Expired box of stove top stuffing?

[brittsmum1998]

Title says it all. It is dated June 2010 and I'd like to avoid going to the grocery store today. Do you think its still good?

thanks,

Kim

 

[LindaBabe]

yes. IT would likely still be good a year from now.

There's a lot of confusion even among manufacturers about "use by date" "sell by date" "best by date".

 

[Lisa]

Doubt I would question it at a year old! Ten years maybe but not under a year.

 

[MazdaUK]

It'll be fine. If tis "best before", it just might have lost a bit of flavour/texture, but its only a couple of weeks over! The only thing I'm really strict about is "use by" on meat/fish/dairy. For evertything else manufacturers give themselves plenty of leeway Its only the past 20-30 years there's been dates on things like salt, sugar and tinned goods! my MIL until recently was using up sugar she'd bought in the 1970s when there was a shortage