To be feeling sick about eating chicken on its use by date

[purpleangel17]

Before I have even eaten any? 😂

It is use by today and smelt fine, a bit more watery but nothing else so logically I will be fine.

But my imagination is still running away with me!

It's use by today??

Why would that be a problem?

Absolutely no problem

I'm paranoid about use by dates. Eat it on the day? I absolutely would!! And do.

Its fine. Sell by is advisory - better to use your eyes and sense of smell.

We've eaten chicken a couple of days past use by and lived to tell the tale.

You'll be fine. What are you cooking?

Why eat chicken at all if you feel so frightened of it?

I'm like that hate using things on the use by date particularly chicken.

Ignore the date.
Its bollocks to make you throw stuff out (see lots of investigations / exposes on the topic)

Does it look OK
Does it smell OK
Cook it through
Does it taste OK
Then its OK

I'm overly twitchy about chicken as well OP. So you're not alone.

I unwrapped a raw chicken which was well within it's dates and had been in the fridge the whole time. It smelt odd to me. Eldest DC snuffed it. Said cook it, it'll be fine. I prepared it for roasting and at the last minute ''chickened out'' (ha ha) and chucked it away. I was feeling queasy just thinking about it! I couldn't get past the slight smell i'd smelt.

Laiste your DC "snuffed it"! Blimey!!

I cooked Spanish chicken... I have always been funny about chicken but I refuse to pass my paranoia onto my kids hence why I cook it once a week or so!

Actual LOL

sniffed

If its stressing you already...don't eat it? You will only be even more paranoid later

YABU, it's use by today so in date. Do you really think the supermarket/producers would risk putting on a date whereby it might not be safe for consumption? Of course not, they need to cover their backs, hence I generally assume a few days past use by will also be fine if you cook it thoroughly.

Ha ha I am with Talkin. If it looks ok and smells ok it will be? Never had food poisoning and I eat thing s over the date all he time.

I eat meat past it’s use by date all the time. Never had food poisoning.

The smell of chicken on turn is unmistakable!

On the turn!

Ignore the labels and engage your senses and brain.

Good grief. I buy reduced meals with chicken in and have them a day or three two after...

Yup, YABU.
It isn't even past the date.
You can tell if chicken has gone off.....it pongs.

I thought you couldn't tell if chicken was off by smell? I know gone off chicken smells but it can not smell and still give you food poisoning as food poisoning bacteria doesn't cause it to smell?
In this case it is in date so I am sure it will be fine but to all the other posters eating it after the use by date surely thats a bit risky? Chicken use by dates are about 5 days so thats a good week that chicken has been sat in your fridge

The worst food poisoning I ever had from food I'd cooked was a fish which was well in date (was a good few days in front the day I used/cooked it).

The chicken with todays use by date will be fine. Enjoy OP.

Good grief, its not going to turn poisonous at the stroke of midnight.

Ha, I love these sorts of threads as it always highlights the people who would struggle most in a zombie apocalypse. Not sure what would freak them out the most, the zombies or the germs!

OP, why on earth are you worrying about something that's IN DATE, especially considering there's a bit of leeway in the dates anyway?! I've often eaten out of date food (including chicken that a few days over) and never had ill effects.

How anyone can eat mass produced chicken these days is beyond me to be honest
Factory farmed , pumped full of chemicals and brutally killed by miserable minimum wage workers

If yours is a hand reared organic £22 beauty I take it back