to wonder why dh didn't bin them.

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Trivial I know but annoying. Dh asked me if it was ok to give dd out of date Jaffa cakes. I said no.
Came downstairs this am only to find jaffa cakes still in cupboard.
Can't understand why he didn't bin them.

They would be fine so no need to bin them.

He is a man so he wouldn't be able to find the bin anyway!

Oh God

Leave the bastard (but keep the Jaffa cakes)

IMO any man who puts Jaffa cakes in the cupboard (and not in his mouth) is a keeper.

If I lived with someone who I knew was more anal strict on best-before dates than I was than I would think it wise to ask before I fed something past its best-before date to our child.

It's not "is this OK?" it's more "are you going to feel worried if I do this perfectly fine thing, because if it worries you I will not do it even though it is fine".

Agree with businesstrills! It's not worth the hassle. If she then gets a co-incidental tummy ache, you'd never hear the end of it.
Same for other people's kids...I wouldn't chance it, because of the 0.1% chance that they'd get ill!

YABU to allow jaffa cakes to go out of date, when they are normally devoured on day of purchase here.

I hate jaffa cakes but I'd eat any other biscuits that were 2 months out of date. Is there something special about jaffa cakes which makes them more dangerous than normal biscuits?

If not, YABU.

My gran has some strawberry syrup she gets out every Pancake Day which has a price in 'ds' on the sticker

I've never risked it but I'm sure DS will go straight for it once he's old enough...

Jaffa cakes are the work of the devil...

Jaffa Cakes are vile - but seriously, who the hell checks use before dates on things like cakes & biscuits??

Op and hip - have a dh exactly like this! He won't bin anything. It can be right next to the bin but not in I. Why??? Why do they do this?

In the lounge, we have now developed an entire "bin corner". It used to be a bin in a corner but DH just lobs rubbish in the general direction, so now it is just a corner full of rubbish by the time I think to empty the bin

Must be a man thing!

DSis is a notorious biscuit hooverer.

During her break at work one day she ate several biscuits but left the last one in the pack - unheard of. Her colleague considered this such a noteworthy event that he framed the biscuit and hung it on the wall with the caption 'The Biscuit Roxette Declined'.

There it remained for a couple of weeks until! DSis got into work early, made a cuppa and went in search of the biscuits - none to be found. While she was drinking her tea, the framed biscuit hung there, tempting her. At last she could stand it no longer - yes, she extracted it from its frame and scoffed it!

Even I who had had a lifetime of her was shocked. "Was it not horrible and soggy?" I asked. "Well, yes", she replied, as if this had nothing to do with it.

I dont think I can remember when I last looked at a sell by/ use by date....

we have a competition going whenever all the siblings are at home - who can find the most out of date stuff in DM's cupboards.

Stuff can literally be YEARS out of date, and unopened. I had a packet of that dried couscous stuff that was from 2004. It was fine (as fine as dried dodgily flavoured couscous can be anyway)....