WIBU to eat this food

[Ahardyfool]

We are quite short on money due to DP’s redundancy last year. I went to Aldi to buy some top up food for this week and had my teenage sons unpack the car. Discovered that we were missing a few items from the fridge today and went to find them rolling around at the back of our car. It’s been anything from -1 degrees to 10 degrees outside (10 degrees not achieved for long o might add). The items were bought around 5pm on Sunday. Would you eat them?

I normally pride myself on my food hygiene knowledge but as I recall, none of the courses covered “ham left on the back seat of the car”

The items are:
Butter (will eat, no issue)
Ham ()
Soft Cheese ()
Feta ()
Pâté (this I fear the most)

I would! Have done similar, too!

I’m sure it’s fine. 10 deg is hardly a hot summer’s day...

I'd ditch everything but the butter to be honest, and I'm pretty lax with my expiry dates.

I’m usually pretty adventurous when it comes to use by dates but think I would chuck them. If it’s been sunny the temp inside the car could have gone above 10C for a while and you wouldn’t know.

Of course! Mainly cause I couldn't afford to replace it.

I would be wary of the pate. Give the ham a good sniff. The rest will probably be fine.

I wouldn't eat the ham or the pate but the others I would if they looked and smelt fine

The Feta will be fine. It’s paxked in salt so that will preserve it.

Sniff test them. Especially the pate and ham. Might be ok if the car didnt get warm.

I'd eat any of them, so long as they smell all right.

I'd give it a sniff and decide after that!

Another vote for sniff test!

I would test it. If it tastes ok I'd eat it.

Absolutely - just sniff check.

The average domestic fridge is 5C anyway!

I’d eat all but the pate of it smelt ok

I probably wouldn't eat the paté, deffo the butter and the cheese. They'll be fine, is sniff test the ham

I thunk you'll be able to tell with the ham but saying that the butter and the ham are the only ones I'd even chance-sorry!!!

I'd ditch the pate and the ham. But I'm a bit OTT on things like this.

I wouldn't eat the pate, I'd do a sniff test on the ham, the rest will be fine.

Sniff test... pate and ham both smell rank when they are off so you will know immediately.

I’d smell them all before deciding.

Isn’t the point of pate that it is a form of preserving?

How much time was the temp about 4/5 degree?

I would chuck the pate and be a bit suspicious of the ham. The utter and cheese I would still use, it should be ok. My MIL didn't realise that cheese strings should be kept in the fridge (don't ask me how), she fed them to my kids for ages before I realised and informed her that they really are a fridge item. The kids suffered no ill effects from eating them.

All the cheeses I'd eat. Ham... would assess carefully, if looked/smelled OK. Pate - would almost definitely be binned.

I wouldn’t eat the meat but the rest wouldn’t worry me at all.

I'd eat the lot - fine in this weather

when you say back of the car, OP, do you mean back seat or boot? If boot, is it a proper boot or if a hatchback, is there a cover over it?

Unless the car had been parked with its rear facing S, & there was quite a bit of sun where you are yesterday & today, I'd probably eat the lot after a sniff test

Fridges are supposed to be kept at 5C I know, but I've no idea what mine is, & we eat things like yogurts that are weeks out of date