"Nancy2" > wrote
>
> It depends on what your own system can handle. If you eat it and it
> makes you sick afterwards, you kept it too long. I can't eat hamburger
> after the 3rd day; hard boiled eggs the same; fried chicken the same.
> Proteins are the most touchy things, for me. It doesn't always smell
> or look bad when it is bad.
>

Four days, max, for stuff like meatloaf, and I tend to toss everything
on the third day.

Stuff like tuna salad? Two days.

For me it is not a matter of whether it is spoiled. I don't want to eat
food that is not fresh.