if you stockpile, be careful with this item. It made me sick and the misery lasted about 10 hours.

[KrispyKrittersUSA]

Food poisoning takes 24-48 hours to develop if you're talking digestive issues. It may have been something you ate the day before. Either way, I too have had food poisoning at the same time as my husband. Sadly at that time our apartment had only one bathroom... sorry for TMI!
Anyhoo, weird about the sudden weird taste too.

Just wanted to say, that food poisoning doesn't always take that long. After eating at a chinese buffet, within 1 hour, I was rushed in to the emergency room, and after being worked on for 5 hours, and $12k later, was able to be stabilized and released.

Sorry about your experience.

[MrsPinecone]

I really don't think even stale chex mix would make you sick - I've eaten stale chex mix before and unless it's so old it's turned colors, it really won't harm you - just won't taste good. Lots of people think it's food poisoning or something they eat - when they start to feel sick after eating something - but usually it's just a virus that they have that's hit them - and it happens to be close in time to them eating something so they make that association. Just a thought.

Agreed. I really don't think Chex Mix has anything that could cause food poisoning. Even rancid nuts won't hurt you, they just taste really bad.

And FWIW, yogurt takes a REALLY long time to go bad as long as it's not opened. I've eaten 6 month old yogurt before with no ill effects.

There is a horrid stomach virus going around. It lasts 12-24 hours, and the onset is rapid. It's much more likely that you picked that up somewhere.

[tinkinpink84]

If im iffy about the expiration i usually wont eat and it and toss it. Im paranoid about expiration dates! You can pick up viruses however from anywhere. At the store. kids bring em home from school etc. Even if the lil ones dont get sick they may have just carried the virus .

[heartse]

We eat lots of stuff after it's expiration date... within reason, and pretty much only when unopened. Yogurt does last a VERY long time.