To eat fish a day pasts its use by date?

[quorncookingmum]

Ok not an exciting AIBU but if anyone has a view please speak up?

Don't want to give the family food poisoning but it was qiute expensive (for us) and don't want to waste it unless absolutely necessary. Mis-read the use by when i bought it..... Its in a vacuum pack thingy if that makes any difference......

Open and have a sniff! if it looks a bit slimey and a bit stinky, don't do it!

agree with hahhah. If it's off you will smell it

Argh! Use your senses! If it smells off then don't use it!

My sister does this and it drives me INSANE!

Food doesn't know that a certain date has been reached and then decide to go off!

Sorry that was a bit harsh, but it's a pet peeve of mine!

If it smells ok when you open it, I'm sure it'll be fine. Fish isn't bad for food-poisoning, not like meat or shellfish which are more likely to set you off.

Thanks for the replies!

I feel ridiculous for asking tbh but I have been a vege for 28 years and although i can safely/happily cook meat and fish I am not confident with it if you know what i mean.

Its smoked fish so might be a bit harder to know if its off???

Maybe I will give DP an extra big portion and buy some fresh for the kids 9he has a cast iron stomach !

It's smoked, it's vacuum packed, if it smells OK it will be perfectly fine. "Use By" does not mean "Poisonous After".

yy if it's smoked it will be fine.

Och smoked is fine. That's how things were preserved in ye olden times, it'll be fine [nods wisely and gets out her pipe]

Try on OH first. Or next door's cat (no not really! I love cats, I have had cats and not poisoned any of them)