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It seems the Food Standards Agency are thinking about scraping the sell by date on food products because to much food is being wasted. For my way of thinking I use what god gave me where food is concerned, if it smells okay and it looks okay get it in the pan or slap butter on it

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i'm very much like that too Jay, opened a packet of oatcakes the other day that i bought last week.....they'd gone rather green, so i wizzed um :D

i go by the look most of the time, i buy one loaf a week because neither Reece nor myself eat a lot of bread and half the time the bread goes green cos we dont eat it, i think i buy bread more for the birds than i do for us

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It's about time the F.S.A. got rid of "best before" dates, when i was young there was no such thing, in fact, i did not even see a fridge until i was 12 as they were still very expensive. The best before dates are only a guide anyway, i think it is more common sense to ensure the food is still fresh before it is eaten.

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removing sell by dates will also reduce marker usage as corner shops will no longer need to alter the dates to make them appear in date :)

of course we need sell by dates , stuff comes in plastic wrapping these days so you cant inspect food properly , also dont fancy having to walk back to a shop after doing my shopping because teh milks off or get lumbered with a 2 year old chicken thats been stuck at teh bottom of a freezer

its not liek the good old days , our food comes from all over the world and not from the farmer down the road

i quite like been able to tell if my bread is 1 day old or 3 days old it makes all the difference

eggs could have a longer sell by date on them because they keeep way beyond what they print on them , i may be wrong here but i think if an egg floats in a pan of water it means its bad

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I get worried about you when you make sensible posts like this, have you been drinking?

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I really hope they don't scrap the sell by dates!

I'll need somet else to whine at Simon for when he goes shopping and brings somet home that aint got a long enough date on! :rolleyes: :D

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If they did get rid of them it would make my job alot easier and save the shops alot of money.
It takes me about an hour on a good day and on a bad day well who knows,to price reduce stock in the co-op. Fruit and veg gets thrown away for no reason other than the date label says so. And its such a waste,peaches and nectarines that havnt even ripened,go in the bin,and the price meat goes for is robbery because the label says its 1 day left on its date!
And staff cant have them because its classed as theft so in the bin they all go !

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Maybe you would not have a job if they did not need anyone to check that none of the food was rotting on the shelves :rolleyes:

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I thought "sell by" had already been replaced with "display until". The latter also has either "best before" and/or "use by" date, which means the customer can reasonably expect a bit of shelf life at home from the produce. "Best before" just means the point beyond which it's still usable, just not necessarily as good as it was. "Use by" is when it's really not advisable to make use of it beyond that date.

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thats why places like asda have a whoops shelf :D

i fell on my head which seems to have had a temporary counter effect to been dropped on my head when a baby :D

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Do you need a crack on the head again to return you to your normal?
I am sure lots of people would join the queue to try and help you out :D

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You can still by food from the farmer down the road. Butchers are still open, and you can buy things from dairy farms and such.

My friend Lucy and I grow our own organic vegetables now in the university garden and we got permission to have chickens on campus for eggs. The only things we buy from the supermarket are bread and milk, but we aren't allowed to have a cow and I don't think there is a local dairy farmer nearby and we don't drive and haven't got permission to have a cow yet.

We even incubated eggs in her room and now have 10 chicks. Good times. The chickens are rescued battery hens.

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Pray tell us just what your going to do with 10 chicks blazey now you've rescued them from the battery:confused: I maybe getting on a bit but:confused:

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Thats easy, you wait until they are nice and plump then pull their heads off and chuck them in the oven.

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Jaysay, I don't know if it is because we are of the same era, but I too, take little notice of sell by dates.
If it looks alright and smells alright and has no green overcoat on then we eat it......and I have even been known to cut or scrape any green overcoat off certain foods......and once the overcoat is removed, eat the food.
There isn't much food goes into our bin.....unless it is really manky:D

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Thats ok but without sell buy dates shops would be able to sell anything and you would not find out if it was ok till you got it home

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Of course you are right to a degree Neil, but I remember the days before 'sell by' dates and we survived.
And if you bought something that was 'off' you'd take it back and get a replacement.

I try, where possible to buy fresh foods, and if I can buy stuff without it being sheathed in plastic, then I do...though sometimes it is hard....everything seems to come in a tough plastic overcoat these days.

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The CHICKENS are in a pen. The chicks are still too young to go outdoors and are still living with heat lamps. They'll also go in a pen.

The University allocated us a garden at the end of the rugby field and the pen runs next to it. We grow tomatoes, carrots, garlic, onions, potatoes, leeks, strawberries, pumpkins, raddishs... loads of things. It's a very satisfying way of living.

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Its the wrapped in plastic food that is impossible to sniff until your break into it. Places like Asda/Tesco would be the problem with no sell by dates

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At least you could have used a big grinning smiley behind that statement Neil:D

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You still ain't answered the question :rolleyes:

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I would be worried about some things like fresh or prepacked meat,,,but yesterday i had a tin of m&s lamb curry that should have been used feb 2008.....I wasent even sick,,,lol

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I don't add smilies when I am being serious.

Anyone for BBQ goat this weekend in the park :D

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Can you save me a leg:D

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they started doing goat at the local chineese chippy

i asked for goat

he said ahhso

i said no thanx id rather have the leg :)

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Would that be with flide lice accyman:D

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yes but becarefull when ordering takaway because theres so many wongs and wings you can easily wing the wong number :D

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hang on did that indian takeaway down blackburn road get shut down a few years ago for serving cat or was it just that the cats wernt displaying sell by dates ?

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You mean in the same way as Mutton dressed as Lamb:D

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no i mean cat dressed as chicken lol

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going way back the first "Chinese" restraunt in accy by railway arch on Blackburn Rd. the "King Wah" got done cos the inspectors found dead cats in the fridge.:D i never noticed owt wi the chicken though.:rolleyes: