To use flour one month out of date

[Mammylamb]

Was looking to bake a cake tomorrow (having a rare day at home with Dh and DS). Just realised all the flour went out of date at the end of October.

I was thinking it would still be ok to use in a cake. Aibu?

What would even happen to flour? You could use it for years

I have used flour 2 years out of date before. just add a little baking powder

I would and have used flour much longer over date than that. No ill effects to report

It should be fine. Just give it a tap and make sure it doesn't start crawling!

Weevils are evil little buggers that can make a bag of perfect looking flour a heaving mass of insect life in just a few days. And not only will they be in your flour, but the pasta in the next cupboard, the rice, the split peas. You name it. plastic bags are no barrier.

Flour lived in the freezer in our desert house, after the first incidence. Pasta brought them in once too. (not envy!)

I found my month-out-of-date flour crawling with weevils. I did not use it.

PS. I binned the flour, but picked them out of the very expensive (because it was imported, not because it was anything special) pasta.

Crack on!
This reminds me, me and dd made a ww1 recipe cake a couple of weeks ago. Dh chucked it out after 3 days, dd was cracking at him, the cakes took ages to get to the soldiers and they rationed them out for weeks at a time so why the fuck did dh think he could overrule their food practices?!

it's a best before date not a use by date, use by dates are only used on perishables so will be in about 10 days time max ( ie meat fish dairy produce and things made from them)
best before dates mean after that it might not be as tasty but will probably be safe
ie spices tend to lose fragrance but perfectly safe as is coffee and tea
jam provided sealed properly will last a few years
sugar. flour pasta rice will all be fine if sealed
tinned goods if not rusty or dented should be ok for a decade
things like raisins will dry out

I used cornflour best before 2014 last week

Update: I used the flour to make a cake. A few hours later I was puking for Scotland and shitting brown water.

sorry, clicked the wrong button, YANBU to use the flour.

Crosspost - turns out I may have been right the first time.

The two may very well be unconnected.

Baked good are exceptionally low risk for food poisoning. Unless you made up the icing with prawns you'd had sitting on the side since September.

Hope you're feeling better.

Bugger hit the wrong vote. Deduct one of the YABU's

Very unlikely to be the flour especially as it baked at a high temp for a long time.

What else did you eat.

Did you eat any of the cake mix?

You can get e. Coli from raw, in date flour

In seriousness it’s probably the winter vomiting bug I had. It’s been doing the rounds

You can always do another cake to see if the same thing happens? For science, obviously.

I look carefully at flour before I use, having discovered weevils writhing around in a bag a few years ago

You can't miss them - the flour moves around......