Best before dates to be scraped

[ivykaty44]

here

Will effect those knocked down bargins but will hopefully stop masses of food being wasted

I thought it was good til I realised it affects our reduced to clear bargains!

What are they going to scrape them with?

grovel -

very good plan.
finally something sensible.

Although, I do like the bargains we get when they reduce stuff that's still got at least a week in them...

But how will we know if something is nearly off or not? Milk and yoghurt for example.
I was talking to mum mum about this and she said there used to be food rotting on the shelves before it was they were introduced

netbook - in theory, you'd hope they'd take that into account - maybe with milk, they would still keep the dates, or have the high risk thing?
or a date when it was produced would be helpful, with a disclaimer saying "this product should be fine for so long after the production date" - then the shops would still have to rotate their stock properly.

My grandmother used to eat stuff from tins that was years (and I'm talking 7/8 years) out of date and was never poorly. I would be very wary with meat/dairy mind yah.

Netbook I'm sure they mean "Best Before" date, not "Use by" dates. Not the same thing.

The idea (as I understand it) is that there will still be 'use by' dates for things like milk that actually go off, but not 'best before' dates for things like biscuits that just go slightly squidgier.

"Best Before" date, not "Use by" dates That's ok then, as you were!

They should not scrap them, I need those bargains! Though it will be useful to have more details on the consequences, which I think is what they are proposing. e.g.;

Eat this after XX/XX/20XX and you will probably suffer D&V,
Eat this after XX/XX/20XX and it will be green and fluffy, and taste a bit funny,
Eat this after XX/XX/20XX and it will be almost exactly the same.

bit concerned that this is actually an opportunity for the big businesses and particularly the supermarkets to short date customers with their food purchases.

if it goes green/off/manky within a few days of purchase what will be the customer's proof that it was unfit for sale/purchase?

suspect that there's a much more enormous amount of food wasted because supermarkets want perfect looking produce, so the wonky carrots go in the bin rather than on display...

Does sounds like it Crysty. I am very sceptical about anything this government does, it has huge conflicts of interest and is in the pocket of big business.

HHlimbo: you can relax - it's a recycled Labour policy -see here.

i dont adhere to them,use common sense
i do hoover up the bb4 bargains and cheap stuff to freeze (last hour or so is bargaintastic)

I do wonder how much the best before date does affect whether somebody throws food away or not. I thought that most people would examine the food and throw it out if it looked off, not because of some date on the packaging.

Its not just when the food is purchased though and taken home - the supermarkets throw food away on mass due to the best before - this will hopefully stop this type of practice and possibly they will still have a knocked down section of food nearing the end of its shelf life rather than just bin the food altogether

I think it's a great idea. I know tons of people who chuck stuff out becasue it's past the BBE date and are horrified when I just sniff it and use it if it's fine. I also scrape mould of jam and cut it off cheese and use it (the bit under the mould, not the mould ).

i seek out the bb4 stuff and cheap bread.bargaintastic
stock up fill freezer

Oh NOOOOOOO I will have to stop buying food then. I need these dates to feel safe.

Seriously. I will panic if it hasn't got a date on it

but ingrid - you can smell stuff, look at it, it's usually quite obviousl when something shouldn't be eaten, aggs are myy only thing and even them you can popo into water and see whether they float or not.

Oh dear but I never trust my own instinct on food. I am rubbish with no common sense.

It is a real problem. I need those little dates on the packets or I will just not eat stuff. Sorry is not a normal situation here! Bit of a disorder I suppose.

wouldnt you use own judgement to ascertain of food ok?
pragmatically you wont stop eating so you need to plan and manage the potential stressors. will this be a significant problem for you?

In the olden days I worked on a fruit and veg market stall, where the food was on display and weighed out for the customer.
Stock control was easy-if we were weighing something and came across one that looked manky, we'd chuck it in the bin!
We were taught how to test different fruit and veg for freshness, and in quiet times we used to have to sort through the potato bins searching out the bad ones!
Oh happy days....

Yes it will be a problem SM, I won't stop eating completely but not sure how to get around this one.

It's v scary. I appreciate it's good for the general population but it's not good for me! Don't worry will find a way round it, somehow.