Sell by dates


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Just had a clean out of the food cupboard:

2 x jars of curry paste (opened)
1 x set of lasagne verdi pasta sheets (a few left in box)
1 x chocolate bar
1 x packet of raisins
All had to go the journey.

Go and have a look, there's bound to be summit that's off.
 
Just had a clean out of the food cupboard:

2 x jars of curry paste (opened)
1 x set of lasagne verdi pasta sheets (a few left in box)
1 x chocolate bar
1 x packet of raisins
All had to go the journey.

Go and have a look, there's bound to be summit that's off.

I take no notice on sell by dates. I look and smell the food and if it passes both those tests I use it.
 
Just had a clean out of the food cupboard:

2 x jars of curry paste (opened)
1 x set of lasagne verdi pasta sheets (a few left in box)
1 x chocolate bar
1 x packet of raisins
All had to go the journey.

Go and have a look, there's bound to be summit that's off.

The pasta and chocolate would have been alright.
 
Theres a tin of potatoes in my cupboard that I bought by mistake when sent to get something else.

It's about four years out of date but kept there as a monument to my stupidity.
 
Sell by dates are only indicators required by law. Doesn't mean the stuff will go bad after that date.
 
i heard on the radio that the uk goverment is planning on removing all best before dates on food.

is this true?

its to prevent good food from being threw out, they also said the average british household throw out over £700 of good food a year due to inaccurate BBD's:eek:
 
i heard on the radio that the uk goverment is planning on removing all best before dates on food.

is this true?

its to prevent good food from being threw out, they also said the average british household throw out over £700 of good food a year due to inaccurate BBD's:eek:

Had heard something along those lines. About time anarl. Didn't used to have them so why do we need them now? Especially with fresh food, you can see when it has to be thrown out.
 
Tinned food can survive a nuclear strike man.

EDIT : I should know, I watched Threads this morning.

Watched this recently for the first time. Chilling bit of TV that can be found in full on google videos, would encourage anyone who hasn't seen it to give it a go.

On topic, Didn't some one recently eat tinned chicken from WW2 that was fine? If I didn't imagine that it says it all really.
 
Watched this recently for the first time. Chilling bit of TV that can be found in full on google videos, would encourage anyone who hasn't seen it to give it a go.

On topic, Didn't some one recently eat tinned chicken from WW2 that was fine? If I didn't imagine that it says it all really.

Thats where I saw it. First time I had watched it since it was on originally. Very scary.

The only use by date I take notice of is yeast and then I still use it up to a year after.
 
i remember when my Grandad died 2003 and was helping parents clear his house up and we found food with dates of 1989:eek:
 
I have loads of out of date stuff; herbs and spices, poppy seeds (1999), pudding rice various dates (2002/2006). As stated, if it looks and smells OK it probably will be. Meat is the only thing I am a bit careful with.

There was a yoghourt in the fridge at work on Friday afternoon it said 5/11. Thought it must mean May 2011. Then looked at it more closely it was 5/11/10. It was fine. Don't know why it hadn't gone off? Preservatives?
 
Honey never goes off, but by law it has to have a best before date on the jar.

There was a yoghourt in the fridge at work on Friday afternoon it said 5/11. Thought it must mean May 2011. Then looked at it more closely it was 5/11/10. It was fine. Don't know why it hadn't gone off? Preservatives?

Hasn't yoghurt technically "gone off" as soon as it's made?
 
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