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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your husband is right, and you are a bit nutty (food forum pun!). As the PP showed, food is good until it is not. It will pretty much present as bad when it is bad (looks or smells off). The dates are there to protect the company (i.e. reminds the store/consumers) when to throw stuff out. But there are no "rules" about when stuff will make you sick. There are too many variables -- fridge temp, how contaminated things are after you open (did you use a clean spoon to scoop stuff?), etc. You asked a question about taking stuff from freezer, but then gave an example of bacon... so that is 2 very different things. Bacon is salt cured so will last a much longer time than an uncured meat. Basically, you can pretty much ignore the dates, and go by your senses. [/quote] My bacon example was for bacon that I've stored in the freezer. Anyway, good to know that it's more about how it looks/smells than an arbitrary date. [/quote]
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