Can you eat fat free Greek yoghurt 1 day past use by date?

[CityCommuter]

I'm cooking tacos for dinner this evening and I always serve Greek yoghurt rather than sour cream as it's just so fatty! Anyhow the yoghurt that's in the fridge has a use by date of yesterday 09/12... is that still ok or should I tell one of the teenagers to run to the shop and buy new?

I'm always amazed that people throw things out willynilly like this!

Unless it's meat, in which case you must be more careful, then use judgement!

DD once ate the branded kiddy yoghurt 2.5 weeks after its best before date and was fine. Just said it was a bit runny.

I eat fat free Grerk yoghurt weeks out of date as long as it has not been opened before.

I eat yoghurt a month past it's use by.

Do people not trust their nose and mouth anymore? Never failed me.

@goodwinter

It's fine! My personal line for yogurt is that if it's not going mouldy (usually starts around the lid), it's good to eat.

This

FFS is this a joke?

Of course you can

*And this is why we have food waste.
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I wouldn't eat one opened 10 days before

if you can't see any mould, it's fine.
Waitrose gave me two boxes of drinking yogurt a couple of weeks ago because it had reached the use by date - I drank the last one yesterday it was fine.

Oh it's been opened?
Yeah you need to do the smell/taste test then.

@CityCommuter

Yes it has been opened for about 10 days and then got forgotten about at the back of the fridge! There's no mould and it looks ok...

God no! Once something has been opened then microbes/ bacteria can enter and start to grow. Even if it was in date I wouldn’t eat it after it had been open that long.

I once saw Fiona Phillips say she would never eat out of date yogurt again after one made her incredibly ill. It hadn’t even been opened.

Yes, will be fine, as per pps if there’s no mould you’re golden, but watch out for orange/pinkish moulds as well as the obvious green/grey stuff. I’ve had many a yogurt way past date that were fine.

@GreenEyeOfTheLittleYellowGod

I ate an unopened one that was six months out of date and suffered no ill effects. I would go for it 😃

Ooh, that gives me hope for the cottage cheese in our fridge with a date in August on it. I keep meaning to try it but haven't got round to it.

One day, one week even should be fine. Yogurt lasts quite long. If it's not got mould and doesn't taste or smell bad it's fine. (If it's gone a bit sour that's fine too)

Yeah - a day is fine. I think DH has eaten plain yoghurt about a week over as long as it looked and smelt OK! It does seem to be one of those things that sometimes lasts way over the use by date.

Food best before dates are established by the very worst of conditions - if you store them somewhere sensible they should be fine long after the ‘safety’ best before date (obviously be careful with fresh meat/fish). Dairy products are usually fine for a while after - I get so annoyed by my DH chucking milk out a day after the best before, it’s not like it turns toxic! The sniff test is fine for these. Ive eaten month old yoghurt and lived to tell the tale!

Waste by Tristram Hunt is very good on the scandal of food waste, ‘best before’ dates and how so much of it is unnecessary…

It’ll be fine. Using it because sour cream is ‘so fatty’ is nuts though. You hardly use any and fat isn’t a problem.

Sorry, Tristram Stuart.

I regularly eat 3 weeks out of date yoghurt and am still here to tell the tale.

I would bin it for being fat free. Proper full fat Greek yogurt is heaven, and nutritionally better for you.

I think the general rule is 3-4 days max for things once they’re opened?

Made me think of this 😁