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Original poster

To eat an M&S ready meal curry box that's 10 days out of date?

76 replies

52andblue · 15/05/2021 19:13

I thought I'd put it in the freezer.
It's lurking at the back of the fridge.
I'm hungry.
I'm 8miles from the nearest shop (no deliveroo etc around here)

It's a bad idea, yes?
(it's chicken curry, potato and spinach curry, rice, all sep pots)

OP posts:
JesusInTheCabbageVan · 16/05/2021 12:24

@CorvusPurpureus oh dear lord Envy😱

I have heard that alcohol in the stomach can help kill off harmful bacteria. Always sounded like an urban myth to me, but maybe not!

Original poster
52andblue · 16/05/2021 14:42

Update:
By pure co incidence a neighbour dropped off six eggs from her hens
So I ate a nice fresh omelette.
Feeling tired but otherwise not too bad.
May venture to village shop for salad and cheese and have the other 3 eggs as a cheese omelette tonight with some salad. Then brave the supermarket in the car tomorrow.

(re the 'M&S' bit that caused amusement - it prob WAS because it was M&S that I'd considered eating it, not because their chicken has magical properties but because I can't normally afford their stuff so this was yellow stickered to start with. I was therefore extra annoyed with myself for being so ruddy wasteful)

OP posts:
LadyWhistledownsQuill · 16/05/2021 15:09

I'm pretty lax, but I wouldn't be that lax with chicken.

IEat · 16/05/2021 15:49

If you want to lose a lot of weight very quickly, be in hospital on a drip go for it

tiredanddangerous · 16/05/2021 16:14

It would have been a good way to lose a few pounds I suppose but I'm glad you didn't eat it!

AlCalavicci · 16/05/2021 16:20

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

This isn't just the galloping shits. It's the M&S galloping shits. Grin
This made me laugh !

I am glad you decided to bin it , I hope you have managed to find something better to eat .

lolacola77 · 16/05/2021 16:20

Unless you want to shit yourself for days I'd bin it!

LadyPenelope68 · 16/05/2021 16:21

Chicken 10 days past use by date? Absolutely no way.

MuddySocks · 16/05/2021 16:36

You are joking right ???

nixonten · 16/05/2021 17:02

I would not have eaten the chicken but I would have cooked the rest well.
In a saucepan with some extra water stirred well. NOT micro-wave.
You could add a hard boiled egg.
This is a serious suggestion. not trying to be funny.

Bipitybopityboop · 16/05/2021 17:22

Is your freezer empty?

Do you not having any freezer food for lazy days?

What about pasta?

Cooked pasta tossed in butter is a very simple, lazy yet delicious meal or snack 😋 depends how much you pack away 😉

SmidgenofaPigeon · 16/05/2021 17:43

But if it was at the back of the fridge due to ‘fridge rotation’ as you stated, you must have had other food in there, or it would have been blindingly obvious sat in your fridge. But you’d have starved save for a kindly neighbour coming by with some fresh eggs?

Doesn’t make sense.

katy1213 · 16/05/2021 18:02

Is the plastic film blown? (I'd probably sniff it and eat it anyway.)

lastqueenofscotland · 16/05/2021 18:06

I am absolutely minging and I would not eat that

PicsInRed · 16/05/2021 18:06

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

This isn't just the galloping shits. It's the M&S galloping shits. Grin
Grin
Chalcroft · 16/05/2021 18:08

No - it is chicken. Definitely not

Serin · 16/05/2021 18:24

I hope you are feeling better OP.
Just by the by, the Co-op do same day delivery in lots of areas and were great when we had Covid.

dottiedodah · 16/05/2021 18:25

10 days is way off! No way should you eat this ,you risk Salmonella food poisioning which is very dangerous .Throw the lot away and have some Cheese On Toast instead,

SchrodingersImmigrant · 16/05/2021 18:32

@dottiedodah

10 days is way off! No way should you eat this ,you risk Salmonella food poisioning which is very dangerous .Throw the lot away and have some Cheese On Toast instead,
It's actually 11 days now
Original poster
52andblue · 17/05/2021 11:16

@SmidgenofaPigeon

But if it was at the back of the fridge due to ‘fridge rotation’ as you stated, you must have had other food in there, or it would have been blindingly obvious sat in your fridge. But you’d have starved save for a kindly neighbour coming by with some fresh eggs?

Doesn’t make sense.

I'd thought I'd put it in the freezer (almost empty as due to move). In fact, I'd bunged it in a deep salad drawer that I don't normally use. Eaten the stuff on easy view in preceding week. Not much in cupboards as run down to to imminent move. Neighbour brought eggs which saved me driving 2miles to only village shop (Co op, no delivery service) only option if really hungry. I went to the big supermarket today. Fridge now better stocked :)
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maddiemookins16mum · 17/05/2021 19:42

2 days yes, 10 days no way. That said I’m about to open a tub of cream that says use by 14th May.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 17/05/2021 19:44

@maddiemookins16mum

2 days yes, 10 days no way. That said I’m about to open a tub of cream that says use by 14th May.
Well, it's 12 days now😂
mainsfed · 17/05/2021 20:04

Meh, I'd have given it the sniff and taste test, it's never failed me yet.The preservatives and spices would probably have prevented it going off, as long as it was still sealed.

Toilenstripes · 17/05/2021 20:08

I’m just recovering from food poisoning, raw chicken. My god. I’ve never been so ill.

FussyLittleFucker · 17/05/2021 20:08

2 or 3 at a push but definitely not 10, the rice would get you even if the chicken didn't!
Glad you've seen sense Grin