Supermarkets - short dating

DCFC79

uktim29 wrote: »

Exactly, complete load of rubbish. If you really thought that was the case then why don't you just keep things a few more days rather than through it away on the date written?

Takoda just wants to join in with the "lets make up something to complain about Supermarkets" crowd. You can tell that because Takoda got very defensive when I wrote my first post here.

woah someone agrees with me, cheers uktim, is it because takoda dosnt buy it at the right time

sarahg1969

I don't throw anything away just because the date on the packet tells me to.

"I have noticed that at Christmas they short date stuff so that you can't buy your Christmas dinner veggies etc early and then not have to go shopping again. They force you to shop on Christmas Eve"

You seem to be under the impression that you are not allowed to use your brain and work out whether or not your food is off. There's no law against using food after its sell-by date, you know.

Frankly, if you haven't got the gumption to check the food yourself, and you just chuck it out because the label says so, then you deserve to be "had".

Rosemary7391

Can you imagine the uproar if supermarkets put a date that was slightly too long on something??? They have to err on the side of caution - We don't, we have eyes and noses for a reason! Food doesn't go rotten all of a sudden at midnight on the date on the package.

Takoda

Yeah I take your point Sarah but I don't consider myself to have been 'had' at all. In the past I've gone back on Christmas Eve for stuff like mushrooms or carrots which are not very nice when they are respectively slimy/bendy.

Obviously some vegetables are OK like spuds and some fruits last longer than their date as well. But equally some of the stuff from abroad, that has already been deteriorating since it was picked, is close to being not very nice if left even a bit longer. Cucumbers for example - edible to slimy in a couple of days.

If you have guests coming for Christmas as many of us do you don't want to be serving them anything but the very freshest food. Well I don't anyway. It is a matter of pride.

I'd rather spend the couple of days before Christmas relaxing with my family and going for walks with the kids once they break up rather than fighting it out with other shoppers at supermarkets.

Therefore this year it will be the Farm Shop. Go early enough and it isn't crowded.

Edited to add. Plus I didn't actually say that I threw good food away. If I want something for the 25th and the best before date is the 23rd then I simply don't buy it.

uktim29

Takoda wrote: »

Therefore this year it will be the Farm Shop. Go early enough and it isn't crowded.

That will cost you twice as much, You may as well still go to a Supermarket ignore any dates if you don't believe them and get 2/3 times as much food for the same price.

DCFC79

Takoda why dont you buy the food you want on christmas eve then,

pinkshoes

Takoda wrote: »

Obviously some vegetables are OK like spuds and some fruits last longer than their date as well. But equally some of the stuff from abroad, that has already been deteriorating since it was picked, is close to being not very nice if left even a bit longer.

1. Buy BRITISH
2. Buy fruit/veg in season

Anyone who throws food away just because it's passed its use by date is a numpty. Sniff it! Does it smell/look ok? Then it probably is!

I guess if you don't wanna go shopping christmas eve, then buy it fresh earlier, cook it, and freeze it, then reheat xmas day!!!

moonrakerz

Millennium wrote: »

Did anyone see the news on Saturday about supermarkets short-dating their fresh produce?
I didn't see it but was told about it.
Apparently, supermarkets are putting a shorter than necessary use-by date on fresh foods encouraging people to throw away perfectly good food and then buying more to replace it - thus uncreasing supermarket sales/profits.
A figure of how much food the average family throws away each year was alos mentions, but I can't remember how much!
Can anyone provide any more details?

Gordon Bennet !!

Do you really need a label on a cabbage to tell you when it is fit to eat !

Did you also know that the supermarkets put aphrodisiacs in the coffee in their cafeteria so that you have more kids then go back and buy more baby food from them !! ....and they also hypnotise you at the checkout so they can short change you ? ......and the petrol pumps at their petrol stations only measure out half what it says on the pump ?

Are you allowed out on your own ?

d.edna

Cat695 wrote: »

It wouldn't suprise me, I read somewhere that sky actually reduce the quality of their normal service so people go and buy sky HD.

thats a blaten lie, I hope sky don't read this then take libel action against you

uktim29

Cat695 wrote: »

It wouldn't suprise me, I read somewhere that sky actually reduce the quality of their normal service so people go and buy sky HD.

They should be hugley fined

So should gullible people who actually believe this sort of thing and write it on forums.