Yogurt Sell By Date

[swrc00]

How many days after the sell by date would you eat yogurt?

[srhs]

I did so ONE day after the SELL BY date last year and woke up the next day nauseas and sick. It was the only suspicious thing I could put my finger on and passed with a lot of sleep and PeptoBismol.

[TwinFoxes]

If it doesn't taste or smell funny I eat it. I think I ate some 1 week past the sell by date. I was fine. (and despite the old joke, you can definitely tell if yogurt's gone bad by the taste, it tastes curdled.)

[randomkid]

Only a couple of days, but I have to explain my reason. I went to a very small town in Michigan in mid-February this year (that's 2009 BTW) for my FIL's memorial service. We went to the local grocery store and I bought some yogurt. The day we were going to the airport to leave and come home, I grabbed the last cup of yogurt and started eating it in the car. It tasted fine, but it looked kind of, well...stringy and it was unusually thick. I thought something didn't seem right, so I looked at the expiration date. Are you ready? December 2008! OMG - I was freaking out! I only ate a few spoons of it and I survived, but I just CANNOT eat yogurt past it's expiration date now. I'm interested to see other's replies on this because I now feel like a big wimp when it comes to expired yogurt!

[Happy 2B mommy]

Up to a week.

[kransden]

If the top isn't puffed and it doesn't taste funny. After all it is just spoiled milk.

[tylersmama]

At least a few, assuming it looked, smelled, and tasted ok. I frequently drink Stoneyfield Farms yogurt smoothies for breakfast and have more than once finished one off, only to notice that they're past their expiration. Never had any health problems as a result!

[pharmjenn]

My DH and I have frequently eaten yogurt a good month or more past the date. Never gotten sick. Maybe we just have iron stomachs?

[egoldber]

If the top isn't puffed and it doesn't taste funny. After all it is just spoiled milk.

If it's a sealed, unopen yogurt I've eaten it weeks and even occasionally months past the expiration. Once it's opened, I am more cautious, but I use them as long as nothing is growing on it and it smells OK.

[Wife_and_mommy]

I have a mental block about expiration dates so usually won't eat it past the exp. date. If it looks/smells okay, I'll feed it to the kids, though. Is that wrong?

With eggs, I don't mind a week or two but milk products? Can't do it.