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Sell by dates are to be scrapped

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  • Dave101t
    Dave101t Posts: 4,157 Forumite
    ive heard all the news and radio talk in shows on this.
    they are confusing... confusing to who? complete morons?
    probably the same people who say "woe is me, how can i afford the new tuition fees for my kids?"

    either abolish them and use a production date, or keep them as it is, talk about a nonsense story.

    ps. in China, everything has a production date on it and it works really well.
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  • spike7451
    spike7451 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    Dave101t wrote: »
    ive heard all the news and radio talk in shows on this.
    they are confusing... confusing to who? complete morons?
    probably the same people who say "woe is me, how can i afford the new tuition fees for my kids?"

    either abolish them and use a production date, or keep them as it is, talk about a nonsense story.

    ps. in China, everything has a production date on it and it works really well.

    How many of us buy a box of eggs & put them in a egg tray & bin the box,which has the use by date on them, and then use them after the use by date is up??...I know I do!
  • Justamum
    Justamum Posts: 4,727 Forumite
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    Butterfly_Brain wrote: »
    There were no use by/best before dates until 1972, shops just rotated stock properly and people survived and if you think about it a lot of tinned stuff was saved during the war for special occassions and was still edible after four or five years, people would never have thrown food away because of a best before date.

    I believe that honey has been found in Egyptian tombs which was edible!

    Apparently some food which was put in tins in the Napoleonic wars was found a couple of hundred years later and was eaten without any ill-effects. As long as the tin hasn't blown it should be ok.
  • MaggieBaking
    MaggieBaking Posts: 964 Forumite
    spike7451 wrote: »
    How many of us buy a box of eggs & put them in a egg tray & bin the box,which has the use by date on them, and then use them after the use by date is up??...I know I do!

    Most eggs bought in supermarkets have the date stamped on them. I have used them a fair amount! Although I believe the "sink or swim" test for eggs is what to go on rather than dates :)
  • mrbadexample
    mrbadexample Posts: 10,805 Forumite
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    Butterfly_Brain wrote: »
    Yoghurt is usually ok up to a week after the sell by date spike :D

    But can still be good over a year after the sell by date. I've proved this. :D
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • Justamum
    Justamum Posts: 4,727 Forumite
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    mrbadexample wrote: »
    But can still be good over a year after the sell by date. I've proved this. :D

    Did you actually eat that yogurt then?
  • mrbadexample
    mrbadexample Posts: 10,805 Forumite
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    edited 16 September 2011 at 2:55PM
    Justamum wrote: »
    Did you actually eat that yogurt then?

    Yep. Made a chocolate yoghurt cake with it. Which was lovely. :drool:

    Don't you remember? ;)
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • cagneyfan
    cagneyfan Posts: 378 Forumite
    spike7451 wrote: »
    I ate a yoghurt yesterday,use by day was 15 August & I'd forgotten it was in the fridge.Tasted ok,smelt ok & I'm still here with no ill effects...


    Hi, have you had your stomach pumped yet!? hope you're still ok!
  • mrbadexample
    mrbadexample Posts: 10,805 Forumite
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    spike7451 wrote: »
    Not really,shops will still have to reduce things in order to rotate new stock & it doesn't affect items like meat,cheese,fish ect so they'll still be reduced as normal

    spike, I seem to remember that this was your idea in the first place? :whistle:
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • Justamum
    Justamum Posts: 4,727 Forumite
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    mrbadexample wrote: »
    Yep. Made a chocolate yoghurt cake with it. Which was lovely. :drool:

    Don't you remember? ;)

    Now that's scary - my memory is worse than I thought :eek::eek::eek:
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