I have some spices that are probably pushing 10+ years old that are fine tossed, they’re probably just less flavorful than fresh ones.
Stale chips. About a week or two past their best by date. They are very chewy and gross. But since I didn’t wanna waste them or go to the store, I put olive oil on them and seasoning and put them in an air fryer for a few minutes. They were bomb. Now I do this with regular salted chips. Add olive oil, seasoning Parm cheese etc.
Yoghurt about two weeks past (it was unopened previously)
Milk six days past
Red meat four days past (never frozen)
I can’t remember much else atm
Pasta that was four years past its date. Some pieces were a bit brittle and I think it went a little softer faster than what was usual but overall I didn’t notice any difference and I enjoyed it! 😃 Definitely don’t do this with already cooked pasta though! The pasta I had was raw and in a sealed bag.
I did a hamburger helper, probably 5 months ago, where the liquid cheese sauce was supposed to be white… but was more off white/sickly yellow… needless to say I only ate as much as I needed and threw the rest out. 😂
I did the best I could to support the ‘we don’t waste food in this house’ mantra. I’m sure it was fine, but i lost my appetite merely from the thought of it.
Oh good gosh I just about lost my appetite too reading this 😂 glad you were okay though!
I figured it’d be alright until the cheese came out a little off in color. Didn’t smell weird… but, I didn’t trust myself to ‘taste’ it, I wolfed down what I could stomach before I could taste it, and tossed the rest.
The shitty thing was that I had dedicated so much time to cooking everything else, once the cheese came out I had already invested too much in my sunk cost fallacy.
A guy I used to work with would put a discounted cause it’s about to go out of data’s salad on his van dashboard, in a [British] summer, leave it there for up to 6 weeks, then eat it.
I bought a cup of plain yogurt for some naan bread. However do to my natural laziness and the yogurt getting pushed to the back of the fridge I ended actually using it over a year past it’s expiration date. The yogurt looked fine, tasted fine (other than being very tangy) and ended up making some tasty naan bread.
Salt. What are the chances that my 2.5 billion year old salt will actually go bad in a few months?
It was originally sea water, but a few billion years go it went bad. After that, it’s been just as bad as the day it crystalized. Fortunately though, you can fix that very easily. Just add water.
I am using a chili sauce that’s about 2 years out of date.
Yellow curry paste - About a year. I kept it well sealed. Never had issues.
Bread - my current loaf was “best. By 11/20.” There’s no mold and I’ve continued to have my slice with no issues. I store my bread in the fridge.
Chicken - I freeze chicken and will pull out a piece to defrost. I’ve pulled out some truly ancient chicken before. Still cooked up fine.
Furikake - I just ignore the expiration to be honest. I use it until I’m out, which can be months if not a year. But it’s just rice seasoning so I don’t think he could do much damage anyway.
Way back when, one convenience store had milk that was stored super cold and/or was super pasteurized, it would stay good 30+ days after the expiration date. I think the longest I went was in the low 40s days after expiration and it tasted completely normal.
the shop I work in lets staff take written off stuff just so it isn’t going to waste so I regularly eat food that’s past the expiry date, I think the oldest thing was a bottle of pepsi max lime that was a bit over a year out. It was still fizzy but idk if it tasted off or if I just didn’t like the flavour.
Last week I ate a cup of applesauce that expired in 2018. It wasn’t swollen or discolored. Tasted good, didn’t get sick.
I had this pack of hamburger buns that were absolutely in perfect shape months after their expiry. The inside of that pack much have been perfectly sterile.
My brother ate an 8 year old Twinky we found when we were in boy scouts. We were cleaning out the troops chuck wagon (food and cooking trailer. Something got lost at the back of a deeper storage compartment, and being the little skinny kid, I volunteered to climb in to find it. I noticed the Twinky slipped into a crack and read the date with amazement. The thing was over half as old as I was, and must have been sitting in that trailer, outdoors, for at least most of that time! After pardeing it around demanding everyone “behold the ancient Twinky” someone dared me to eat it. I never liked Twinkies, but as I’d already confirmed it was still sealed, and my brother was hungry, he didn’t hesitate to claim that dare. We all watched in suspense for his reaction, and were disappointed when he just shrugged and said that it tasted a little dry, but otherwise no different than normal.
This can of pineapple slices has been found in the back of the food cabinet in December 2020. Its expiration date was in July 2017. I did not open it. I carefully removed the can outside right into the trash bin. I didi’t want to risk an explosion of this fruit bomb.
Curry paste, like maybe a year and a half past expiration date. It’s one of those things that if they are not moldy they are good, the taste just dies down. So I just made the curry with extra paste and it was yummy!
