To be annoyed with MIL's almost out of date chicken?

[MrCollinsandhisboiledpotatoes]

Last night, about 4pm, MIL turns up while I was out with a pack of chicken breasts with the use by date of yesterday, puts them in our fridge and says they have to be eaten today (yesterday) as it's the last day. DH tells me when I get home that there's chicken in the fridge that must be eaten tonight.
I'm like, OK.... But I have stuff I had planned for dinner tonight and all week in fact, and I've got my own use-by dates on the stuff I bought and the week's dinners planned accordingly and now you're going to throw that all out of whack because we have to eat MIL's chicken instead, because of her poor planning and/or reluctance to throw out her own shit, you acting like her food waste bin?
But DH thinks we should be grateful?
Who's side are you on?

Doesn't seem like a needing to take sides issue. Awaiting backstory of why your MIL is just awful and constantly ruins your life.

It's a bit annoying yes, no more than that. There must be something else you can whack in the freezer and use this chicken in place of this week.

Personally I'd cook MIL's chicken, freeze it and plan a meal around it for next week.

Yes, I'd find this a bit annoying especially if it happens regularly. But at the same time - free chicken!

If DH is grateful it sounds as if he thinks she is saving you money by replacing a meal that you'd have needed to buy otherwise - perhaps he needs to gain a deeper understanding of how the system actually works and how she is actually not doing that, plus also reducing your ability to choose what meal suits your family best.

Just stick them in the freezer.

Can you not just freeze the chicken?

Literally a drama out of nothing. Stick them in the freezer - either cooked or uncooked. They are still in date.

You can't stick things in the freezer on the last day, can you? I thought yours supposed to do that the day you buy them?
Anyway, got no room in the freezer

Freeze it, cook it, chuck it. It really doesn’t matter and it certainly doesn’t warrant an AIBU.

do you not have a freezer?
do you not have room in your freezer?
she does seem to be over stepping and i would be annoyed

Just bin it and move on.

I freeze things on the last day, and it's never been an issue

and yes you can freeze things on the best before or use by date.

You can definitely freeze it

Of course you can. Just remember that when you take them out, you need to use them immediately.

Cook the chicken, stick it in the freezer, make casserole with it next week.

Since when has 4 pm been night?

I'm betting you don't like your MIL right? She has tried to do something nice to save you money.

Eat them, freeze them, cook them to use as snacks/sandwich filling through the week or throw them in the bin.

op has no room in the freezer

Cook it, then you get an extra few days to use it. You could just slice it for sandwiches for lunches.

I couldn't get upset about this, it's not a major issue

I couldn't get worked up about this personally.

No she didn't, she just wanted somewhere to dump her chicken.

I’d find it a bit annoying. It’s not like it’s a particularly nice gesture, a load of chicken breasts which you suddenly have to cook just because of someone else’s poor planning.

You don’t have room in the freezer for two chicken breasts?

Mountain. Molehill.

Not getting the drama cook it slice it for sandwiches cook a meal with it it will last a couple of days or just bin it

really isn’t worth getting wound up about