howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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7 October 2010
19:3874127nobody has yet mentioned goods with "use by" dates.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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7 October 2010
19:4274130Colin, you slipped up there!
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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7 October 2010
20:0074132delhi belly is rife in dehli at the moment.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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7 October 2010
21:2574146Not really Alexander, when this thread had passed it`s sell by date, I was going to start a best before date thread.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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8 October 2010
06:4374175how many forumites on the forum have passed there sell by dates.?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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8 October 2010
09:3674195None of us have passed our sell by dates but a few of us might be passed our best before date.
I believe that most but not all 'best before date' are a con. A few items will be past their prime but will be completely edible for a quite while afterwards.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Someone is making a few bob here, quite surprising that eggs and milk are safe after their use by date.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-2978826/Ten-foods-safely-eat-use-dates-revealed.htmlBrian Dixon- Location: Dover
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could be used by Oxfam and co to feed the hungry;
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Certainly something needs to be done to reduce the obscene amount of wasted food, sending it overseas is out of the question as by the time it reached the needy another 3 months or more would be added to the age of the food. Our food banks only accept produce with a long expiry date so it needs someone to come up with a new idea.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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I was thinking of tinned stuff and other long life stuff howard.
Guest 1348- Registered: 20 Sep 2014
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I use the good old check of sinking egg in water after they gone past their date. It is just consumerism effecting people in that they just assume once that date has gone by their sense goes too. Sensible stocking helps too, not buying tons of perishable food or freezing it. Think I only put one food waste bag out every 2-3 weeks and that's mostly banana skins and tea bags.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well done Mr Darren I think we could all save a lot of money by not binning good food away and where we shop by going to Aldi we save about £40 per week and must say it is all good food ,we are more careful we look to see what we want before going shopping.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Nice to see we still put posts up by Colin great chap and we still miss him.
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Most of our food waste gets composted, including banana skins & teabags.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 1348- Registered: 20 Sep 2014
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We shop at the local supermarket Tesco's and its the same as the other big ones. I always go along the lines of the Pringle price index as they are often sold for a pound yet you always see them offered for 2 for £3 or 3 for £3.50 so I don't buy them until a £1 or get the nicer unbranded ones :) But the moral is that you have to look at the actual price and not the ooh bargain when it is not and costing you more. Plus just costs you more and you buy more and therefore more ends up in the food bucket.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Going off at a tangent now as Darren's comment on unbranded products reminded me of a company I was arranging their exports of about 20 years ago. We were getting a lot of business shipping containers of detergent out so I went up to their Manchester office/depot to find out more about them. I was totally astonished upon arrival to see approx 20 loading bays busy filling 40' containers with others waiting their turn.
I said to their export manager "no offence but I have never heard of your company before arranging some of your exports and why do you not feed the domestic market?". He replied along the lines of we do and you may have bought our products. It transpired that all the discount shops stocked their detergent but with various names on the boxes. You may well ask how they kept their prices so low as to be so successful, simple as they never advertised anywhere - they had a sales team to cover the UK and appointed sales agents in every corner of the globe that worked on commission only.
Since then the only products I have purchased that are known brands are tea and coffee.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I never worry about brand names. Unless I like a really like a particular brand I go for the cheapest, as I usually shop at Morrisons their own brands are perfect for my needs.
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Guest 1348- Registered: 20 Sep 2014
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The only thing I find dam horrible even unbranded is the quality of ham/chicken. So riddled with fat and grissle and looking so un appetising, even the more expensive packs. Gone to luncheon meat which is so much better than the actual ham lately.
As to Howards many production lines will do batches or different runs and they will be different brands/blends but same producer. And as highlighted branded products often carry a premium as they have a huge advertising budget.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I never buy packet meat products as I always go to the deli counter where it is freshly sliced. Much of the prepacked is from reconstituted and then shaped rubbish
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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