I ask as I’ve just eaten a nice bowl of Shreddies from a sealed packet that was discovered at the back of a cupboard last week. BBE marked as “04/2023”.
Taste and texture are as if I’d just picked them off a supermarket shelf last week.
What’s the furthest beyond BB date item you’ve consumed and how was it?
Shreddies have a taste? Who knew? 
With dry goods like that in a sealed and undamaged packet you’re pretty safe I would think.
I’ve had frozen food that was six months past its BB date; again if stored correctly it’s probably going to be edible for a very long time although it might have freezer burn.
Fresh stuff I would only go a day or two past the BB usually.
The like was just for the sheddies comment.
Sheds have very little flavour as well. Or so I am reliably informed 
But a lot more fibre 
Breakfast of Termites…
Very little. I use nose and common sense.
Currently on a pot of 2016 jam.
Dried products, such as loose tea and herbs do lose potency and flavour, which is the point of them, with age. Some dried things like rice, flour or even oats can magically become home for bugs, even when in air tight containers! Even peppercorns lose their buzz.
I can’t rely on sniff testing since I’m olfactory challenged but at least I still have eagle eyes.
Refrigerated anything is consumed by Use By date or thrown out after 3 days open. And anything already opened - 3 days/months depending on the label written in 6pt font. Things like honey manage months but not years.
Always makes me think of WWII or dystopian sci-fi films where the characters are overjoyed when they find old larders.
I note too that now things like toothpaste, SPF sun lotion and many beauty products also show Use By dates but the date is frequently only in the box, which gets thrown away.
I’ve just finished some very strong chilli powder I bought in India in 2002, loose in a screw top plastic jar. It got better with age 
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Quite a useful guide in this article
I have just had my bathroom cupboards decimated by my niece on a decluttering mission - creams, pastes and powders gone, along with old drugs and assorted goods. And what she has managed with my wardrobe is a joy to behold.
Marie Kondo generation!
I’ve just used some vanilla essence from a bottle labelled Best before September 1997. It was absolutely fine.
All I can say is lead me to your cupboard if you have an ancient packet of Shredded Wheat in there. If I ever see another one it will probably be at Christies. 
I can offer you an opened box of Weetabix with an expiry date of 30th Nov 2025 if that’s any good? Or would you like it matured in Chateau Pétrus’ cellars for a few more generations?
Alas, t’is now bare.
This packet had only gone unnoticed for so long as it had slipped off the Overspill Food Shelf and gone down the back of the Retired Food Processor Shelf where we keep the rubbish blenders that we forget about for half a decade before re-discovering them and how bad they are.
We are currently discussing the relocation of said rubbish blenders to the local Resourcerie.
Are you mad ??? That stuff turns to soup the moment a drop of liquid gets within a metre of it. It is awful, once, in desperation I took a biscuit in one hand and dipped the tip of it in a bowl of milk, and it still didn’t get any better. 
So no, thanks, but no thanks. 
I don’t eat it either, but my brother does, so we have some in stock for visits.
Will he finish it all before the end of November, or is he adventurous as well as having no taste buds? 
Doesnt matter, even bacteria wouldnt want it. Just industrial waste adapted to sell on to suckers.
Look at this product that I found on google.com Shreddies Flatulence Filtering Underwear
