If a chicken has a use by date on it for today...

[LedodgyDickinson]

Can it be cooked today but ate by dp on sandwiches tommorrow?

I'm asking because we have a use by today chicken. I'M in the middle of painting the kitchen and dp has just kindly asked his sister and brother to come for dinner. I want to get an Indian as I need to do another coat plus the woodwork and cooking is not high on my agenda. Thus can I just stick chicken in oven and let dp eat it tommorrow so he doesn't go on about it going ot waste? Or will it kill him? I don't mind if it just makes him a bit sick but death would be a bit inconvenient right now..

It will be fine
As he has asked them for dinner can't he cook it?

Oh yes he'd cook but the thing is our kitchen is small and as i'm painting it is filled with a ladder, paint rollers, dust cloths etc.... as well as wet paint.

I would cancel guests, cook the chicken and then fridge it for tmw.

I don't mind them coming round the rest of the house is fine but would rather just order food in.

aren't you heavily pregnant?!!

Yes i'm 33 weeks.

so you're painting, up ladders etc , and cooking dinner for tonight!
What exactly is he doing?
Throw chicken out and insist on takeaway

No I'm painting. He would have cooked the dinner but there is no room with me painting so he was worried about wasting it so I posted to see if just sticking the chicken in the oven was an option and eating it tommorrow so we could get an indian and not faff about with food preparation iyswim. I'm painting and up a short ladder as I said the kitchen is small. I'm better at painting than dp and he did the bits I would have to stretch to reach this morning. He isn't lazy.

As for inviting his sister and brother for dinner on a whim , he just doesn't think!

Why not stick it in the freezer. You do know you shouldn't be painting and climbing ladders, don't you?

Cook the chicken and make a curry with it tomorrow. Then freeze the curry so you have a ready made meal for another night or for when LO first arrives!

As for inviting people over on a whim...grrr....

Men do not think.

I am due 2 days after Christmas and my DH suggested we might like to invite his DB and DNephew & GF round for Christmas day (as well as BIL and his GF who always come).

Be careful on that ladder!

The chicken will be fine. The shop would hardly put today's date on it if it were going to make you ill to cook it today, there'd be hundreds of people suing them every day if they did that.

Once you cook it it reverts to normal keeping time for a cooked chicken.

But get DH to cook it!

Brilliant thank you. I've just finished the second coat now so no more ladders! Just the woodwork to do now.

And mumsnetting at the same time.

Hah! men have a thing or two to learn about multi-tasking, don't they?