Supermarket Sell by dates

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Why is it every week within 2 days I'm having to throw out food, today we binned Scones, muffins, bread & crumpets despite only buying them 2 days ago & this isn't a one off, its every time within a few days of doing a large shop.

Why should we be expected to check every sell by date while rushing around the supermarket as we have to work almost every hour gods sends these days.

These supermarkets are making Millions & have a high turn over yet sell food that goes out of date within a few days.

Yet we are being told we waist food:mad:
 
Get products from the back of the shelf? if u buy stuff in date anyway, yet complaining its out of date within a few days it's ** own fault for not checking the actual date. it's not like you brought an out of date product is it?
 
UFX said:
Why is it every week within 2 days I'm having to throw out food, today we binned Scones, muffins, bread & crumpets despite only buying them 2 days ago & this isn't a one off, its every time within a few days of doing a large shop.

Why should we be expected to check every sell by date while rushing around the supermarket as we have to work almost every hour gods sends these days.

These supermarkets are making Millions & have a high turn over yet sell food that goes out of date within a few days.

Yet we are being told we waist food:mad:
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Totally agree. It's there jobs to make sure to the best of there knowledge the food sold is within sell by dates. The amount of fruit we buy from sainsburys that is bad when you open it is becoming are regular problem.

Same with bread has well. Although to be fair I do expect to throw away abit more food than normal in the summer months has they tend not to last very long for the obvious reasons although with all the rain it's not been much of an issue.
 
UFX said:
Why is it every week within 2 days I'm having to throw out food, today we binned Scones, muffins, bread & crumpets despite only buying them 2 days ago
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Sorry but unless you have a really large family, why would you even be buying all those things in one go (as in theyre very similar items) you're bound to not be able to eat them all in one go.

Also most of those things can also be frozen and then defrosted as and when you need them.
 
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Eat the stuff, supermarkets have to play it safe. Most foods will be fine at least days if not weeks past there sell by/use by dates.
Just use some common sense. If bread is mouldy throw it, if it's not eat it. I can't say I've ever checked the use by dates on bread or milk.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Eat the stuff, supermarkets have to play it safe. Most foods will be fine at least days if not weeks past there sell by/use by dates.
Just use some common sense. If bread is mouldy throw it, if it's not eat it. I can't say I've ever checked the use by dates on bread or milk.
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even moldy bread is fine toasted (hey, i don't earn much, i eat what i can :D)
 
knip said:
Sorry but unless you have a really large family, why would you even be buying all those things in one go (as in theyre very similar items) you're bound to not be able to eat them all in one go.

Also most of those things can also be frozen and then defrosted as and when you need them.
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Yep, we just put any food we know we wont eat straight away in the freezer, we have bread which may be 2 weeks - a month out of date, but due to being frozen it doesn't matter.
 
FFS! If you're that worried about it then just check the dates yourself, it isn't that difficult a concept to understand.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Eat the stuff, supermarkets have to play it safe. Most foods will be fine at least days if not weeks past there sell by/use by dates.
Just use some common sense. If bread is mouldy throw it, if it's not eat it. I can't say I've ever checked the use by dates on bread or milk.
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even mouldy bread is fine to eat long as you knock mould off. Not that I would eat it but you can if your desperate for that slice of toast :p
 
Places like Tesco are open 24/7 (well the extra's are anyawy), so on the way home pop in and buy stuff. Doing that every other day dosent take any more time than one big shop and stuff should always be okay. That's what I do.
 
check out the documentary on ch4 on demand called "dispatch: truth about food prices" - a lot of the food is still edible a few days after sell by date. Also if you can try to organise several trips to the supermarket during the week so you don't have to buy them all in one go.

The supermarket has no fault in this as the food they sold was still within sell by date. As said the expiry dates for fresh food is clearly indicated on the packages so it's not exactly hard to check and will only take a second.
 
I just think supermarkets should provide a better service than they do really.

No its not rocket science to check dates but more often than not they are all dated the same, I cant understand how supposedly freshly made food cant last a week with such a high turn around these big supermarkets have.

by what's been said by many above I should just roll over & take it up the ..... or even better I'll join the dole que so I have time to sort through the shelves before putting in in the trolley.


allllec said:
Places like Tesco are open 24/7 (well the extra's are anyawy), so on the way home pop in and buy stuff. Doing that every other day dosent take any more time than one big shop and stuff should always be okay. That's what I do.
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Probably best :), Suppose we only have ourselves to blame for letting all the small local shops down as well .
 
allllec said:
Places like Tesco are open 24/7 (well the extra's are anyawy), so on the way home pop in and buy stuff. Doing that every other day dosent take any more time than one big shop and stuff should always be okay. That's what I do.
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This is what I do, or I go to our local Budgens/butcher etc. Adds maybe 15 minutes onto my day but it means we can choose what we want to eat on the day and we waste a lot less than doing a big shop.

But seeing as the OP doesn't want to even spend 2 seconds looking at a date on a packet I doubt if this will interest them.
 
As someone said, get the stuff from the back of the shelves as they put the short life things at the front. Tesco near me has got a new manager and he is trying to make an impression by cutting down on his waste by leaving stuff on the shelf until the last minute!
 
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