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AIBU?

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Not to want to eat Xmas day leftovers today?

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AmserGwin · 28/12/2014 18:47

Went to my mums for lunch, all very nice. She had some trifle and Black Forest Gateau left over from Xmas day, I politely declined. I would eat it 1 or maybe 2 days later but no more. Was I BU? How long do you keep and then eat leftovers? Or does it depend what it is?

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KnackeredMerrily · 28/12/2014 19:02

Yanbu op. Bleugh.

IvanOsokin · 28/12/2014 19:04

Wow, I've been eating Christmas leftovers all day. Including turkey. We all have. We're all fine and we do it every year. Cooked meat and fresh cream (on cakes or otherwise) kept in the fridge are fine for a few days at least.

Storytown · 28/12/2014 19:05

YABU. I've finished the pate today and I wouldn't have kept that any longer but creamy deserts fine for another couple of days yet.

If the cream had turned you'd know it as soon as you tasted it and sour off cream isn't actually going to make you ill.

NCIS · 28/12/2014 19:05

I would happily eat them until they smelt off. Send them round to me, I only have Christmas pud and clementine cake to have, would love some trifle.

Trills · 28/12/2014 19:05

I wouldn't assume it was OFF.

I would be just BORED of it by now though.

piggychops · 28/12/2014 19:07

72 hours for Turkey in this house and only reheat one time. Cakes and stuff no time limit as long as they aren't stale.

OddFodd · 28/12/2014 19:08

Exactly what storytime said - it's not going to kill you if it's gone off; it just doesn't taste very nice. With trifle with cream on the top, you only need to try a teeny bit before deciding it's past its best.

OnIlkleyMoorBahTwat · 28/12/2014 19:08

If the trifle hasn't gone watery it will have been fine. I happily keep most things for 3 days, but try to prioritise eating whatever goes off fastest and anything left that was freezable got frozen today.

I was disappointed that our trifle all got eaten on Christmas Day and when I can be arsed will probably make another one.

However, You do get fed up of things after 2 or 3 days but one huge advantage of the great Christmas Day cooking rest is that there should be no need to cook for 2 or 3 days afterwards, if you have done it right.

SantasBassoon · 28/12/2014 19:09

Nearly everything I bought for Christmas had a best before date of around New Years Eve, including the cream. If I'd made a trifle with the cream, it would still be fresh today for sure.

LittleprincessinGOLDrocks · 28/12/2014 19:09

I would decide based on look and smell.
If the cream on top looked and smelled ok I would have had some, if it looked iffy then no I wouldn't. It depends on how it was stored and kept on Christmas day and the days since, for example was it out for hours on the side for people to help themselves to more before going in the fridge etc. So really has to come down to how it looks at time of eating, and therefore it is hard to say without seeing it.

PurpleSwift · 28/12/2014 19:10

i have a two day rule althugh for desserts this goes out the window

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AmserGwin · 28/12/2014 19:15

I would decide based on look and smell
So would I usually, but thought it would be a bit rude to smell it first, or ask for some and them not eat it. Glad some people agree with me anyway, also my mum does tend to leave things 'out' more than I would

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SuperGlue · 28/12/2014 19:20

I am always shocked at the food wastage on some of these threads. I find it pretty sad in these times that there are people throwing perfectly good food without knowing if there is anything wrong with it or not. You would know from the first taste of the cream if it had turned.

We finished our trifle yesterday (though greed, not necessity) but we are still eating profiteroles and they are perfect. We had the last turkey sandwiches earlier from the crown and the last few shreds of meat will go to the dogs and cat.

We will eat ham for dinner.

I hate waste and there is no way I would throw out good, and very expensive, christmas food so quickly!

gamerchick · 28/12/2014 19:26

I don't eat cake and nobody else wanted it..The end.

It's the only thing that got thrown out.. I've got enough meat frozen for 20 portions.

Happy.

MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 28/12/2014 19:29

We still have some Turkey left. I am bored of it now but Dh is back at work tomorrow so we be having it in his pack up.

I can't abide food waste. Think I would've made a pie of it if he hadn't have been using it tomorrow.

arlagirl · 28/12/2014 19:31

Surely the answer is not buy so much food?

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AmserGwin · 28/12/2014 19:32

By the way it wasn't my waste, I would have eaten it by now! , I do try not to waste food too, and freeze everything that can be frozen rather than throw it

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Ujjayi · 28/12/2014 19:35

I have just served up Christmas leftovers: roast potatoes (reheated), roast beef, spiced red cabbage (both cold from the fridge) with veg cooked today. I am certain we shall not perish.

I agree with a PP who said that done correctly the christmas lunch could provide leftovers for the following few days. And extra meat can be sliced & frozen too (as long as it hasn't been reheated). I would take the same attitude to trifle etc.

We have far too much food waste & fussiness in this country.

Scholes34 · 28/12/2014 19:38

Would your mum really have minded if you'd asked if you could check that the cream was still okay? You can only really tell if something can't be eaten by smelling and tasting, not by a sell-by/use-by date.

My Christmas cake was made in September, and has butter in it, so not dairy-free, and tastes absolutely fab.

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AmserGwin · 28/12/2014 19:42

Possibly not scholes, but I didn't particulary fancy it anyway. Was interested to see if I was BU or not (I still don't know, quite a divided thread for a change). I would have no problem eating weeks old Xmas cake either, and Turkey wouldn't be an issue for me as I don't eat meat.

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Doyouthinktheysaurus · 28/12/2014 19:43

We're still eating our Christmas food! It will be leftovers again tomorrow and then I'll freeze the meat left.

Wouldn't bother me at all to eat cream from Christmas. I wouldn't eat it at my mums though because she has a habit of leaving food out for hours in warm rooms before getting around to refrigerating it. Then she'll do the same the next day......

CheeseBuster · 28/12/2014 19:46

YABU it would have been fine as long as stored in the fridge. Stuff gets eaten here until it looks or smells funny but nothing ever really lasts that long.

Nanny0gg · 28/12/2014 19:46

I wouldn't eat anything with fresh cream 3 days later.

But I thoroughly enjoyed my lunchtime turkey sandwich and I'm sorry it's all gone now.

HoHonutty · 28/12/2014 19:47

We are still waiting ours, I'm not one of those who takes notice of use by dates either though.

RoganJosh · 28/12/2014 20:03

I would say three days for things with cream in, so if they were made on christmas eve I'd have said no too.

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