Just today (August 22) I made shepards pie using ground beef and adding ground pork. The ground pork had been sitting in the fridge for a week so I opened it to smell if it had gone bad, it didn't smell foul at all. I cooked the meat in a frying pan and then also transferred it to the oven for extra cooking and so the potatoes on the top would set and be stiff. The meat was cooked at a temperature that would kill any bacteria so I wasn't to concerned. Of course after we had all eaten, I noticed that the package in the garbage that had contained the ground pork said " best before August 13th, and well you do the math, it's well past that today. Now I'm really nervous that I've fed my family something potentially dangerous and feel so awful at the moment, not sick..just guilty and stupid. Nothing I can do about it now, however, I wondered if anyone has eaten ground pork or any sort of meat after it's "best before" date and lived to tell about it.

Thanks Kim