Is it ok to drink milk after the sell-by date?

Yeah. That seems like the best thing to do. Taste more than smell. Sometimes it may smell bad when you smell it because of the container but the milk itself is fine.

@lovebuglena they can because it’s pastries so there are not sure when it’ll actually be bad by. Typically anyways humans where not designed to drink cows milk. My kids do and it goes quick so I don’t worry about the date to much. I do pick one up and get the date as far back as I can that way if e kids don’t use it all right away it’s good longer.

I wish they would put an actual expiration date on dairy products rather than the sell-by date. But then again dates don't guarantee the products will stay good by those dates.

I always pay attention to the sell-by date. This time I thought it said May 13th and just realized it says May 3rd. I guess the sell-by date doesn't mean anything as it can go bad before the date as well.

Mainly we use milk for coffee and add it to eggs when we make an omelet. It doesn't go quick if we do just that. If I eat cereal for many days or drink milk with cookies then it will go faster.

@lovebuglena My house exactly.

@lovebuglena Drank milk past the sell by date but only a few days

Done what?

@RebeccasFarm It is still good why not?

A sell-by date is not an expiration date. The milk just has a sell-by date, which is the date the store should sell the milk by. There is no expiration date written on it.

I wonder what happened. I am assuming you got your money back. That's great!

@lovebuglena We don't know and yes, we got our money back. We've switched to almond milk instead of cow's milk. It keeps longer and works fine for everything we used cow's milk for.

@DaddyEvil Usually I have no issues with cow's milk. It is usually pretty good for about a week after we open it.

@lovebuglenaYou should smell it before tasting, you can feel from the smell if it turns acidic.

@LadyDuck There where times when I smelled the bottle and it smelled sourish but then I tried the milk and it was fine.

I do not like when milk tastes acidic.

If I don't open a carton of milk by the sell-by date I can open it afterward and it will be good for a week?

@porwest Definitely. It will probably smell like the sewer.

@lovebuglena So long as you not too far past the sell by date. If you open it a year after the sell by date, it will still be spoiled milk immediately. lol

I guess it's good just to be safe. But you can taste it and if tastes fine no reason to throw it out.

@ladyhero Flavor of milk?

@lovebuglena Yes, it is true, what flavor do you like?