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Original poster

To buy yellow lable reduced items..?

146 replies

sunights · 04/04/2024 22:07

When I shop at small high street supermarkets I look out for and buy items that are reduced due to their use by date where I can use them in my meal planning.

I think it is ethical to avoid food waste and know these items get thrown away if they are not sold. I also don't have any problem with trying not to spend more than I need to, as although I live in a house with a paid off mortgage and my DP has an annual passive income of around £250k, my own passive annual income is less then 10% of this and my DP expects me to split most costs equally with him.

We are in a town where CoL is very high and there is a large street homeless community in the local area.

AIBU?

OP posts:
Axx · 04/04/2024 23:03

Nothing gets wasted here, it gets put on the too good to go app if there's any left.

I know some people who can only afford yellow stickers and as I can afford to pay full price I leave them for people like her. I know some people just like a bargain but thinking I'm maybe helping someone by not choosing to buy them makes me feel good.

MrsKeats · 04/04/2024 23:03

neverknowinglyunreasonable · 04/04/2024 22:23

Never had a post been less about buying reduced yellow sticker food.....

Quite

Original poster
sunights · 04/04/2024 23:05

@idontlikealdi it's about my friend saying I was BU.

@Grimchmas my income is also passive so I am not on minimum wage.

OP posts:
MuggedByReality · 04/04/2024 23:05

Firstly, your ‘D’P is a prick.

Secondly, yellow labels. I do buy reduced stuff, but I’m selective. Anything that’s reduced in Waitrose, M&S or Sainsbury’s is fair game. We had reduced M&S curries for dinner tonight. I don’t, however, buy reduced stuff in Aldi or Lidl as I take the view that other people who shop there probably need the bargains more than me.

candgen625 · 04/04/2024 23:05

You need to explain what you think passive income means

PickAChew · 04/04/2024 23:08

Buy what you like but I'd be serving him lentils and cabbage, every day for being so tight.

Original poster
sunights · 04/04/2024 23:09

@candgen625 it is income generated from past investments or labour, such as rental income, repeat sales of pre-produced online materials etc.

OP posts:
Redshoeblueshoe · 04/04/2024 23:14

So there's a lot of homeless people where you live - and you think because your DH is a dick you should buy yellow sticker food,

I have no fucking words . . .

GenerousGardener · 04/04/2024 23:18

Just to let you know. Out of date food does not get thrown away. Some goes to charity, some goes to an anaerobic digester, some goes as animal feed. Every item unsold goes one of these ways. Nothing goes to landfill.

Tahinii · 04/04/2024 23:21

I buy yellow sticker food and we are not “low income” but money can be tight, as it is for
many people.

Having £2k per month (net or
gross?) without actively needing to work is a hilarious stealth boast though. Congrats!

XenoBitch · 04/04/2024 23:41

GenerousGardener · 04/04/2024 23:18

Just to let you know. Out of date food does not get thrown away. Some goes to charity, some goes to an anaerobic digester, some goes as animal feed. Every item unsold goes one of these ways. Nothing goes to landfill.

Is this true? My local Tesco Express chucks stuff in a skip out the back with the other rubbish.

GenerousGardener · 04/04/2024 23:46

@XenoBitch depends on
how ethical the supermarket chain is.

saraclara · 04/04/2024 23:46

Redshoeblueshoe · 04/04/2024 23:14

So there's a lot of homeless people where you live - and you think because your DH is a dick you should buy yellow sticker food,

I have no fucking words . . .

Homeless people don't buy yellow label food. 95% of it needs cooking, for a start.

My shopping routine often coincides with yellow labelling time. I pick something up regularly. Usually stuff that's I'd normally think too extravagant (finest meals, fancy desserts or normally expensive meat or fish.

I don't feel a moment's guilt. It's all about to go out of date, the shop isn't busy, anyone who's interested and in the shop at the time has the same opportunity to buy it.

If someone who could afford to eat was using a food bank, that would be wrong. Buying yellow labelled food isn't.

LittleMissBeamer · 04/04/2024 23:48

You are not at all unreasonable for buying reduced items that you are going to use. I really can’t get past the husband problem though! My husband earns 7x the amount I do and our money is shared. We pay bills, buy groceries, save, invest and have fun as a family/ individually as the rest. When our finances were separate he paid for everything and gave me money for myself too. I get that your husband wants to save, but expecting you to split the costs with such a huge pay difference is downright rude!

trekking1 · 04/04/2024 23:59

I hope by splitting costs equally with DH, you mean percentage wise based on your income!!

cherish123 · 05/04/2024 00:04

YANBU
I think it's quite reasonable for you to pay half each. I wouldn't expect to have access to your other half's money. It's quite normal to have this arrangement when you are not married. If you were married, it's a different matter - everything should be 50/50.

KittenKins · 05/04/2024 00:23

Mine offers it to a food bank, then a food waste app & then staff before ending up in a skip.

uhOhOP · 05/04/2024 00:24

Do you have a job, OP? You only mentioned the passive income you each have.

BobnLen · 05/04/2024 07:13

Do food banks dole out food at about 9 or 10 pm to eat that night as most yellow label food is on its use by date as it is fridge stuff.

Newbutoldfather · 05/04/2024 07:20

Yellow label food is win/win. It is cheaper and prevents wastage. Even those who are saying none is wasted are saying that some is basically turned to compost, which is very inefficient.

I am very comfortable and price is not really an issue for me when I food shop, but if something I want has a yellow label, of course I buy it without thinking twice.

You being financially abused by your ‘partner’ is the on,y meaningful issue here.

StormySpanielz · 05/04/2024 07:24

Bizarre post. I love a yellow sticker bargain. We stocked up on Easter Saturday! Joint income similar to yours but we have active incomes 🤣 so maybe that means we pay more tax etc.

Afraidofthedarke · 05/04/2024 07:30

Wow this is hard to read. I don’t really understand why you are concerned about the ethics behind yellow sticker items when the big problem here is that your ‘DP’ makes you split everything cost wise yet he earns 10x your salary? Sorry what!? So you have to pay for 50% of everything?? I’m hoping/assuming that you don’t have kids yet…

Afraidofthedarke · 05/04/2024 07:33

cherish123 · 05/04/2024 00:04

YANBU
I think it's quite reasonable for you to pay half each. I wouldn't expect to have access to your other half's money. It's quite normal to have this arrangement when you are not married. If you were married, it's a different matter - everything should be 50/50.

I’d agree if your salaries are fairly similar. This is what we did. But earning 10x more but still having to worry about buying yellow sticker items is bizarre!

Mindymomo · 05/04/2024 07:33

I buy yellow sticker items in M&S, these will be eaten that day. We have a community fridge day on a Saturday in the next village that collects around 200 kg of stuff, anyone can go and pick up items. Whilst I can afford whatever food I want (within reason), all our costs have risen, so I don’t think I am depriving anyone else, as usually it’s quite high price items that are reduced in M&S like fish and meat.

Willmafrockfit · 05/04/2024 07:36

i dont think you should buy yellow sticker items,
you are reducing food waste, but in reality you are depriving people who need the food and cannot afford it as much as you can.