ITV1 now - sell by dates for food

[NotABanana]

The presenter is going to eat food past its sell by date for two weeks.

I'm going to watch this.

I agree with him - if it looks ok and doesn't honk, it's most likely alright to eat!

I would never give my children food that is past its use by date but I have had food past its best before date if I really wamted it or had no alternative.

I would never give my children food that is past its use by date but I have had food past its best before date if I really wamted it or had no alternative.

have jsut put it on to watch.... hmm not sure about chicken that smells.. but my rule is that if its smells bad it prob is... unless its blue cheese obviously..

But he's not puked... so proves something?

hm, green bread - nah... green crusts = chop them off!

But hes eating slimy stinky chicken and rotty mince!!

ewwwww

But he's not been ill at all...

are we just entrenched in "it's past the date, it's off" and lacking in our past traditions of using our heads?

I mean, eggs with use-by dates? Surely if you crack it open and it honks, it's off - if it doesn't, it's fine! They never used to have dates on!

But the chicken DID honk, his wife said so but he still ate it!

Surely thats defeating the point of 'open it and see if it still looks and smells fresh?'

my kids have a thng for sellby dates - i keep telling 'em - it doesn't go green come midnight y'know.

God they should have just gone to live round ILs house - they eat things that have been sitting in the fridge for years and only throw it if it has grown legs and crawled into the garden itself!

My XMIL was the worst - she reckoned tins never went off until she came back from her hols and a tin of peaches had exploded in the cupboard (went of of date late 70s!) - and she just wiped it round with a damp cloth - the cupboard I mean not the tin of peaches - the minger - it smelt in there for years. XFIL used to sniff things and then lick them first as he was under the impression that it would make you barf immediately if it was really off!

LOL @ barf immediately