voted 1-2 weeks because by then i start to wonder.
but it depends a lot on a product. a milk will go bad in 3 days, whereass i ate cheese 2 months after expiry date and that was ok.
Usually i dont even look at the expiry date. when the food starts being covered in miss, i just cut the moss away and eat the rest. no problems with that. The obviuos exception is milk, that i throw away after it starts tasting bad. some food can stay for 10 years.
There are usually 2 types of date labelling. Use by and Best before. Some products have both dates
Best before=Quality is acceptable up until the printed date, after that quality(vitamin content, texture and such) is deemed unacceptable but still safe to consume. Usually printed on processed foods
Use by=food safety is compromised after printed date. Products cannot be legally sold when its past the useby because of potential health risks. Usually found on perishable foods.
here we have "lasts till" and there is no difference.
Risky?
It WILL kill you.
After a week it will start to "smell" which is the stage to make you ill.
A week after that is bad food poisoning.
A week after that and it's hospital.
A few months? That's off to the morgue with you.
well, i just finished eating turkey that was 3 weeks old this weekend. no poisoning whatsoever, i just cut off the parts that started to rot. Yeah, i dont really throw away food ever. and my stomach can handle it.
Depends on the food in question. Eggs, I'll throw out if they stayed more than a week after the "best before" date (although that would be probably about two weeks in, otherwise I'll just boil them and keep them if I notice)
funny thing, if you keep the eggs near 0 they can last pretty much like canned food. i rarely eat eggs so sometimes they stay for over a month (actually i got 2 that are 3 months old in the fridge as i write this) and they are completely fine. you jsut have to keep them cool and in one piece.
busterkeatonrules said:
A date is just a number. I go by smell alone. If it smells all right, it IS all right!
smell doesnt always work. sometimes a bread that is freshly baked smells awful. i mean when you pick up a loaf of bread that is still warm and you can see the ovens it jut been in (we got bakeries inside supermarkets, yay?) and it smells like its molden you cant trust the smell.
