Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
May 8th 2017, 11:38 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
If that is the cheese in a blue can along with tinned fish it was available all over the Middle East even in the most remote rat hole places.
I have eaten a large amount over the years never checked the sell by date but I am pretty sure some would have been well past it.
I never came across a bad can.
I have eaten a large amount over the years never checked the sell by date but I am pretty sure some would have been well past it.
I never came across a bad can.
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May 8th 2017, 11:40 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
Have you eaten it yet?
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May 9th 2017, 1:32 am
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
I just looked in our 'medicine cabinet' ... we have a "Vicks Formula 44" cough medicine with an expiration date of 2000, and a Tylenol sore throat bottle with an expiration of 2004. This is after asking her to get rid of all unnecessary stuff from the cabinet (and she did get rid of a lot!).
I needed some cortizone cream recently, and had a choice of two tubes, one expired 2002, the other 2008. I tossed both of them and bought a new one (without asking the g/f's permission ... otherwise she would have told me to keep them!).
I needed some cortizone cream recently, and had a choice of two tubes, one expired 2002, the other 2008. I tossed both of them and bought a new one (without asking the g/f's permission ... otherwise she would have told me to keep them!).
May 9th 2017, 3:11 am
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
There is cheese in it, but it isn't cheese.
Assuming that you haven't been pulling our legs about preferring this stuff, you could save time and money by buying similar products that are made for the US market. Your bog standard "American cheese" isn't real cheese, but a processed product that contains cheese, similar to what is in your can of expired stuff.
(There is American cheese that is actual cheese, but the stuff at the supermarket usually isn't. "Cheese food" is a dead giveaway.)
Assuming that you haven't been pulling our legs about preferring this stuff, you could save time and money by buying similar products that are made for the US market. Your bog standard "American cheese" isn't real cheese, but a processed product that contains cheese, similar to what is in your can of expired stuff.
(There is American cheese that is actual cheese, but the stuff at the supermarket usually isn't. "Cheese food" is a dead giveaway.)
May 9th 2017, 3:35 am
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
There is cheese in it, but it isn't cheese.
Assuming that you haven't been pulling our legs about preferring this stuff, you could save time and money by buying similar products that are made for the US market. Your bog standard "American cheese" isn't real cheese, but a processed product that contains cheese, similar to what is in your can of expired stuff.
(There is American cheese that is actual cheese, but the stuff at the supermarket usually isn't. "Cheese food" is a dead giveaway.)
Assuming that you haven't been pulling our legs about preferring this stuff, you could save time and money by buying similar products that are made for the US market. Your bog standard "American cheese" isn't real cheese, but a processed product that contains cheese, similar to what is in your can of expired stuff.
(There is American cheese that is actual cheese, but the stuff at the supermarket usually isn't. "Cheese food" is a dead giveaway.)
May 9th 2017, 10:22 am
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
I just looked in our 'medicine cabinet' ... we have a "Vicks Formula 44" cough medicine with an expiration date of 2000, and a Tylenol sore throat bottle with an expiration of 2004. This is after asking her to get rid of all unnecessary stuff from the cabinet (and she did get rid of a lot!).
I needed some cortizone cream recently, and had a choice of two tubes, one expired 2002, the other 2008. I tossed both of them and bought a new one (without asking the g/f's permission ... otherwise she would have told me to keep them!).
I needed some cortizone cream recently, and had a choice of two tubes, one expired 2002, the other 2008. I tossed both of them and bought a new one (without asking the g/f's permission ... otherwise she would have told me to keep them!).
I personally take tablets within a few months of expiry, but that's because I've worked in labs doing stability testing and can find out how each type "go off" and can take an educated risk. However, there is no way on this earth I'd be using ANY creams or liquids 10 years old, because at that age you are well into the risk of it causing actual harm rather than just doing no good.
(food - if it's not meat or fish and it passes checks for smell and appearance and it hasn't been left out where the cats could lick it then all good to go.)
May 9th 2017, 12:04 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
Their effectiveness depends on how long their life was in the first place. A drug with a shelf life of 12 months may be completely useless after 15 months, whereas a drug with a shelf life of 10 years may still be effective, and safe, after 12 years.
May 9th 2017, 12:37 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
When in doubt, throw it out. And you should have doubts.
If you insist on ignoring that bit of common sense advice, then look at it and smell it. If it seems OK, then try just a little bit of it and see what happens.
If you aren't dead or hospitalized as a result, then try a bit more. If it does kill you, then you'll stop on your own accord.
It can't be that different from Velveeta, which is another offensive Kraft faux-cheese product that is widely available here in the good ol' USA. Try that -- you'll probably like it.
If you insist on ignoring that bit of common sense advice, then look at it and smell it. If it seems OK, then try just a little bit of it and see what happens.
If you aren't dead or hospitalized as a result, then try a bit more. If it does kill you, then you'll stop on your own accord.
It can't be that different from Velveeta, which is another offensive Kraft faux-cheese product that is widely available here in the good ol' USA. Try that -- you'll probably like it.
May 9th 2017, 1:15 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
That's because the shelf life is based on several assumptions - for the sealed, unopened product stored in general ambient conditions (or whatever temperature the instructions say). Once it's open, and you're storing it in a hot, humid bathroom or in the glove compartment of the car then all bets are off.
May 9th 2017, 1:58 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
All decay reactions are downward sloping curves, some steeper than others. There isn't a dramatic change in the gradient on the expiry date. If the drug was degrading slowly it will continue to degrade slowly, and if it was degrading quickly it will continue to degrade quickly.
May 9th 2017, 2:06 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
I made clam chowder last night with clams from the dollar store, and as an afterthought checked the expiration date; May 2017! Pure luck. If the can isn't punctured, swollen, rusted, been frozen..... and the stuff doesn't smell off, I'll usually eat it. If I won't eat or drink something then you're better off leaving it, I have the digestive tract of a black bear.
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May 9th 2017, 2:11 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
I wouldn't lie to you, Pulaski. Check out the Teatime Choices thread in Maple Leaf..
I have a stash of canned food piled on the bottom of a kitchen trolley, there may be another can in there expired last year for all I know, but it's mostly still going to be in good shape. Expired dollar store salsa was inedible, (I told them and they took it down). Some stuff keeps better than others, and the smell test decides.
I have a stash of canned food piled on the bottom of a kitchen trolley, there may be another can in there expired last year for all I know, but it's mostly still going to be in good shape. Expired dollar store salsa was inedible, (I told them and they took it down). Some stuff keeps better than others, and the smell test decides.
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May 9th 2017, 4:41 pm
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Re: Eating foods that are well past their expirationd date
Nope. You can't make any assumptions about the rate or type of change/degradation based on the shelf life itself. Plus you would never get a shelf life of more than 5 years for ANY product - you'd be hard pushed to get more than 3 years, even if the product is rock solid.
That's because the shelf life is based on several assumptions - for the sealed, unopened product stored in general ambient conditions (or whatever temperature the instructions say). Once it's open, and you're storing it in a hot, humid bathroom or in the glove compartment of the car then all bets are off.
That's because the shelf life is based on several assumptions - for the sealed, unopened product stored in general ambient conditions (or whatever temperature the instructions say). Once it's open, and you're storing it in a hot, humid bathroom or in the glove compartment of the car then all bets are off.
