Tescos shop

[AliceMcK]

So I booked an online shop at the beginning of lockdown, it finally arrived yesterday evening. I was too tired and just put it away without checking anything, today I start going through the fresh food and with the exception of 2 packs of sausages everything fresh had today and tomorrow’s dates on it. I’ve had to throw almost everything away 😢

I'm shocked at the amount of people perfectly okay with wasting food like that, people have lost their jobs and struggle to feed their kids and people are saying they'd throw out food that has a best before of tomorrow because they didn't fancy eating it before it went off. Just eat that food first. So many resources went into making that food for you to just throw it away, someone has to eat it, if not the supermarkets are just gonna throw it away as well and it's disgusting when so many people go hungry.

I'm shocked at the amount of people perfectly okay with wasting food like that, people have lost their jobs and struggle to feed their kids and people are saying they'd throw out food that has a best before of tomorrow because they didn't fancy eating it before it went off.

NekoShiro Other people losing their jobs or struggling to feed their families isn’t my problem.

If they can’t afford to buy sausages, me buying them and either eating or throwing them away isn’t affecting them, because they couldn’t afford to buy them anyway. So it’s irrelevant whether it goes in my belly or in my bin.

That’s a shocking attitude to food waste

@Sirzy

That’s a shocking attitude to food waste

If you say so. It’s true though; what I do with food I buy with my own money isn’t affecting anyone else. Nobody else is going hungry simply because I threw it away; they’re going hungry because they don’t have the money.

It’s not as if I’m taking the last pack available that they could buy and chucking it; they can’t afford it in the first place. That isn’t on me. I will do what I like with what I buy with my own money.

I can't believe you threw all that food away, what a complete waste!!

I froze one pack of meat because that was all I could fit in my freezer

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to go through the freezer and eat all the food in there, what with your ridiculous decision to throw away perfectly good food because its within its use by date. There's your food for next week sorted.

So you couldn’t have cooked things thus giving them an extra couple of days in the fridge? You couldn’t freeze anything? You literally had to throw food away? Fucking ridiculous.

Other people losing their jobs or struggling to feed their families isn’t my problem.

Wow. What an attitude to a) have b) admit to.

Didn’t the driver say and didn’t your receipt state the short dated items? My driver always says when I have short dates items (as it’s printed on the receipt)
That way, I can either freeze, or change my meal plan around to suit.

250,000 tones of the food that goes to waste each year is still edible. Enough for 650 million meals!

It's disgusting that people throw perfectly good food out, and even more disgusting that people have some misplaced snobbery about utilising their freezer.

An absolutely crazy thread, I never knew how brainless some people are!

I don’t think you’ll get anywhere with customer services if it was only a best before date and not a use by as best before is just guidance and should be done away with. It’s so wasteful to have thrown it all away - couldn’t you have opened it and used your eyes and nose to tell if it was ok? Stuff doesn’t magically go off at the stroke of midnight on its date. Depending what it is, it can be fine for weeks or months past the date.

This is absolute batshit, throwing out perfectly good food, refusing to use a freezer, not eating anything less than 48 hours before the best before date. Totally bonkers

@Sparklingbrook

Other people losing their jobs or struggling to feed their families isn’t my problem.

Wow. What an attitude to a) have b) admit to.

I'm going with they're taking the piss. That's the only thing that makes sense

@gamerchick I'll go with that too I think.

OP could have at least listed them on Olio (food sharing app) or offered them to a friend or neighbour instead of just binning, disgusting but sadly very common attitude to waste.

@PattyPan

I don’t think you’ll get anywhere with customer services if it was only a best before date and not a use by as best before is just guidance and should be done away with. It’s so wasteful to have thrown it all away - couldn’t you have opened it and used your eyes and nose to tell if it was ok? Stuff doesn’t magically go off at the stroke of midnight on its date. Depending what it is, it can be fine for weeks or months past the date.

If it’s meat or fish then it will be a use by date not a best before one.

@Rememberallball true but OP said everything fresh so I was assuming also fruit & veg, bread, eggs etc which have best before. I know Sainsburys only refunds based on use by not best before.

Some Tesco stores don't put a best before date on fruit and veg, presumably to make people have to go back and buy more to replace the stuff they've had to bin because it hasn't lasted as long as the customer had hoped.
Cunning business practice but terrible for food waste.

@Moonmelodies

Some Tesco stores don't put a best before date on fruit and veg, presumably to make people have to go back and buy more to replace the stuff they've had to bin because it hasn't lasted as long as the customer had hoped. Cunning business practice but terrible for food waste.

Not putting best before dates is reducing food waste not the other way round.

[quote PattyPan]@Rememberallball true but OP said everything fresh so I was assuming also fruit & veg, bread, eggs etc which have best before. I know Sainsburys only refunds based on use by not best before.[/quote]
OP says this in one of her later posts....

Deli chicken, fresh chicken pizza, duck in sauce, Thai chicken meals, deli ham, chicken thighs, steak (that went in the freezer) & pork mince

So presume all things at would have a use by not best before date as all are meat products.

You should have cooked some of it and then it would last another 3 days, especially something like the pork mince!

Not putting best before dates is reducing food waste not the other way round.

Not so, customer buys peppers with no date to use next Wednesday, they go rotten on the Monday, customer bins peppers.
Customer chooses peppers dated beyond next Tuesday, to use next Wednesday, customer uses peppers.

Dates no guarentee it would last that long anyway. People should be sensible and check fridge to look for fruit or veg going off and freeze, cook or whatever.
Not putting dates on veg is to try and stop ridiculous people throwing their perfectly good lettuce out as they think it goes bad at the stroke of midnight

The chicken in the fresh chicken pizza would've been pre cooked. They dont use raw chicken.
The pork mince could've made a bolognese or mince for cottage pie then frozen.

Agree with others. Such a waste.