to not want to eat veggie sausages with Best Before date of

[lulucappuccino]

10/05/16

DH thinks I'm being ridiculous. I think it's disgusting to eat something that out of date.

He stresses that it's "Best Before, not Use By".

They're fridge sausages, not freezer, if that's relevant.

YANBU

I would eat them. Best Before does not mean Poisonous After.

Cook them for him, you can rub his back later when he is vomiting. I would struggle with a day out of date.

If they'd been in a tin or frozen or otherwise preserved, then a few months past the BB date isn't much of a big deal, because they're made to last years.

Fresh products on the other hand, I wouldn't eat more than about a week past the BB date (aside from fresh fruit or veg where you can easily tell whether it has degraded) because it probably only had a shelf life of 2-3 weeks from the point of manufacture in the first place, so adding more than two months onto that is a LOT.

I'm generally ]quite happy to go about 25% of the overall shelf life over on the BB/use by date.

If he wanted to eat them then fine, but I'm shocked he served them to his DCs.

Were they soya, or tofu, or Quorn, or wheat based?
That makes a difference too.
But May is just bloody stupid. That exceeds even my standards.
And to give them to the children!

Not fridge. If it was freezer I would be ok.

Unless you taken them out of the freezer...no way....have you had food poisoning??? Im super cautious now. Its july this is 2 months ago.....

He's angry because he feels guilty. He probably wondered if he should give them to the children, decided it would probably be alright and now you've come home and made him doubt himself again now it's too late to go back. He's panicking that the children will get ill and it will all be his fault.

Or at least that would be my take on it. I used to deal with complaints and often those who felt guilty would take irrational anger to a whole new level, presumably because they didn't want to face up to what they had done.

So.... He is being unreasonable, but given he had already done it and it couldn't be undone by the time you told him, he was in a shitty situation, albeit of his own making.

Presumably you are also very angry, on the grounds you are frightened for the children. Try to stay calm. By tomorrow, hopefully you will be able to discuss it more rationally.

Actually, I see it happened yesterday. Do the children seem okay OP? Hope you have this all sorted by now.