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I don't tend to worry about things being a little past the sell by date like a day or so, however my mum the other day ate a creme caramel she found in the fridge and gave one to dad and they were dated 27th April They were both fine but there's no way I would of touched it with a barge pole! Dad said she didn't tell him till he'd finished it either

My mum would eat most things months out of date.

If it's fresh food esp yogurts or milk i don't tend to let it go over by much but with tinned etc you have a lot greater leeway.

yeah tinned stuff I wouldn't be too worried but anything out the fridge I would approach with caution.

You've looked in my fridge then

There didn't seem too much to worry about in there hardly room for food with all the beer cans

Well you've got to have provisions incase a man comes calling...not that they do very often...is 1995 beer ok to drink now?

i've still got a condom from 1993, do you think it'll be ok?

Depends if it's been used or not

urgh, nice!

what about cornflakes? I have a big packet which expired nov 2004 - thats nearly a year ago.

And how many times it has been washed

I don't know how far back i would go when it comes to eating food, but i don't think it would be too far though. I dunno, something like a month maybe.

this is some thing I'm quite pedantic about actually - I always end up throwing stuff out of the fridge away if it is out of date......even packets of stuff, tins, cans etc - I get a bit snobby about it

my dad is always giving me a hard time about it - and slags me off for being ridiculous

*although I did drink some out of date Miller once as it was all he had in the house*

yep agree with felicity about this, I'm a bit anal about out of date stuff when it's probably ok

Tinned stuff should be OK if it's not dented but any fresh stuff looking mildly non-pristine gets the bin...though I did once eat mouldy toast..by accident

I binned a large bag of Lightly Salted Doritos on Sat night, they were unopened but had end of July on them....