Best Before Dates

[RooMan]

I think Best Before dates are causing a lot of perfectly good food to be thrown out. I have eaten groceries after their best before date and I am still here. Would you buy a product past its best before date if it has been reduced in price?

[Catso]

Oh yes - bargains to be had! Never anything wrong with any such thing I've ever bought.

And I eat loads of stuff past its sell by date, as well

[WendyS]

Yesterday I opened a tub of Creme Fraiche from my fridge which is a month out of date. It was still in perfect condition.

We regularly use stuff which is date expired. If it looks or smells manky it gets tossed but most of the time it has proved perfectly OK to eat.

[jipsquithesq]

I have difficulty getting my girl to eat some things that are merely near the date never mind past it.
Although i am always delighted by her little ways.
:-)

[shaneystar2]

We never had" best before " and "use by" years ago ..we used our sense of taste and smell.If it smells alright and looks alright and tastes as it should do then I eat it !
I bet there is a huge amount of food wasted because of this ..does that yogurt literally "go off "at the stroke of midnight !!

[tictactoe]

It's like the date on a bottle of milk, they always put a "use by" that is a few days short of how long it will really keep - just another safeguard for the producers. As for freezing stuff "use within a month" - load of old twaddle!!

If in doubt - chuck out - if not - eat it, and enjoy!

[dan no1]

i'd probably buy tinned stuff cos that lasts years doesn't it? but even thought the food might be ok, it legally still needs a best before or use by date.

[curlyfilm]

british potatoes only have one crop in autumn, until the next spring crop is dug, so the spuds with a sell by date in the supermarkets are replaced by the same crop
most veg and salad, also fruit, has sell by dates but lasts for ages
tinned food lasts a lifetime

[beejaybee]

I personally would not, but I have to be very careful anyway as I have a medical condition. My mum ,who`s 86, eats stuff way past the sell by date, but she`s got the constituation of an ox.