how old is TOO old???

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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    urbanhippie wrote:
    A sell by date is usually a guide, a use by date is usually an instruction. Canned and dried goods would probably be ok, but I'd take care with 'fresh' or chilled food. But hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained :)

    oh and of course, dried/dry foods! I've got tons and tons of macaroni (apparently it's a fashionable gift to someone who's moving to their own flat) and I probably won't be able to consume it all before the 'use by' date but I'm sure they'll be ok. :D
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,402
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

    So how old is too old when it comes to food for YOU?? will you eat something after it has expired, or at least give it a try to see if it's edible?

    Oh, hell yes. I routinely eat yogurt that is a month or more past the date. :D
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  • Shawn Smith Collective
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    I live (in health) by this mantra: "When in doubt, throw it out."
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  • Zanne
    Zanne Posts: 899
    Shawn Smith Collective wrote:
    I live (in health) by this mantra: "When in doubt, throw it out."

    Agreed 100%
    Just me
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    yeah... fridge...and you're right!!! BLEH!!!
    Wait a minute.. Wasn't your power out too!!!!

    :eek: :eek:
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  • jeffbr
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    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    "Honey? Will you sniff this?" '

    LOL. I have a very acute sense of smell. When she does this, I'll take a sniff. If I dry-heave she won't eat it.
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  • the wolf
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    Black Diamond wrote:
    Wait a minute.. Wasn't your power out too!!!!

    :eek: :eek:


    no shit ! :eek: i forgot her power was out !!!!!! yuck !!!

    Brandi, you a nasty ass !! ;)
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  • mickeyrat
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    iluvcats wrote:
    do not use past exp. date.
    Now the REAL question is how long after a BEST by date will food still be at least edible
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  • iluvcats
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    mickeyrat wrote:
    Now the REAL question is how long after a BEST by date will food still be at least edible

    that is the date, best by 11/9/08, for example... do not eat after that.

    my problem, is stuff we froze, even though we dated it. I had wrapped up chicken breasts really well and I took them out of the freezer the other day.
    They were frozen in December 2007. My mom said that since they were in my regular freezer that we're opening constantly (as opposed to one of the big ones no one goes in), she said to throw it away, it may be freezer burn. They looked really good but I still threw them away.

    I think I have an old pamphlet that I bought at the grocery store a million years ago (the eighties, lol) that explains this stuff. I think diff. cuts of meat are good in the freezer for diff. time periods.
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  • iluvcats
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    do you know what my dirty mind thought the first time I saw the subject of this thread?

    since you are now single, I thought you were asking how old is too old (for you to have sex with an older guy!)
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  • roar
    roar Posts: 1,116
    iluvcats wrote:
    do you know what my dirty mind thought the first time I saw the subject of this thread?

    since you are now single, I thought you were asking how old is too old (for you to have sex with an older guy!)

    haha, i thought the same thing.
    (i'm all about the older man, but i'd say 40 - for myself ;))

    yeah...
    i'm a "when in doubt, throw it out" kinda girl...and i'm sure my paranoia wastes perfectly good food.
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    roar wrote:
    haha, i thought the same thing.
    (i'm all about the older man, but i'd say 40 - for myself ;))

    yeah...
    i'm a "when in doubt, throw it out" kinda girl...and i'm sure my paranoia wastes perfectly good food.

    and I'm all about the younger man! (my husband is 8 years younger)
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