I'm hungry but I haven't done any shopping. I've just found a packet of meat snacks that are four years over their sell by date. It's very cold outside and I don't want to go out for fresh ones. Should I eat them, or pay my elderly neighbour to go shopping for me?
2006-12-22 02:40:39 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Open then and smell them - that is likely to put you off your food - meaning you don't have to do either!!
2006-12-22 02:42:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Even better, offer one of the snacks to your elderly neighbour, (who has probably got a weak heart, not in the best of health and has no living relatives) wait a couple of hours and if he/she has not called for an ambulance the snacks are safe to eat. Also it's a win/win situation, the old one has got an early xmas present from a caring neighbour and you've saved a trip to the shops/hospital!
2006-12-22 03:04:56 · answer #2 · answered by soapy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save them and take them on that programme with David Dickinson, he should be able to value them for you.
I found a packet of cream crackers in a cupboard at my dad's that were from 1972 - at the time around 12 years out of date. They must have survived through 3 house moves!
2006-12-22 02:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by nettyone2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aaah....see.....thinking outside the box here!!
SWAP it with your elderley neighbour for something tasty.....tell them its a christmas gift for them. Being old, they'll have loads biscuits about. Give them the meat snack, tell them its "continental" dried meat and you have a pack of custard creams. Casually drop in that the custard creams will go really well with a cup of tea, but, alas, you have no teabags left.....and they'l make you a brew too!!
If you phone them and tell them you have hurt your leg and want to deliver the presents, but cant make it there because of the pain, they will even come round to your house, thus ensuring:
1. you will be fed
2. your food will be safe
3. you get a cuppa as an added bonus
4. you dont have to leave the house
5. you wont have spent a penny
2006-12-22 02:51:34 · answer #4 · answered by godlykepower 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take your rancid meat snacks out for a walk to the grocery store and buy some real food!!!! Just think how cold it'll still be if you eat them and have to go in the ambulance to the hospital to have your stomach pumped!
2006-12-22 02:44:57 · answer #5 · answered by samthecatrocks 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just by asking the Q might give you an Idea to the answer. Any thing that I question or have to smell to figure out if it's good is trashed, the consequences out-weigh the wonderment
2006-12-22 02:44:15 · answer #6 · answered by Steve G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like your elderly neighbor is alone at their place. Go over and share the snack with them. Then you can socialize together and be merry.
2006-12-22 03:23:53 · answer #7 · answered by katherinernilson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why pay your elderly neighbour, don't you have any dirt on them? Blackmail is a wonderful way to save and make cash.
2006-12-22 02:44:31 · answer #8 · answered by ♣ My Brainhurts ♣ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suggest that you make a lovely quiche lorraine. Simply add the meat into the mixture, serve at room temparature witha lightly tossed salad, then THROW THE WHOLE THING AWAY YOU DORK!! AND THEN STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!!
2006-12-22 03:25:10 · answer #9 · answered by Chimera's Song 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Offer to give the elderly neighbour them plus a fiver and i think you,ll have a job done
2006-12-22 02:43:40 · answer #10 · answered by Nellynoo 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pay the neighbour. She's probably struggling on her pension and could do with some xmas cash.
2006-12-22 02:44:03 · answer #11 · answered by mcfifi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋