To panic over dd eating this

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Posting for traffic really.

DH gave DD some mini scotch eggs this morning, I'd gone into the kitchen to see the wrapper on top of bin, marked USE BY 23 Sept 2024.

DH insists that 8 hour doesn't make much of a difference but because it's meat and egg, I'm in a huge panic over it, he thinks she ate around 2-4 before I noticed, they was ASDA mini savoury eggs.

Op do you suffer from anxiety? In the nicest possible way, your relation is very extreme for something this minor. I hope your dd isn't picking up on it.

That was only yesterday. What's the panic?

Op, your reaction is extreme, and over the top. Common sense needs to prevail here; it is 8 hours, not 2 weeks. Use by dates are a rough guide, you can have things go off that are still in date, and vice versa. The good old fashioned method of smell, and appearance is the best way. This level of anxiety is not a nice way to live, kindly please seek some help if you haven't already.

Yep.

I've always assumed use by dates had at least a day's wiggle room on them so the manufacturers don't get sued, so it's reassuring to hear this.

Child eats bleach, rat poison - panic for one second - then pull yourself together and get them to hospital pdq. It is an emergency.

Child eats food that is just out of date - why panic? What will it achieve??

Chances are it will be fine so you have nothing to worry about let alone ‘panic’ about.

If by any chance the food is ‘off’ what can you do? Rush them to hospital / demand their stomach is pumped? Force your fingers down their throat and make them sick? No no no no no no !!!!! What you do is…… absolutely nothing… except wait it out and see what end it appears from ? (Vomit or the runs likely outcome if spoilt food).

Really need to relax a bit and apply a little common sense - this is not an emergency situation. It is a total non event.

I've never heard of anyone eating sausage and egg for breakfast either.

Well of course they do, but on MN you only have eggs produced from your own collection of hens (or the farmer next door if that’s not possible). Meat from the local high end butcher who slaughters the pig in front of you. The pig of course has been raised on a 3 course organic meal, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Any carbs as a side must be sources by foraging fields personally approved of King Edward’s decedents.

Scotch eggs are the foods of deviants and proles.

😂 how could one possibly have sausage and egg for breakfast? Cooked breakfasts with either bacon/sausage, eggs, beans etc are the food of the devil, let alone a scotch egg. Only on MN.

OP, you've taken a bit of a pasting from a few people and responded with humour, well done!

This post though is, I think, really helpful. I had a conversation along these lines with a farmer once. His point was that food starts to deteriorate basically as soon as it's picked/ butchered whatever. We can massively slow down that deterioration with appropriate storage/pickling/preservatives etc. But this can be erratic - the milk that is left out of the fridge by irritating teenagers for example! which then impacts the life of the product. There are loads of factors - time spent travelling, temperature of your fridge vs my fridge, teenagers!, room temperature etc.

So assuming you've had thos scotch eggs in the fridge, they were purchased from a amajor supermarket, they absolutely would be epected to have a longer shelf life than if, for example, they were homemade in less than ideal temperature conditions, had been stored incorrectly etc.

I frequently buy this kind of thing on cheap to eat the next day- very normal in this household!