DH has done it again...

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Aaarghhh!! He's been shopping and come home with heaps of stuff that has today's or tomorrow's date on it.

AIBU to expect him to use his common sense and check the use-by dates when he does a food shop? I've asked him over and over and over again to check and buy whatever has the longest date, and every single time he comes home with stuff on its last legs.

Why can't he look at the date? Is it really so hard?
(and before anyone says I should feel lucky that he does the shopping at all, I usually do most of it, and yes, I have fed him out-of-date things before but he has a cast-iron stomach and it has no effect).

What can I do to change him?

YABU to pay any attention to those dates.

What bollocks. The stuff with the longest dates is the freshest. Obviously. So paying attention to them when buying, so you get the freshest food, it just f-ing common sense.

Just use the food, gnome the date.

Ignore, not gnome, gnome the date makes no sense.

repeat the process but with food which will last. At his expense

I hate it when this phrase gets wheeled out. Do people not realise that most people just share all their money so if OP sent her husband back to the shop, it would be their money that would be wasted?

I never check the dates when I'm food shopping so YABU to expect him to check.

You never check so no one else should?

Odd.

^ yes they do

Or do you go through all your sauces, pasta etc and bin them the second a date is reached??? No I don't. In fact I'm still using the last remains of some nutmeg I bought in 1983.

I'm not looking for advice on what I should be doing, thanks all the same, all I want is for DH to remember what he's been asked to do, which is to buy the freshest food on the shelf.

Keeping bread in the fridge makes it go stale. Same with bananas. Our freezer is already full of the normal things you put in a freezer. And rather a lot of reduced stuff I've bought to save money. It's only a small fridge freezer not a chest one. I don't see why I should have to make work for myself buggering about freezing odd slices of bread when with a bit of forethought from DH it could have been avoided. Hence the purpose of the thread.

Do cucumbers even have dates? No, but I can tell the difference between a nice stiff fresh one and one that's been hanging around in the shop for too long. Which one would you rather have?

BertrandRussell do you really think it’s crap?

I have to say, DH doesn’t do the shopping very often as he’s self - employed & works very long hours but he’s pretty good at picking up stuff in date when he does do it.

I think I'd question whether supermarket food is really 'fresh'. Much of it is imported so it's spent a long time in warehouses and planes. Fruit and veg are bought for appearance and not going rotten quickly. It lacks the flavour and freshness of anything that's grown in a garden or allotment.

I quite agree that inappropriate buying of food causes logistical problems. I don't have a gigantic fridge or freezer. On the other hand very ripe fruit is good in fruit salad or in smoothies. Or it can go well in various kinds of cake. It requires a bit of extra thinking. (If my husband impulses buys something which then rots at the back of the fridge I'be been known to say that if you buy something it's you're responsibility to see that it is used. But I am guilty of sometimes being too readily tempted by marked down food myself, which can't easily be used myself.)