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Originally Posted by Vlad_Dracul
<snip>Of course before the era of "use buy" dates people shopped,cooked and got by very well. If i have stuff in my fridge thats passed its use by date i certainly dont bin it. 99% of the time its perfectly edible up to a week past that date.<snip>
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I'd be very surprised if chilled food was still edible
and safe after an additional week - as homealone said, the reason that chilled foods have use by dates on them is because of the microbiological risk. The temperatures that the average home fridge operate at aren't enough to completely stop microbiological growth so every time you eat a product like that, you're actually putting your health at risk...