Do you eat ...

[Tender Branson]

A mix of "Yes, why not ?" and "It depends".

I often eat joghurts that have expired for a few weeks, but who do not have any sign of mould on them and they are no different than new ones.

I have eaten chocolate that was expired for 6 months to a year and it was no different than new one.

The only exception I make is with milk and meat, which I won't eat after expired for a few days. But I'm anyway buying just the amount that I need, so this hardly ever happens.

What about you ?

[Fritz]

If it looks and smells okay, I wouldn't throw something out for no other reason than the date.

[Panda Express]

Uh, no.

[They not like us]

My mom goes grocery shopping on a weekly basis, so no.

[dead0man]

If it looks and smells okay, I wouldn't throw something out for no other reason than the date.

[traininthedistance]

Option 2.

Things like canned goods and dry grains are built to last well beyond the printed expiration date, though I'll generally try to use them within a month or two anyway, just because.

Anything that needs to be refrigerated (dairy, eggs, etc.) gets used beforehand or it gets thrown out. Better to be cautious on that stuff.

[ElectionsGuy]

Usually I'll find out something is expired by eating it.

[TDAS04]

Not knowingly. 

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Eggs need to be refrigerated now?

Well, that'd be a mix of this personally:

The only exception I make is with milk and meat, which I won't eat after expired for a few days.

...and this...

If it looks and smells okay, I wouldn't throw something out for no other reason than the date.

That's a long time I stopped to 'believe' (well, isn't it as serious as a belief?) in that date stuff.

Thus I do with my own senses. Never been betrayed so far.

But yeah, stuffs like meat/fish/eggs/milk, need to be more seriously checked out. Well, a good cooking of all of this would be enough to not be endangered.

The only remaining issue being taste, sometimes it's ok, sometimes not so much,and heck I won't hurt my palate just to play brave, so when it wouldn't be risky but would be unpleasant, I'm not in.

The biggest I've done have been some 1,5 months passed out industrial lardons (diced bacon), I paid attention to fry them well, was fine, and taste remained decent too.

On the other hand, once, there's been this whole chicken that I had let in the fridge, not cooked, was 3 weeks passed out, heck, I didn't want to throw it. Gave it a try, tried to cook it the best I could. The chest tasted kinda normal, but the most I went into it, the most you could feel a kind of 'odd taste'. So, I cooked it twice, was better, but still kinda annoying, but I forced myself to finish it, kinda like a punition to have let this being spoiled while it was some quality label chicken.

Happened again though with an other chicken, same 'model', but only 10 days/2 weeks then. And here, not unplasant taste.

In any case, no health problem.

But as I had said once, I'm a tough French used to all kinds of cheeses, might help ^^, unlike all those bloody American hygienists...

But anyways, I buy less and less often meat and seafood, so it rarely happens.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

If it looks and smells okay, I wouldn't throw something out for no other reason than the date.

Of course my wife is a date nazi so I don't usually get the opportunity to check it out.

[Badger]

My in-laws were born in the Depression and grew up struggling. I think it, plus being elderly in a rural area where they could get snowed in, radically affected their attitudes about food scarcity. It was to the point that in addition to having a usually overstocked fridge in the kitchen, they had two FULLY stocked freezers in the garage and a basement with shelves fully loaded with canned/jarred items. BUT, they'd continually add to their stock and eat the old stuff.

I'm not a dainty eater, nor expect food to be 'organic fresh'. Quite the opposite: I'm. Known for having a cast-iron stomach able to devour meat leftovers left out a night or two on the stove, or cooking happily with chicken grease that sat out overnight in a covered pot while camping and suffering no ill effects. When I ate at my in laws, however, I recall repeatedly having to surreptitiously spit out GROSSLY freezer-burned food (e.g. breakfast sausages, vegetable soup, even skunked beer ). My wife, through a combination of having inured her taste buds under that roof and being cowled growing up during her father's authoritarian phase, never warned me until it was too late (I.e. the rotted food was in my mouth). We used to have to play this bizarre game where I would beg off eating for any number of reasons (ate on trip up, upset stomach) and then would sneak off to town for McDonald's. Sometimes on a multi-day trip I'd stock up in an order, leave the burgers in the car during winter, then would walk out to wolf down a cold Quarter Pounder while hiding crouched in the snow behind my car so as not to hurt her parents'  feelings.

I used to wonder if I was more of an effete city boy than I thought, until the wife started sneaking food with me here too. Then several weeks ago family members started to clear out the house somewhat in anticipation of my in-laws moving into assisted housing, and the FIRST thing they did was clean out the freezers and basement of ALL the food; they didn't even try to save any of it. There were frozen sausage containers with 2009 expiration dates! I guess it wasn't just me who was effected (or affected).

As we're up here now for my father-in-law's funeral preparations (he passed Thursday surrounded by family as we prayed over him; it was as good a death as one could hope for, and a blessed release considering his circumstances. Like Joan Rivers, he was 81), I'm being sent out momentarily by the wife and her siblings for groceries to "supplement" what my mother-in-law has in stock.

So no, short answer is I'm not a fan of food past it's date at all.

[politicallefty]

It depends. I don't trust meat past the expiration date. However, dairy items like cheese and yogurt last far past the expiration date. If milk is past its date, the smell test almost always works. (I've heard the rule that milk lasts about a week past expiration.)

[Holmes]

If it passes the smell test. Things like dairy and milk are an exception, but I don't usually let those kinds of things expire in the first place.

[tik 🪀✨]

Yeah, to an extent, unless they're moldy. If I find a spot of mold on one slice of bread I won't eat any of the rest of the loaf. I would certainly not eat yogurt past its use by (unless its only a couple days) because I don't trust dairy to keep.

On the other hand on one occasion I dug into the back of the pantry lookin for pop tarts I'd bought recently. But, once I found them and ate two, discovered they were two years past date! They didn't even taste or smell odd. What the hell are they made of? I had cramps for a few hours and generally felt gross but otherwise suffered no bad effects.

Wilted veggies, I'll eat (unless they've developed a slimy skin) and meat I'll just cook for longer (unless it's a processed deli meat).

I wonder about pickled stuff once opened. I've got pickled onions in the fridge that you're supposed to consume a few days once opened.. but they smell fine. And can bacteria even survive in an environment like that? I thought that was half the point of pickling.

[Storebought]

Yeah, to an extent, unless they're moldy. If I find a spot of mold on one slice of bread I won't eat any of the rest of the loaf. I would certainly not eat yogurt past its use by (unless its only a couple days) because I don't trust dairy to keep .

On the other hand on one occasion I dug into the back of the pantry lookin for pop tarts I'd bought recently. But, once I found them and ate two, discovered they were two years past date! They didn't even taste or smell odd. What the hell are they made of? I had cramps for a few hours and generally felt gross but otherwise suffered no bad effects.

Wilted veggies, I'll eat (unless they've developed a slimy skin) and meat I'll just cook for longer (unless it's a processed deli meat).

I wonder about pickled stuff once opened. I've got pickled onions in the fridge that you're supposed to consume a few days once opened.. but they smell fine. And can bacteria even survive in an environment like that? I thought that was half the point of pickling.

You're missing out: Yogurt tastes the best well after -- two weeks or so --  its expiration date.

But, yeah, I throw out an entire loaf of bread if one spot is found on a slice, but even then it's already too late. The mold has already thoroughly colonized the loaf before a single fruiting body becomes visible.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Generally things like mustard or jams...

[Lief 🗽]

Today I made some breakfast burritos with eggs from the fridge and the carton said they expire today so I hope I don't die.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Today I made some breakfast burritos with eggs from the fridge and the carton said they expire today so I hope I don't die.

Eggs are generally safe some weeks after the due date, but if you try making a sunny-side up fried egg with them, the sun will be awfully flat.  Also, here's a fun tip for those of you who like hard-boiled eggs.  When you boil them, eat them at most one week after boiling, even if the egg wouldn't have passed its due date yet if you hadn't boiled them.  Boiling affects the shell membrane so that it no longer acts as a barrier to mold and the like.