is it too late to still be eating the turkey and ham

[EleanorReally]

turkey cooked 25th naturally.
ham cooked 23rd and roasted 24th

If I cooked something on the 25th then the 27th is the last day I would eat it before putting in the freezer. It would have been in the fridge though.

But that said- I am Australian and Christmas dinner is in the summer. (Although I am in the UK now).

I have very bad memories of my grandmother's house at Christmas. She had a fridge but never saw the need of it so just left everything out on the counter - for days and days. The time my father saw her cutting the green bits off the cooked pork was the last time we ever ate there. Apparently we were just fussy snobs and the fact that several of my cousins came down with rotten food poisoning had nothing to do with it.

I'm using up the end bit of the ham (cooked 24th) in a pasta carbonara today. DH is yearning for a curry, so the last of the turkey will go in that tomorrow.

No. I cooked the turkey mid afernoon 25th. Was making turkey soup today and qwuality control checked some pieces of meat. They tasted so good, and still very fresh.

Ham cooked on 26th and was smoked anyway so I will keep serving that for as log as it looks and smells okay.

I used to work with someone who bought a large joint of meat every week. Her menu was the same each week, roast Sunday, cold with potatoes Monday, pie Tuesday, curry Wednesday, stew Thursday, soup Friday. She was very frugal, never ill.

My gran was the same. We had a family event once ,catered externally, and the whole party went down with food poisoning with the exception of my gran who must have had a cast iron stomach.

Nope! I eat cooked meat upto a week after cooking.

Mine do this too and they live in a hot climate. Rice and meat dishes, stews sitting about on the table covered in a cloth where the temp doesn’t dip below about 25c. No idea how but still alive and never had an incident of food poisoning

I froze any turkey left after Boxing day but I'm still eating up smoked gammon that has been refrigerated since Xmas Eve. We've had a sandwich for lunch today then I've just chucked up and frozen for a pie after NY. I'm fed up of it tbh. Salmon tomorrow.

We had turkey and ham sandwiches for lunch today with the last of the decent sliced meat and it still tasted delicious. The rest has now gone in the freezer to make a pie for NYD. I didn't fancy leaving it a full week, but it probably would have been fine.
We've done well with our turkey this year - it did Christmas and Boxing Day for 7 adults, at least 2 lunches worth of sandwiches for 4 and there's a decent sized pie's worth left.

I feel a bit wary eating mine on 26th tbh 🤣

Most of our leftover turkey ended up in the cat / dog so no question of it still hanging around, but personally I'd have said 3-4 days if it still looks and smells OK and if properly packaged and stored.

We don't do a Xmas ham as only DH likes it. I have horrors of the MIL keeping them lurking in the fridge (which was itself barely below room temperature) for the best part of 2 weeks. The layer of fat is the first thing that is going to go bad despite the meat being cured.

Dh made a curry with the last of the turkey yesterday to have tonight

My husband has been simmering turkey stock all day.