To think all this free food is not necessarily a good thing?

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DS works for one of the higher end supermarkets and often brings home food on it's date.

Veg I'll use, ready meals go in the freezer often never to be thought of again meat goes in the freezer and does get used, I'll take an out of date sandwich to work next day, but a lot of it is cakes/ desserts and a lot of it ends up in the bin, simply because we can't use it in time. I'll push dates on some things, but there are limits. I don't really want to eat large quantities of cake, but if it's there, I hate to see it wasted.

Last night he bought home 64, 64!, giant Easter Bunny cookies. They are actually well in date but obsolete now Easter has passed, but what am I supposed to do with them?!

He's so pleased with himself when he brings his haul home but....

Can't you just list on olio?

Take to work for colleagues? Even better, remove packaging and claim the glory of baking them?

Can he drop it off at a food bank on his way home? Things like cookies would be fine for a day or two. There will probably be someone v local to you who collects on behalf of a food bank. I have a lady in the next village who I’ll donate bits and prices too.

Do you have a local food bank you could donate the stuff you can’t/ don’t want to? I think it’s a perk of the job he can do this and great if you can benefit but better to food bank it than waste

So find a way to pass it on.
I have a friend/neighbour who is in a similar situation. She often has what looks like a small grocers shop in her garage.
She hands it on to friends and neighbours and gives away a lot of it to more needy families through school.

I hate to see it wasted
So don't. If you have a surplus, distribute it to your neighbours, friends and family - failing that, a food bank will happily take it off your hands.

Last night he bought home 64, 64!, giant Easter Bunny cookies. They are actually well in date but obsolete now Easter has passed, but what am I supposed to do with them?!
Why are cookies obsolete simply because Easter has passed..? There's no police force that will admonish you for consumption of festive baked goods outside of festive hours? 😂

I also work in a higher end supermarket- possibly the same one, at my branch staff just get first dibs and anything left goes to food banks and charities, if this is the case at your sons store tell him to stop bringing it home if you don’t need/want it! The charities that collect from us say they certainly appreciate any type of food they get from us!

Also olio. Imagine the families nearby who can’t afford treats but have kids who would love an Easter biscuit x

Take them to work or get DS to take them to school/college.
Donate them to a food bank.
Give them away on Olio or similar.

There's a woman across the road from my parents who runs the food bank. Parents are elderly but in no way poor, but she often delivers bags of fresh food to them, simply because the food bank can't use it in time. They don't want stuff on its date.

I don't consider them obsolete, but the store does, that's why I have them.

Ask him not to bring it home so that it goes to people who need it.

He's being very wasteful.

Olio is the way to go; people will come and pick up food from you (leave it in the porch if you want to minimise disruptions)

As others have said, list it on the olio app.

For the bunnies I'd post on your local recycle group and offer them out I bet they'll go.

This is literally why olio exists. People will pick it up quickly.

DH worked for Thorntons at their head office on a 6 month contract.
I have never been able to eat them since then

This is what Olio is for. Takes 30 secs to list on the app

I would take the cookies to work, and let your colleagues benefit. Or, if you have children in school/nursery, take a few there for the staff room.

Care home
Church
Food bank

Maybe tell him to stop taking this stuff if you're just going to bin it. Surely he has colleagues who'd take it?

whatsapp friends and ask if anyone would be interested

Olio app, even the ready meals you have frozen. Give to the recipient frozen and advice. If from high end supermarket. You won’t be able to keep up with demand.

Have you actually told him not to bring this stuff home? If so he shouldn’t be! All these suggestions of you putting them up on different apps, but if he’s the one bringing them and not using shouldn’t he be advertising/donating rather than leaving it to you to sort?

See if you have a local community fridge. They'll take more stuff that's at or close to end dates than food banks as they're a fine and help yourself system, rather than a referral system aimed at providing meals.