Think I should throw them away?

The birds in our garden are extremely well fed!

eat them .if not sure the birds will eat them....

OK annep!

I didn't know that Callistemon. Goodness. I wonder what else I don't know.
Please don't tell me what BiL told you ?.

Eat them.

annep1 I just remember what BIL told me once!

And the freshly baked supermarket loaf could be from frozen dough which is weeks old.

I can report I ate one of the mince pies last night - it tasted fine and I have had no ill effects!

I hope you never buy frozen fish etc annep1!!

I'm not going to ask why Callistemon. Might not like the answer.

Eat the mince pies!

This thread reminds me that when friends came round a couple of months ago, someone asked for a Martini Rosso, DH found a bottle in our drinks cupboard unopened and poured a glass, friend sipped and said it was lovely, DH went to put bottle back in cupboard and saw a price tag on the bottle, saying ‘Sainsbury £1.89’! We checked, it now costs around £10! At least it wasn’t pre-decimal! And btw friend is fine!

Eat them. Even if they have "gone off" I don't think there is anything than can make you ill. It's not meat or fish. Anything with a large sugar content is fine, the sugar acts as a preservative, like salt. I've very often eaten cakes and puddings, bacon or gammon past it's sell by date with no ill effect, unless of course I have caste iron guts?

I hope you never buy frozen fish etc annep1!!

I wish I was like you lot but no, I feel sick at the thought. Three year old food ..noooo!

Oh of course eat them they will be fine
When it comes to shop bought I take absolutely no notice of dates if they smell ok and texture looks ok they re good to go in my tum Why waste food ?

try and if they taste OK -eat.....and enjoy!

Yes I eat any food in the house whatever the date. Eggs that are out of date are used for making cakes. Just in case.

I bought Christmas cakes after Christmas last year and have just started eating one this week. Think mince pies will be fine to eat ?

*38nanasam

I found 2 Christmas puddings at the back of a cupboard with BB date April 2019! We opened one and tried it the other night and it was lovely, and we lived to tell the tale. We'll be keeping the other one for Christmas this year!*

We've eaten one this year with a best before 2016.

I found bread only kept for a few weeks in the freezer, so now I made a double batch of dough, bake half and freeze the other half when the dough has proved.

Eat them. I eat everything out of date, even eggs weeks after use by date. Still here.

Didn’t they unearth some food in the Antarctic that was left over from Scott’s polar expedition.many many years after that happened?
It was still edible I believe.

Of course eat them.

Throw! The birds will eat them.

The only risk I see is that you might throw away perfectly good mince pies for not tasting them. Try one and then decide. You aren't going to get food poisoning.

ps and we will probably eat them if they look and smell OK.