Everything is good as long as it's good and expiration dates are arbitrary and mostly do not reflect the truth. You will notice if something is bad, it will have a bad taste, color, mold or a slimy texture.

Many products are good to eat weeks, months or even years after the expiration date, you just need to be careful and use your senses. On the other hand, food can also go bad way before the expiration date is reached.

There is a large difference before "use by" and "best before" dates on foods, a lot of people don't realize that.

Something which is marked as best before might change slightly by that date (sometimes to peoples liking) they're still perfectly fine to eat beyond that date though until you can use your own head to figure out that it is no longer good to eat.

I look at the dates as a guideline, if something is dated perfectly for a week... but it has been stored badly in either the storeroom, shop or your home then it could equally be bad, you should use your head and eyes to know what's good to eat, that's how we've been going for 12000 years.

I use pain relief medication (like Ibuprofen) even is it's a month pay expiration.

Aside from that, I get iffy about stuff even when the expiration date is close but not past. I have a bad experience with milk that managed to get chunky in the fridge.

Nothing really. Stuff starts tasting bad after the expiration date anyway.


On a side note: I was cleaning a kitchen for an elderly man a few weeks back and found tons of WAYYY out of date stuff. Starting from 2011, then 2005, 1999, 1995, 1993, 1988, 1983, 1981, and finally... muffin mix that expired... in 1969 XD

I wonder if muffin mix from 1969 would be worth anything? A quick google seach said "no". But I'm not convinced. A guy just tried to buy a pair of UFC shorts that the fighter took a shit in durning the fight. For $15000. All kinds of weirdos out there.

Usually those dates are ass-covers, rather than true expirations.
It's usually fucking obvious when broccoli or guacamole or anything has gone bad, and sometimes it is long after the expiration date, other times not so long; it depends on storage and quality.

And it's not like it will kill you if you accidentally eat something expired. If you are eating processed food from US/China (transfats, corn sugars, preservatives, MSG, and other mildly toxic flavour additives), you are doing FAR more damage to your body; and it is why populations that have those foods have much higher and younger rates of heart disease, brain degradation/dementia, and cancer.

At worse, a bit of rotten food will make you shit hard. But probably no effect.

I even buy stuff from a shop which sells expired best before food if I'm visiting the town where its located. I tend to keep to the stuff that is just a month out of date. I buy the cheap reduced food in supermarkets and quickly freeze it so I can use it when I want, items like bread, sausages etc. A penny saved is a penny earnt.

I bought a pack of sushi on the day of its use by date and was violently sick but I'm not sure if that was bacteria related or just an allergic reaction to uncooked fish. It was vile and I doubt I'll ever eat sushi again in my life.