying the way "MiL announced" that the stew was made on Thursday. She announced it - like the big reveal. Mwah ha ha ha! I made it on THURSDAY suckers!