To throw away chicken three days after its Use By date?

[Rollingdownland]

I have some 'chicken flatties' (ie breasts beaten thin) from M&S in a BBQ glaze. Planned to eat them tonight, just saw they are Use By September 3. Three days ago.

I can only smell the BBQ sauce when I sniff them. I hate wasting food but don't really want to make my family ill.

Would I BU if I chucked them away?

Throw them!! 3 day out of day chicken is reeeeeally pushing it

Throw!! Not worth the risk

Chicken and fish I wouldn’t risk it with. Especially if they’re covered in a sauce, it could mask any nasty whiffs.

I'd cook and eat them.

If it didn't have a sauce on it and smelt ok I would cook and eat but the sauce will.mask the off smell so I wouldn't risk it and I'm pretty laid back with dates

You need to sniff them before throwing them out.
At least leave them out for the foxes otherwise animals have died in vain.

I find I can normally give M&S chicken 4 days after it's use by. I'd eat it, I'd cook it really well first though.

Nothing would persuade me to eat chicken that was past it's use by date.

If it was me in no way would I eat them
Is food poisoning worth the cost of the pack of chicken ?

You'd be unreasonable not to bin them

DO NOT DO THIS

I'd eat it. Off chicken stinks.

Chuck them 🤢

Chuck it away.

The sniff test is bollocks anyway.

Pathogenic bacteria doesn't smell, spoilage bacteria does.

I'm very laid back about use by dates, but NOT involving chicken.

I'd bin 100%

Not all off chicken stinks

This!! Dear god no! Just bin it, not worth the risk 🤢

But there's no more likelihood that pathogenic bacteria is in old chicken than fresh chicken.

M&S chicken = unlikely to have pathogens. Being past sell by date makes no difference.

Off chicken looks, smells and feels bad.

I can’t even eat chicken on the day it goes out of date… worries me and I can’t enjoy it so no way on earth would I do this!

I would cook them and eat them.

Supermarket meat has a massively long use by date because they err on the side of caution. They have to allow for people who go to the shop and carry the stuff home on a hot bus for half an hour.

5 days I would absolutely say outside the tolerance zone. 3 days would be my limit. I've never been ill by following this but it's 15 minutes from shop to fridge for me.

There are other factors to be taken into consideration

I once got food poisoning from chicken and it was horrendous. No way would I risk it for the sake of a fiver.

I'm fairly relaxed about use by but chicken 2 days after would be my limit I think, especially in a sauce

Chuck them out

They'll be fine.