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[omegod]

SWMBO is amazingly paranoid about sell by dates etc and storing food after cooking, I generally dont care, will eat most things unless they are obviously manky and have never had food poisoning or even a dicky belly.

We have a big slab of leftover roast pork from Sunday in the fridge, well cooked and well wrapped but she recoiled in horror when I was going to have a sarnie earlier on!  I had no qualms and scoffed it but would you have?
 
I can't see people having been so paranoid in the fourties and fifties so why so now.

[Vamps]

SWMBO is amazingly paranoid about sell by dates etc and storing food after cooking, I generally dont care, will eat most things unless they are obviously manky and have never had food poisoning or even a dicky belly.

We have a big slab of leftover roast pork from Sunday in the fridge, well cooked and well wrapped but she recoiled in horror when I was going to have a sarnie earlier on!  I had no qualms and scoffed it but would you have?
 
I can't see people having been so paranoid in the fourties and fifties so why so now.

We are too quick to throw food away these days, that pork will be fine, only 2 days since cooked  and its in a fridge, not just on a marble shelf in the larder:y  good for the rest of the week I would have thought......

[PhilRich]

Keep on eating it in sarnies until it starts to turn green, then cut it into chunks & toss it in a pan with some curry powder! Lovely Grub!!!

[cam2502]

2 days after is the max i would eat it,certainly wouldnt touch it after a week

[Dishevelled Den]

It would also depend on how cold the fridge is I would imagine.

[omegod]

It would also depend on how cold the fridge is I would imagine.

It's colder than my ex's heart so no worries there!

[Amigo]

You do have to be careful but i tend to agree that we can tell if something is fit to eat or not
& many are too quick to throw food out...probably never had student/bedsit days & been REALLY hungry. I've kept uneaten sarnies in my pack up box for two or three days, still fine. Cut the mouldy edge off the cheese, fine underneath, no need to throw good food out when others are starving. goes to show how lucky we are to have the choice.

   If your better half was that worried about you eating Sundays pork why was it still in the fridge? Be careful with seafood though!!!!

[Martin_1962]

You should not be throwing any food away - it is a waste

[jonnycool]

I sniff it - if it smells ok, it gets scoffed 

[Kevin Wood]

I sniff it - if it smells ok, it gets scoffed 

Yep. If it's not minging, hasn't run away of its' own accord and hasn't got furry, It's fair game.

[Webby the Bear]

gorillas eat their on shit; you dont hear them complaining of food poisoning.

eat it unless it's green 'n' furry is my rule 

[Jimbob]

A sunday roast normally keeps me in beef butties till friday

[Andy B]

A sunday roast normally keeps me in beef butties till friday

How big is your Sunday roast? There's very rarely anything left of ours on the Sunday ........... we're greedy buggers. 

[Bionic]

Too much food is now thrown out due to people being brainwashed by the idiots who proclaim that it is unfit. Unfit for what? Could it be that it is unfit because the manufacturers and retailers will lose lots of profits if they cannot sell more to us and so conceal the truth?
I agree with the majority of those old enough to remember that at one time nothing got thrown out until it was totally beyond salvage even with the ubiquitous curry powder because it was too exopensive to do so.
It does not take a brain surgeon to know when food is off and cannot be eaten without risk. We have a well developed senses of sight, taste and smell so anyone who eats it when it is telling them that it is off only get what they deserve.
Seafood is the worst offender and is so good at disguising when its off that you should stick to the sell by and consume by dates.
Brings to thought the old days when we used to 'aquire' game and let it hang until the maggotts had come and gone......now that was tender meat!

[bob.dent]

I sniff it - if it smells ok, it gets scoffed 

Yep, I'll go along with that. I only use the "use by" dates as a guide, so if it's only a couple of days past and smells ok it's fair game. Cooked meat if wrapped and in fridge should be good for 4-5 days.