if it's food that needs to be cooked, just 24 hours no matter what it is

for edible uncooked food, if it's a few days then I'll just do a smell/taste test, unless it's obviously bad by sight.

Bread


Maybe some LSD fungus will form on one of these expired loafs.

I don't eat products that are expired, I've had bad memories with eating snacks, them tasting weird, and then finding out they've been expired for years!! Gross!! So, I don't eat expired food.

Sure, if it seems fine.

I know someone who won't eat a steak until it's a couple of days past the sell-by date.

But why? I don't understand why he/she would do that!

As long as it doesn't taste too stale I almost would eat any expired food. For the most part I would pass on expired beer though. Also expired soda that lost most of its carbonation is pretty gross. If it comes in a plastic bottle its pretty easy to tell if a soda is too expired though since once it looses a lot of its carbonation the bottle gives in easily. With cans its a lot harder to tell. I once drunk pretty expired Pepsi Blue from a can and it was still pretty good.

Well, eggs are fine in Norway literally months after their expiration date (we don't have salmonella in Norway, but we still have to follow EU guidelines, so even though eggs are fine to eat, they have to be markes as expired really early). So I'm fine eating eggs even if they expired a month ago lol. If meat is stored in a fridge, it doesn't really matter, as long as it's only defrosted once, but I'm not sure if that would count?

That sounds pretty gross.  But on the other hand if you buy meat that is close to its expiration date you usually can get it with a pretty good discount its only worth it if use it or freeze it right away though. 

Supposedly it's more tender as the tissue begins breaking down.  Sell-by date doesn't usually mean much, anyway, as retailers care more about how foods look.  

With shelled eggs its pretty easy to tell if they are still edible or not all you have to do is do the float test.