As another said, Chicken needs to be treated with caution.
I had to bin chicken a few days IN use by date.
Red meat, particularly steak is pretty hardy.
Bacons a dead give away as it develops a nasty sheen (& smell) when its gone.
Hummus can go well over, just watch out for mold!
Often have cheese in fridge, months over.
Apparantly the sneaky one is rice, already cooked, it'll feck you up.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

When cheese goes hard it can play havoc with your false teeth and milk gone off is as stinky as s***e and upsets the meals on whewls lady, they sell at discount nearer the sell by date so it doesn't eat into your pension which is a bonus for all the plainly geriatric eagles here

Eggs. If they float in water bin em. Otherwise they're probably fine. The date stamp is usually cobblers.

Any recommendations for really strong hard cheese(not Terry Thomas).

You're asking me what it's all about, and I can't tell you because I don't know what's going on myself.

spent last night reacquainting myself to the pleasures of Roquefort. Probably best at room temperature, it's a reasonably strong blue cheese. The one I'm eating, I've only had a week, but is already out-of-date. It's absolutely divine, and I'm thinking this might be the reason I pile on the weight over Christmas.

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (26 Nov 2022 1.37am)

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

look at 'Neils yard' website.
nice choices on there.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.