Oh that's just great - Nanny has fed dd out of date fishcake....

[CountessDracula]

which fortunately she rejected (though she may have eaten one bit) and dh and the dog hoovered up the rest

Do you think I am in line for an evening of puking? It was a waitrose fresh cod & parsley fishcake with a use by date of 1 May.

Have to agree with CountessDracula as I'm a bit woosy when it comes to use by dates. I know logically that it will be fine to eat but a little bit of OCD kicks in and I have to clear the 'fridge. Can't throw anything away when my mum's around though or I'll find her going through the bin later. She came to stay recently and had stopped off at a supermarket to get wine etc. Nice mummy. She'd also bought a reduced pot of fresh soup which she then left in the car for three days. I saw it as she was leaving and offered to throw it away for her, to which she replied - "Oh no, it'll do for me" Yuk! How did I survive 'til adulthood.

Oh it'll be fine (says she whose ds2 has had diarrhoea all day...)

If I believed the best by dates most of my food would end up in the bin. Huge tubs of taramasalata that you are supposed to use in two days!

Read a letter re sell-by dates in one of the papers yesterday. A Grandma was feeding her grandchildren a stew that she had frozen. It was older than her grandchild and he was either 10 or 11 years old! They survived - hurrah!

My ds was sacked from his student job at an hotel when he caused them to fail an H&S check. He'd forgotten to redate the Use By dates on the food in the fridges - something that hotel did all the time.

food is short dated in supermarkets.

why?

because it encourages you to throw it out and buy more!

Tesco particularly guilty of this.

having said that anyone noticed how wierdly long milk takes to go off now - its like weeks! used to be 3-4 days when i was a kid

still is for organic milk flum

....I thought this was one of those 'cliche' threads....

No.