I hate waste but....

I can hear you all! Yes, I was on smoothies all night, must have been all the sugar. It was the apple and kiwi one; the one the GKs call 'frog juice'. Think I'd better stick to tonight.
Chucks safely in, sun over horizon.

jodi not for the last few days. Actually it appears she wants to be called a rose?

Are smoothies always non-alcoholic? Maybe not nanado

I deny everything.

Why does jodi want to be called a rose?

Bum Bother almost forgot I'm babysitting tonight.

Not jodijingle!

I reckon it's the fruit acid.

What jingle?

I love sushi , think it perfectly safe to eat .

In fact had some about 20 mins . ago as an appetiser .

Yum, Yum .

Earlier, I found a Christmas pudding in the cupboard which was dated 'best before March 2010'

In the interests of science and support for the 'stop wasting food lobby' I've had some.......................it was delicious

Hope you cooked it first, Ella...

No, it's already cooked, I had it cold. It was like a moist Xmas cake!

Who's jodijingle jeni? I give up. Hope up I don't end up in A&E ella-

You are all daft
I dont know who mentioned the maggoty bacon but my MIL worked in the Coop before she was married and she said they had to scrape the maggots off before they could slice the bacon!!!

jingleaka JO7
Said she couldn't see why she couldn't b called a rose

A rose by any other name

That's how this all started, glass!

It seems to me that the reason we are all fairly relaxed about keeping food is that we are old enough to have encountered food that had gone off and we know what it looks like and smells like. I doubt if many of today's young wives have ever come across a rotten egg or a piece of gone off meat and they just rely on what the producers tell them. Oh those lovely, long hot summers, straining the little white lumps out of the milk in my tea - and it still tasted horrid!

Or we're the survivors possibly?

good point nanado

Oh, come on! How many people have died of food poisoning in the UK in the last 100 years?

I know some younger people who seem convinced that back in the dark ages (pre-useby-dates) we all suffered from food poisoning regularly.

I don't remember ever being made ill by food or lack of hygeine.

Fourteen years ago there was food poisoning outbreak in South Australia. A four year old child died and twenty three children were left seriously ill after eating contaminated mettwurst and salami. Ill enough for some to require organ transplants. Young children shouldn't eat any food a pregnant woman can't eat.