Warning about Eating Food from the Fridge and Advice Needed

[rodriguezpoultry]

OK. I made spaghetti for Father's Day. I found it yesterday around 3 PM. I saw no mold and it smelled GREAT. I ate it. I asked in the chatroom after thinking about how long it had been in the fridge. Some tried to calm my fears, others KNEW what would happen.

I am DYING. I know it! My stomach is churning and I can't leave the bathroom for more than 15 minutes at a time. I was supposed to work tomorrow but that would NOT work out well at all seeing as how...well, nevermind.

Does ANYONE have a way to get rid of this nasty feeling? Does it just have to "pass"? I've tried Pepto but seeing as how it's 3:50AM and I'm here typing, you can guess how well that went over.

(Moral of the story? Don't eat food in the fridge that you cooked over 2 weeks ago.)

 

[okiron]

Are you sure it's not just your fears making you sick? You can easily think yourself sick.

 

[saddina]

Assumming it's comming out of "tails" and not "heads"....

Drink something, water, iced tea whatever, idea is to flush it out of your system.

Please promise me anything more than say 3 days old you'll toss next time, ok?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Would you believe I had forgotten about it completely until I woke up and had to run to the bathroom? I can usually eat things that have been in the fridge for 5 days or more, and this looked REALLY good and tasted pretty good too.

I thought putting it in the microwave for 5 minutes would kill anything bad.

College student just got schooled.

saddina, is 3 days the general rule? (Why is this not common knowledge! It should be innate by now or something!)

 

[saddina]

3 Days is what they allow on food that have been prepaired, then refrigerated, bacteria still grow at the 38-40 degrees of home refridgerators, just slowly, but 2 weeks? that's like leaving it on the counter overnight and eating it for breakfast.

Food poisioning is usually a 24 hour thing, some can last 2 days, and for goodness sake, if you ever see a buldging can or improperly sealed jar, toss it, that kind of food poisioning is fatal.

I'm gonna guess your mum just tossed food without explaining why.

(side note, my chickens live extra rice/noodles, so they get them as treats, better if you don't sauce untill on the plate for that)

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Well, I'm not really sure when she threw stuff out. It would kind of accumulate and she'd clean out the whole fridge (throwing everything but drinks, canned items and eggs out). I just never connected it.

Yes, the bulging can thing...not so good. I had seen it once and almost opened it because I thought it had been mistreated in shipment, but decided it was for the best to just leave it since I saw no dents.

Now this eating from the counter, is that for spaghetti, or are we including pizza in that spectrum too? (I have TOTALLY done the pizza on the counter thing, and again, been fine! LOL!)

 

[okiron]

Quote:
Would you believe I had forgotten about it completely until I woke up and had to run to the bathroom? I can usually eat things that have been in the fridge for 5 days or more, and this looked REALLY good and tasted pretty good too.

I thought putting it in the microwave for 5 minutes would kill anything bad.

College student just got schooled.

saddina, is 3 days the general rule? (Why is this not common knowledge! It should be innate by now or something!)

Ooo ok, sorry then. I thought you meant you got sick after thinking about it.

Yeah, it's already been said but drink a lot and flush it out. Hope you feel better.

 

[keesmom]

Ginger ale and saltines are good for the tummy. Try bananas, applesauce or plain rice to help settle everything else.

I toss anything out of the fridge that's over 4 days old. The birds love that rule.

-Cindy in MA

 

[hollymh]

3 day rule here, but you will be happy to know that our commisary is feeding and selling us frozen food that expired in JAN-DEC. 2007, yes folks the military store thinks so highly of us they sell us 2 yr old food!!! So anyways this happened to my husband and I about 6 months ago, I bought it brought home, cooked it, started feeling really sick looked at the date and it was 2 years old, I was so beyond angry!!! We just let it pass, which it sounds like you are going to have to do the same, best of luck and no more food past 3 days!!!

P.s. ALWAYS check the exp. dates before you cook, I learned that real fast after our last escapade!

 

[gumpsgirl]

Have you tried a taking a tablespoon or so of apple cider vinegar? That usually straightens everyone up here.