I'm sure I googled something like that the last time we had this thread and the answer is if stuff is frozen too long the quality is like to deteriorate, but it's not going to be any less safe to eat (as long as it's stayed frozen all that time and not defrosted/refrozen)

 

I'm with the look/smell brigade really - that's how you'd tell with stuff from the deli or the butcher after all that doesn't come prepacked (and as for hard cheese.. having worked in a deli many moons ago -,if it moulds on the outside slice it off and it's perfectly ok underneath.  That's what they do in the shops - I've also oiled a Polish sausage in my time, but that's another story....  

I've often thought the food should still be ok, I bought some fresh pizzas and then forgot I had them in the freezer and when I found them they had past the month deadline so threw them but then thought what could be wrong with them I am a bit more dubious of fresh pies that have been frozen

I threw out a five year old Findus Lasagne, found in the freezer, but otherwise if it smells rancid, I chuck it, if it smells and looks a bit dodgy, I cook it a bit longer than usual.

 

Snap. I'm squeamish about food nearing its sell by date. Only cheese gets leeway. Might even cut the mouldy bit off and use the rest for cooking. If its mature cheddar, I figure well ...its just more mature now.

Me too ..........Hiya Bliz

Sooz. 

 

I've had food poisoning once, a Chinese take-away left out on a boiling hot day and then reheated .

Really stupid and I won't do that again, but I'm shocked at the vast amount of perfectly edible food thrown out in our country. Mr Blizz buys anything reduced and sometimes he even gets paid for taking it home, if there is a BOGOF deal on it (the tills don't seem to take into account that the items have been reduced)! 

I've only had food poisoning (from home) once - it was many, many years ago - I was very young. The mince looked a bit iffy (from the butcher before sell by dates) I went ahead and cooked it anyway. Made beefburgers and . Once bitten twice shy - if I'm not eating mince on the day of purchase I freeze it.

 

I had food poisoning from a cream cake once  from a real high class bakery in Harrow on the Hill.

 Mind you even posh places can't be trusted.

08 Mar 2013:

World's best restaurant Noma gives 70 customers food poisoning

At the restaurant voted the world's best three years in a row, where the cheapest option is the £174 set menu, customers would be forgiven for thinking that their food would not only be perfectly prepared but safe to eat. Not so at globally-renowned Danish restaurant Noma, where 67 of the 78 guests who dined there between Feb 12 and 16 fell ill with food poisoning.

I'm not surprised at that ^ Rog - I've seen that place on Masterchef and the show about Claridges - any place that gives you a plate of grass and some live ants and calls it dinner is a 'no' in my book.

My sister, her husband and a friend all got food poisoning from eating oysters in a famous Frenchman's restaurant in Oxford.

 

Luckily oysters are on my (very short) list of foods that I won't eat ... I can't remember what I had instead, but it turned out to be a very good choice!!

At the risk of repeating myself, one shouldn't eat fowl or sea filth, for they are at the high risk end of the risky food options. I well remember an incident at a well known seaside restaurant. I went for the goats cheese and pine nut option. Our unsuspecting friends went for the salmon and dill, and bivalve ish paella. What were they expecting? We were kept awake by their bathroom sounds. As Monty Python would have it, "Opens the sluices at both ends!"

(When in Oxford we eat at a Greek restaurant not so far off Jericho. The actors from Lewis regularly eat there, so we feel reasonably safe.)

Ohhh, I haven't been there, I shall have to try it