Setting Myself a Grocery Challenge for discounted food.

sarah1972

pumpkin89 said:

sarah1972 said:

I’ve never seen anywhere selling out of date food 😩 If you mean past its best before then that’s not out of date 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ 
The sooner best before are ditched, the better. Too much food being wasted by people calling it out of date when it isn’t 

How is it not out of date?  Best before is literally a date.  Your point is that food can still be good when it is out of date - hence various websites and warehouses offering it for sale.

My point was exactly what I posted ….. I’ve never seen anywhere selling out of date food as it’s illegal. 

You saying that food can be good when it’s out of date is incorrect. It can be dangerous. 

Food past its best before is not out of date, it’s past its best. 

MrsStepford

I don't buy food which has gone past it's Best Before date. 

So far, I have bought food from Best Before It's Gone, Iceland, Poundland, T K Maxx and The Range. OH will do Aldi and Lidl before end of July. 

pumpkin89

FlorayG said:

'Best before' means it's still safe to eat but may be a bit 'sad' or dried up or past it's best. 'Use by' date means that after that date it's considered not to be safe to eat, so is 'out of date'. It's illegal to sell food that is out of date.

I am fully aware of this, having worked in the food industry for many years.  My point is that every food product has either a Use By or a Best Before date.  Every food product can therefore go 'out of date' but the implications are very different depending on which type of date is used. 

sarah1972 said:

My point was exactly what I posted ….. I’ve never seen anywhere selling out of date food as it’s illegal. 

You saying that food can be good when it’s out of date is incorrect. It can be dangerous. 

Food past its best before is not out of date, it’s past its best. 

It's incorrect to say that a food beyond its Best Before date is not 'out of date' and for a seller to claim this would be false advertising which would be illegal.  It is fine to sell food beyond its Best Before date as long as this is clearly pointed out to the purchaser.

sarah1972

pumpkin89 said:

FlorayG said:

'Best before' means it's still safe to eat but may be a bit 'sad' or dried up or past it's best. 'Use by' date means that after that date it's considered not to be safe to eat, so is 'out of date'. It's illegal to sell food that is out of date.

I am fully aware of this, having worked in the food industry for many years.  My point is that every food product has either a Use By or a Best Before date.  Every food product can therefore go 'out of date' but the implications are very different depending on which type of date is used. 

sarah1972 said:

My point was exactly what I posted ….. I’ve never seen anywhere selling out of date food as it’s illegal. 

You saying that food can be good when it’s out of date is incorrect. It can be dangerous. 

Food past its best before is not out of date, it’s past its best. 

It's incorrect to say that a food beyond its Best Before date is not 'out of date' and for a seller to claim this would be false advertising which would be illegal.  It is fine to sell food beyond its Best Before date as long as this is clearly pointed out to the purchaser.

Exactly my point. Best before means exactly that. No one has said anything about a seller claiming that beyond its best before is not out date other than you 😔

My points are not incorrect at all but let’s agree to disagree as this will soon get the thread off topic. 

MrsStepford

Lidl is doing Greek Week for the third time this year. OH is finishing a course in Epsom tomorrow so he will investigate the Lidl there with a shopping list which includes Graviera cheese from Crete, Extra Virgin olive oil, stuffed vine leaves, several varieties of houmous, tzatziki, olives, butter beans, okra, antipasto, jarred artichokes with capers and Kalamon olives, and easy peelers reduced to 69p. 😎

OH wanted new bedding and towels - it must be peak moth season as they have been feasting in the bedding drawer. He is paying for them and delivery so I added some food on the ASDA and Tesco orders. All offers from ASDA 😉 

Has Tesco upped the minimum trolley/basket to £50 ? I had to add organic beef steak mince at over £5 to check out.

MrsStepford

Phew! All the food I ordered turned up yesterday. 


Olive oils from T K Maxx

Husband got a good haul from Lidl including Graviera cheese, antipasto, olives, stuffed vine leaves.

MrsStepford

Anyone got any suggestions ? I have put Aldi and FarmFoods on my list. 

MrsStepford

Wanted to do an order from ASDA but ALL the goats milk & cheese was unavailable so I did an Ocado order. Sixteen out of 29 items were offers - Finnebrogue back & streaky bacon, MSC skin on boneless haddock fillets, organic Romano peppers, Cheesies, Mr Filbert's olives (several varieties) and cashews, M&S sliced rare roast beef, Président Brie and M&S stringless runner beans.

MrsStepford

Items from Poundland 

MrsStepford

Items from Best Before It's Gone 
Water originally from Costco 30p each