AIBU - MIL feeding DS (11mo) out of date food

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We are staying with MIL and FIL. MIL made the kids (3 and 11mo) cheese on toast for tea. I noticed the cheese was 1 month out of date and decided to take it off DS (11mo) as I didn't want him to get ill - he had a stay in hospital 2 weeks ago so I'm a bit protective of him atm. Was happy to let 3yo eat it, made DS marmite on toast instead. MIL seems offended now.

Was that unreasonable? I am quite careful about food hygiene having 2 young children, and in my opinion they are generally too relaxed about it - food left out all day when it should be in the fridge, that kind of thing.

Perhaps a bit unreasonable, especially given that, if the cheese had been dangerous, you'd definitely know by now.

Still, in sure a chat will suffice to make it up, assuming you didn't go mad and rant at MIL for attempting to murder your children or anything like that.

I think you were being a bit unreasonable and precious too.

My mum offered my twins some yogurt which I knew had been out of a fridge in the boot of a car for 24 hours during the Summer. The children were around 6 months. I said no. 30 minutes later I enter the room to find my husband feeding it to them. He hadn't realised the story and my mum had offered again with me out of the room. Furious doesn't go anywhere near there but I did, somehow, manage not to completely loose my rag.

Sorry, should have said no, you weren't BU. It's your call anyway and of course you wanted to protect a recently hospitalised child.

Depends on the cheese. Tbh you can usually see. Big no no with the soft cheeses but with the hard cheese like cheddar you can see. Yanbu re out of date food if milk, meat etc. however if not right for the 11 month its not right for the 3 year old or for that matter their dgm. Was the cheese frozen as my dp do that to cheddar if they going to use it to cook with therefore the use by date is meaningless.

Supermoon. Two weeks of my life was ruined by yogurt that was from a bed and breakfast in canada. I will now only eat yogurt if stored in a fridge, never ice. You dont know how long its been out and how many times. Yanbu re your dh there!

Given that it was cheddar cheese, you're being completely unreasonable. If there's a problem, you'll see mould. No mould, no problem. The 'date' is more or less meaningless in this instance.