I will swim against the tide and tell you that I totally dump it when it reaches the sell by date. I am not a big fan of milk anyway, and the thought of accidentally getting icky milk makes me insane. I am also one of those "milk always smells sour" people, so sniffing it doesn't help. Yeah, I know it's rather nutty.

GC is me in this.

New kitty! Doggie! Pretty girl!

Oh, my Marley is such a love! I am crazy about him. (I'm hanging out in the spare room with him right now, he's lying down all comfy right by me)

I feel bad about being away all day tomorrow and leaving Marley alone in the room.

Milk Date Controversy

I will swim against the tide and tell you that I totally dump it when it reaches the sell by date.

I expected way more people to be automatic dumpers, to tell you the truth. All y'all are skewing much differently than my RL sample.

I'm having a slow day. I successfully cleaned my apartment, but it took me about 4.5 hours. Now I'm on my bed, trying to convince myself to eat something and grade papers.

I'll do it. I'm not avoiding. I'm just... slow.

One thing that I heard (though I don't remember where) is that milk smells and tastes bad before it will actually make you sick, which made me completely comfortable to be a sniffer.

I'll give it a few days after the sell-by date. I'm a sniffer. Unless it's butter milk. I can never tell so I just dump that on the sell-by date.

I tend to only go a couple days after the sell-by date, because milk ALWAYS smells bad to me, so I don't trust. If it's more than like, two days after, I tend to just assume it's bad. Because I can't TELL, otherwise, and I'd rather be out money than be wrong.

The only thing I really tend to assume is good long past the "sell by" date is eggs. ....reading up on that, apparently I should look at the "pack date" rather than the "sell by" date, and get an accurate answer that way. But I normally don't crack them straight into whatever I'm making, so I figure I can tell if they're bad.

The way to tell if eggs are bad before cracking them is to put one into a glass of water. If it sinks to the bottom it's good, and if it floats at the top it's rotten.

Rotten, or just not real fresh fresh? A rotten egg is a pretty dramatic thing.

In broker times I've eaten many a hard-boiled floaty egg and never had a problem.

I usually sniff milk first anyway. With the kids around it's not like we've had a lot of opportunity for it to go bad, or even meet it's date. Well okay, sometimes the buttermilk gets a bit long in the tooth.