Cottage cheese - how to tell if it's bad

[Rainydayz 27]

I found a tub of low fat cottage cheese in the bottom of my fridge. The exp. date is illegible but I think the year is 2010. It was at the bottom where things tend to freeze if not moved around a lot. I opened it and there is no smell and I tasted it and it tastes like cottage cheese. So, will it kill me to eat it?

[Rootman 1,101]

NO, throw it out! The expiration date is on it for a reason and it's long since expired if it says 2010.

[Rainydayz 27]

Hmmm. Yeah, probably better safe than sorry. It's weird that it didn't smell bad tho.

[kellyw74 258]

UMM, i agree. don't ever eat things past expiration. bad idea.

kelly

[Cmsumom 5]

LOL- to me it's already expired milk thats curded up- but I really wouldn't eat it if it expired that long ago.

[mandems mom 3]

Like others have said, it seems very odd that it doesn't have a bad smell. I know when I've had REALLY expired cottage cheese in my fridge that I forgot was in there, it ends up having a yellowish liquid on the top and a really nasty smell. Are you sure it says 2010???

[Rainydayz 27]

Like others have said, it seems very odd that it doesn't have a bad smell. I know when I've had REALLY expired cottage cheese in my fridge that I forgot was in there, it ends up having a yellowish liquid on the top and a really nasty smell. Are you sure it says 2010???

No, the date was pretty much obscured. That's what it looked like anyway. But I tossed it. No sense in risking a very bad day over a $1.50 tub of cottage cheese!