Best Before

[Maydup]

I got to the back of the food cupboard this morning, as you do on a Bank holiday Monday, and found instant custand, instant semolina and a crumble mix. They are all best before April 2016.

Any reason why we can't use them for apple crumble and custard tonight?

[Messalina]

They'll be fine but you made need to bash the packets a bit as they may have solidified.

[Old_Geezer]

They are only "best before", not "eat by". They don't go off overnight of the end of the period.

[Jackdaw33]

I would leave out the semolina.

[cupid04]

Donate it to the harvest festival. It's nearly that time...

[dominie]

As a biologist, I ignore these dates and use common sense depending on the foodstuff

[diddlydo]

They'll all be perfectly fine.

[Maydup]

Yes but it is 4 months OG! Nevertheless I will do as Kacjdaw suggests and use the crumble and custard ,and dump the semolina.

[diddlydo]

For goodness sake, there's nothing in any of those things that's going to be "off" a few months after the "best before" date.

[Jackdaw33]

I didn't mean dump the semolina, I just meant don't use it in an apple crumble!

[Maydup]

In the end I was too tired after a long day in the garden, to make the crumble. Instead we ate the semolina with banana and peaches, it was delicious. we'll have crumble and custard late in the week.

[Old_Geezer]

I know someone will say it is a different situation but, Sunday I ate a tinned rice pudding that was 3 years out of date. It was fine.

[Maydup]

Yumm!