To eat a yogurt that is a month out of date?

[SweetMaryHell]

It’s never been opened - natural yogurt, smells ok - month out of date. AIBU to eat the bastard?

Yes I would and I have done.

We must not blindly throw away good food because it has passed an arbitary date that has been set very conservatively to account for people who's fridges aren't at the correct temperature and to encourage people to throw it away and buy more.

I have to say we turned our fridge up (or is it down- made it colder! 😊) and our veg and fruit keep much much longer! Strawberries and blueberries wouldn’t last more than a few days, they’ll last at least until the next weekly shop now, sometimes linger.

Maybe that’s bad on the environment and I’ve just massively missed the point good for food waste but bad for energy consumption (can’t win )

DH did this yesterday - found a yoghurt in the fridge 6 weeks out of date. It was fine! As for why it was still there, I refuse to throw anything out until it's mouldy/watery/smelly. Not many things get chucked out TBH.

I still have some honey my granny gave me from her Women's Guild 5 years ago. It's absolutely fine.

@brokenbiscuitsx

We must not blindly throw away good food because it has passed an arbitary date that has been set very conservatively to account for people who's fridges aren't at the correct temperature and to encourage people to throw it away and buy more.

I have to say we turned our fridge up (or is it down- made it colder! 😊) and our veg and fruit keep much much longer! Strawberries and blueberries wouldn’t last more than a few days, they’ll last at least until the next weekly shop now, sometimes linger.

Reminding us that we are all different. I have no problem eating food way past the date, subject to the evidence of my eyes and nose.

Strawberries (and tomatoes) which have been refrigerated, on the other hand, IMO are absolutely tasteless. If you don't understand what I mean, try eating a strawberry which has not been refrigerated. Just because turning down the 'fridge temperature means they last a week before growing blue mould doesn't mean they will provide anything like the experience of eating a real, ripe strawberry.

Honey over 2000 years old has been recovered from pyramids in Egypt, perfectly good and safe to eat.

Strawberries (and tomatoes) which have been refrigerated, on the other hand, IMO are absolutely tasteless. If you don't understand what I mean, try eating a strawberry which has not been refrigerated. Just because turning down the 'fridge temperature means they last a week before growing blue mould doesn't mean they will provide anything like the experience of eating a real, ripe strawberry.

I have tried a room temp strawberry and much prefer them icy cold. I don’t think either of us is wrong, we just have different tastes.

Same as I prefer my tomatoes room temp (and my chocolate, much to DP’s disgust )

Open sniff look.

IME yoghurt is fine for months and months.

[quote CharlieFarl1e]@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g I am indeed fastidious! But then I'm the type who cleans and disinfects their fridge every week so the chances of months old food in there is nil

I'm not being dramatic btw as another poster has commented. I'm merely giving my point of view and that's that I think it's pretty revolting to have old out of date food in a fridge. I'm clearly a bit of an outlier on the thread [/quote]
i'm with you Charlie.
let's hear it for the outliers.
my mother and father would have been horrified by some of the practices on here, esp if given to others.
and i follow them.

@LennyMurdoch - your comment, of all the ones on this thread, is the one that baffles me most.

[quote PupInAPram]@LennyMurdoch - your comment, of all the ones on this thread, is the one that baffles me most.[/quote]

I could say the same?

@mydogisthebest I'm not perfect and didn't say I was. Just highlighting the fact that, for me, having food in your fridge that's a month past it's use by is pretty yuck. That's just my opinion and if you like to eat out of date stuff then by all means crack on

You do this stuff so I don't have to

I wouldn't 🤮

@alexdgr8 kindred spirits unite!!