Is this ok to eat?

[lordofthepies22]

Bought one of those chilled ready meals earlier. A bolognaise bake type of thing with meat, pasta and cheese sauce. Forgot about it and left it in the boot of the car. It was probably out of the fridge for about 2.5 hours. Will it still be ok to eat? Thank you

Yes of course it will be fine.

Fine, unless you live on the equator and it's cooked in the boot of your car?

Wouldn’t even enter into my head to be worried about this

Are you serious ? 2.5h outside in February? Of course it will be fine.

I've dragged shopping round town and then waited for the bus longer than that in the past.

It's 14 degrees here so not boiling but not exactly cool either. Thank you for the reassurance.

I thought you were going to say it's been in the car all night.... and I'd have still said it was ok to eat 🤣

It will be absolutely fine.

God, of course it’s fine. Fridge is barely colder than the weather at the moment

I shudder to think how much food waste happens in this country.

Kids eat things like ham sandwiches that have been in lunchboxes in warm classrooms for about 3 hours and no harm done. No need to worry about your ready meal. 🙂

I would chuck it and probably get rid of the car to be on the safe side.

Me too, you can't be too careful