Past it's sell by date: Tonight prog

Lilmil

Thanks Scarlett
Once as a student I ate Garlic Bread which was past it sell by date and had food poisoning the next day which wasn't pleasant. Taught me to heed sell by dates though!!!
Lilmil

comping_cat

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1024879/The-best-challenge---One-man-boldly-goes-use-dates-food.html

This is the article in The Mail today - very interesting reading ahead of the show!!!

frugallass

I hate throwing food away, since I have started shopping on a weekly basis I find that I've got less waste

reminds me when my daughter was little, she loved pasta with cheese on but one day she had loads of leftovers and said that she didn't like the 'green cheese' - hubby had grated it without checking it first and it was manky !

recovering_spendaholic

Reading this reminds me of my late Aunty. She would NEVER throw out food and, when she died in the mid-90's she was still wading though tins of dried egg from the war, (though no-one wanted it when we were clearing out her cupboards). She used to sit for ages with fish heads and tweezers picking out the fish to make fishcakes. She did, from time to time, get a poorly tummy, but she always maintained that a dose of slippery elm soon sorted that out!

I think that one of the biggest outrages in food wastage is the likes of McDonalds, who cook loads of burgers and then every 20 minutes throw out what hasn't been sold. I've seen under the counter and there are huge bins FULL of burgers, nuggets and so on and it is criminal. All so customers don't have to wait a few minutes for the stuff they have ordered. They stop serving breakfasts at 10.30 and then throw out all the breakfast food. I went once at 10.32 and asked if I could BUY an egg mcMuffin, as there were loads out on the back and they refused - I then watched them bin them.....

mary43

I seem to remember a programme on TV (can't remember which one) where a chap got his weekly 'shop' from Tescos (think it was them) bins.......stuff that had been thrown out either because of sell by date or ripped packaging...........such waste for the big stores just to discard stuff like that when there are homeless or people well below the bread line who could make good use of it.

rach

we've just come back from a walking holiday and bought yellow stickered sandwiches most days from tesco and ate them the day after when they were officially out of date. Still not very OS but we saved a fair bit on the full prices and was easy! no adverse effects!

a few weeks ago i found a tin of custard powder with a 1998 date on but thought i'd give it a go (didn't mention its age to DH and his mate who was round...) have to admit it had lost it's flavour but it didn't kill us...

Scarlett25

Catowen - thanks for the link :T Going off (pardon the pun!) what Jonathan Maitland ate, he must have a cast iron stomach.....eating chicken that's 6 days past its use-by date :eek: No way would I eat that!

Scarlett25

There was an article in yesterday's paper about Freegans (from the words free and vegan, though they aren't all vegans!) They rummage through supermarkets bins seeing what free food they can use out of all the food thrown away daily.

2 Freegans recovered a cardboard box stuffed with cartons of eggs (over 180 eggs in total), 12 tomatoes in packets, a box of 12 fish fingers, a carton of orange juice and 5 oranges. Everything was in date and had been thrown away probably cause of damaged packaging or because of being bruised.

Other things they've found are bread that's a few hours old, pasta, soup, cakes, yoghurts, big bags of chocolate, bags of crisps, shower gel, shampoo and loo rolls...........and they bought a freezer to store hundreds of chickens they found too! It just goes to show how much food is thrown away :eek:

ceridwen

The thing that strikes me here when thinking about all the food that gets thrown out - by McDonald's, supermarkets, households, etc is recalling the fact that Britain is apparently only producing 48% of the food required to feed us all. Well - if all this waste was stopped then that would have to decrease the amount of food we need to import one heck of a lot - and improve our "food security" quite a bit.

floss2

Can I just say in favour of MacDonalds, that in my old town they feed emergency services staff for free if they go through the drive-in their "company" vehicle..... even the fire-engines!