To ask how long you'd leave chicken leftovers

[Mummaaaaaah]

And still eat?

Frozen - up to 2 weeks
Refrigerated - 2 days
Not refrigerated - 4 hours

2 days in the frudge

Wtf is a frudge??? Sorry.

3 days fridge here

A day in the fridge. I don't freeze chicken leftovers as there's never any leftover. I never understand the Mumsnet super chicken things

So the 4 days refrigerated I've forgotten to take to lunch two days in row and had for supper tonight and am now a little worried, no?

You'll be fine OP.

3 or 4 days. As long as the don't smell remotely funny. We have the dogs bollovks of fridges though.

Only 2 weeks in the freezer? Really? Crikey I've stuff in there for months years!!

If the original chicken was chilled quickly then put into the fridge and kept there, I'm sure you'll be ok. You can buy cooked chicken bits with way more than 4 days shelf life in a supermarket. Ok, they may be packed under nitrogen, but I'm fairly sure that isn't the case for all of them.

Cooked chicken can be in my freezer for in excess of 12 months and I'm still alive

https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/storagetimes.html

Thanks wine. It's about what I think (DH would leave chicken for a week and eat from the fridge) but I thought maybe I was a bit relaxed.

Interesting to note that Frozen foods remain safe indefinitely.

They stay safe indefinitely if they were safe to begin with, so if you freeze them when they start to smell bad then don't eat it.
www.nhs.uk/Livewell/homehygiene/Pages/how-to-store-food-and-leftovers-safely.aspx

Frozen- forever
Refrigerated- a week
Non refrigerated - I'd hate to admit the truth so I'll say 6hours -more like two days if it's not hot in the kitchen-

janethegirl So what if they're packed with nitrogen? So are salad bags which may or may not have listeria.

Just tonight I made chicken leek mushroom and tarragon pie with leftovers of a chicken I poached on Friday afternoon. It was in Tupperware since then and smelled absolutely fine. Tasted good too

Lady sounds lush!

roses packing things under nitrogengives items a longer shelf life. However if the product hasn't been prepared/ cooked/ washed properly, the nitrogen will not stop them carrying bugs. Nitrogen stops the oxidative degeneration of the product, which prolongs the shelf life