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If your chicken expires on 14/7, would you still cook it and feed your family?

Unless it's stored in a freezer, I wouldn't.

I rather buy a new chicken than risking my life over a few bucks.

Yes, if it still smells good.

However, I won't do it if it had expired the day before.

What did you decide to do?

Yes, why not. Add some spice and cook it on open fire. Fire will kill all the bacterias and spice will add/mix/hide taste.

Lots depends on where this chicken was held. If it was for a long time on the sun, then no. In fridge - cook it today or in next few days, in freezer - can be kept for a month or more.

No, don't take such risks because you might end up spending few thousand dollars when you try to few dollars.Be smart and take risk on the appropriate places and amount not just everywhere.Maybe you have to eat if the whole world is facing drought and you have money but there is no availability of food or for survival of the life.

Usually if it's too long and it smells bad, I will not allow anyone to eat that.

But if the indication through odor isn't bad and it's good, why not? that's why the process of keeping it is very important.

Does Covid Frankenmeat have an expiration date?     ;D

Just buy a new one. In the case that I had no choice, I would a bite or two. If my stomach is still ok a couple of hours later, then maybe I'll eat more.

of course not, that would only make them sick...
I would rather just give my family only rice or bread with soy sauce and chili than give them expired meat. giving my family to eat meat that has expired will only make me lose money because surely they will get a stomachache.

If the chicken is stored in a freezer and doesnt have a bad smell, then I will cook it.

Otherwise I'd rather buy a new one to make sure its fresh. Health is wealth you know.

Same day as expiry date is fine to eat, anything after beware. There's ways to tell if meat gone bad for specific meats but universally if it's slimy or smells off just throw it in the bin. Saving a few dollars on meat is NEVER worth the stomach ache and misery of eating bad meat. Just eat some ramen and be more mindful next time.

I guess expired chicken is different from rotten chicken?. Meaning they could expire without getting rottened, right?
Well, if it's really unsafe to eat expired chicken, I would throw it away. But, it would be kind of worrying to see stuff like that get thrown away. Next time I will probably roast my chickens for long-term storage than see them expired again. That's what people traditionally do to prevent them from getting rotten. I wonder if that could also save them from expiration... Probably depends on how long you store them??

If it is the same date as the expired date then I would cook it.
Otherwise I won't. To tell you the truth, even if you cook it the next day from the expiration date you are not going to have any health problems as those dates are just indications with slack times on them.

If the chicken stays in freezer?even if it is week expired that is still good to cook,But if it is exposed outside the freezer and just bring it back to freeze again then that might be contaminated and not good to eat.

there are some process in locals in which the food has been left exposed to have bad smell before eating,but i dont do this practice lol.

There is a reason why we have expiry dates for our edible items, consuming any expired food can cause food poisoning even it leds to kill on rare occasions.Okay now let's talk about chicken,if it is just a frozen chicken you can cook well and eat but the taste may not be the best or if it is any processed food then its better to avoid.

I never let the chicken too long because I always cook after I buy the chicken, so I don't make it expired.

When I buy chicken or meat, I don't keep it for a long time before I cook because the taste will be different than the first day I bought, so I need to cook as soon as possible. I don't want to see my family get sick because they eat expired meat.

I just realized OP titled this thread meats but referred to chicken and now everyone's posting about that bird ;D

Dates are always indicated with a small margin, to be able to use the meat is not sold after the expiration date, rather than throw it away and waste. Therefore, if there are no apparent signs of deterioration of the product, you can confidently use it. My friends working in the food industry, so that this information is not taken from my imagination.

Of course, this applies to meat (and other foods) that have been stored under the right conditions. If the conditions were not met, then it will deteriorate even before the expiration date.

I don't think meat expires, specially when kept in freeze. Like if it's gotten damaged then no, but surely the official date of meat expiry generally is very sooner than actually the meat is unconsumeable at all. Because it's non veg things, and also depends on which season it is tbh.

Have you eat anything after which got expired? Definitely it will taste bad and I had experienced with drinks like coke much often because most of the supermarkets are trying to sell the expired drinks, literally they are waste on most of the occasions.

Meat has a "best before" date - not expiry date.  There is no reason you can't eat meat months after the best before date, if it is refrigerated. 

Certainly I will not continue to cook chicken and expired food because it will be harmful to me and all members of my family and will cause us to be poisoned for sure. I always prefer to buy fresh chicken, it is more beneficial and safer than frozen chicken

You wrote this on 14/7, same day, so the answer is: Yes.

Most things are good even after the expiry date, but you could restrict it to adults if you are afraid of something.

My experience with eating things post the "best before" date, is that they may taste funny, but not a big deal. Frozen meat does last until unfrozen, more or less.

Perhaps he couldn't wait any longer and had already devoured the meat.

OP, do update us how it tasted ;D

The date on the package is the minimum required date to be fresh. Companies don't want to get sued over bad meat so they always will take some days before the meat actually expires.

If the color is still normal and it doesn't smell very bad you can still eat it.

One tip would be to just put in the freezer right after buying it, if it takes a few days for you to prepare it. In the freezer it can be stored much longer.

I would not cook it and feed to my family, i would not risk my stomach even it's on the fridge it can cause diarrhea. I just buy new and fresh meat in the market.

You're right if it's doesn't have bad smell and looks good, i will cook it also  But i don't recommend cooking meat on expired date, it's possible that your family will be sick if you cooked it. Just buy new one if you had a budget.

You are not going to have stomach problems by cooking a meat or chicken that has expired one day ago.
Companies are giving slack expiration dates for this reason. They want to protect their brands as well.

Yeah mate and the meat will only get bad when we took off the freezer and after cooling down then will bring back to freezer again.

But if meat will stay in freezer then it is safe even months after the best before seal.

then you don't know what frozen food is all about.

i recommend it if you wanna get sick, if not, don't do it :)

ended up tossing it to the ally dogs since it was not a good cut of meat

I've eaten months-old fish left in the freezer before, nothing happened.

In the end, just came out as poo-poo.

if the expired meat has not been stored in the freezer it is not advisable to consume it after the expiry date and perhaps not even the last day of the expiry is valid for all types of meat

Grouse!!! joke hahahaha

Yeah had been eating also left overs that stays for month in the freezer but nothing happens.

and I  usually buy more that our budget per week every grocery time and it happens that added every week.

So in the end plenty of meat left under the freezer.

It depends why the chicken expired. If it was diseased, and then chlorinated, then I wouldn't eat it under any circumstances. In the past I've hung road kill pheasant until the maggots arrive, and they banged off the maggots, and cooked it. That is the way you get the true rich game flavour. I'm not sure that is advisable with most modern farm reared chickens though.

Meat never expires it decomposes. If you have kept your chicken in an airtight container and stored it in a freezer it will never decompose and hence it can be consumed. Those expiry dates do not make any sense unless the meat has been processed.

I wouldn't risk it, better eat veggies and rice. Eating rotten meat sound dangerous.

not only sounds dangerous! it really dangerous...
Rotted flesh is very sensitive to outside air and will speed up the creation of worms plus the aroma produced by that meat is certainly very smelly. you better eat the other, don't sacrifice your family's health just because you want to be economical.

If you freeze meat well, you can still eat it even a couple days after expire date. I do it all the time, especially if I "don't feel like chicken today"  ;D You should still take care, maybe if your freezer wasn't closed for a night or so because you forgot it, you should consider throwing all meats away  ;)

You should  read  the  thread  and not only  the title.

Foods that stays in freezer  for more than a month after the expiry date not mean it is rotten.

This  is frozen good and not coming from trash.

nope why should  i feed them when i can just buy new and fresh one?
and actually our family is a fresh advocate and we are not eating not fresh one.

Freezing extend the life of meat, allowing you to still eat it and still safe.

You can see or smell the meat if it's good to eat or you needed to throw it as it will only harm you in terms of your health concern.

It is not always easy to get my hands on fresh meats when i need it so thats why i asked this question.

Almost every super market have fresh meat section so you are living in a remote area where you can't easily access such stores?

Most of the time meats are dead when we eat them. I mean, who goes out to the field, finds a steer, and takes a bite out of him while he is looking at you. Gotta watch out for those horns.

Isn't it true that most of the time we cook the chicken before we eat it?

The point is that all those meats are dead meat. Even the rotten ones aren't alive in the way they originally were.

So, when we eat meat, expired or not, we give it new life... our life. It's a life that is better for them than if they had gone on living in their own way... except in the case of cannibalization, that is. :D

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If the product expires today, then I will not eat this product, much less feed my family with it. Another thing is with frozen foods. Their shelf life is measured not in days, but in months. So if it's a frozen food, then I'll look at it after thawing. And then I will decide whether to cook it or not.

Correct, if you can refrigerate then the life increases and if not able to do it, then just avoid eating it simple. You cannot take a risk of eating the expired food then be it anything and harm your health and others too whoever eats it. So instead look for alternatives which are fresh and healthy as well.

It is better not to eat other animals, if only because our body is not adapted to such food (we do not have a high acidity of the stomach, we have a long small intestine (not short as in predators), we do not have large canines (as in predators or omnivores), we do not have claws, we do not have the sight that is needed to hunt other animals, we do not have that aggression (we do not want to attack a cow or a bunny when we see them).

But we are not herbivores either (they also differ from us in all respects). We are fruit-eating in all respects (vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, herbs, nuts, grains, cereals, honey etc).

Idk.. Is it deep frozen in freezer or its just sitting in the ordinary refrigerator ?
I thing if you put it out from the freezer and you unfroze it there will be no problem, but if it sat in the refrigerator, definitely will not feet my self or my family.

It would depend on how it was preserve and if it have a bad smell then no I wouldn't cook it for my family.
But if it has been well preserved and it doesn't have a bad smell I would completely clean it by washing it and try to boil the meat first.
But as much as I could I would avoid having those kind of meat for my family I wouldn't mind spending more money to secure their health rather than risking it by buying cheap meat at the market.
It could cost more if they ever got sick because of it.

" Eating expired meat,🤔If you do eat a food past the expiration date [and the food] is spoiled, you could develop symptoms of food poisoning," said registered dietitian nutritionist Summer Yule, MS. The symptoms of foodborne illness can include fever, chills, stomach cramps, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting

Eating spoiled food is probably not a good idea. I would recommend to always smell and taste the food before eating, if it smells or taste wierd, don't eat it. The expiration dates on the packages are usually a minimum date for the companies to protect themself if anything goes wrong. Which doesn't mean that the food will be bad 1 day after the expiration date. And if you cook it, best to leave it a few more minutes in the pan just to be sure.

Ofcourse. Expired may not necessarily mean "spoiled". Those that just expired could still be worth eating in certain situations.
It probably wouldn't matter to someone starving to death with no good food to eat if the risk of starvation outweighs the risk of the food poisoning.

The expiry date on products does not necessarily mean that on and after that particular day, the product is completely bad. Experts will tell you that the expiry date on products shows a time frame within which the product is unfit completely for use. So if something expires today, and you can't get another alternative immediately, the one in hand can still be used for a short time say 2 days.

i don't eat meat anyways  ::)

No i wont , thats why it has an expiring date , they are unrealistic in first place

Meats are expensive where I live so I do my best not to have to waste meats. 
Eating chicken a few days after expiring is something I would do but maybe for red meat 1 day at the very latest.