How do you handle the different types of expiration dates on your foods?

Lived in Switzerland on the streets for many years. I was constantly finding the day old sandwiches that were perfectly fine and tasty in plastic boxes behind the shops. I was so charmed by the country that I even helped the delivery guy when he showed up in the morning by organising the pallette he needed to remove. You can see me doing this in the video on my channel. I also got more stuff from a kiosk at the station where the owner just started giving them to me. In return I went there every morning to carry the empty boxes for 🥐 and doughnuts to the recycling at the other end of the station. Here in England it is the complete opposite, I have seen people getting 7 years in prison for stealing milk for their kids, but the mandatory sentence for a third time offender is always implemented. Never stole anything myself, and most the other Swiss homeless people didn't either because of the readily available food from the bins. The staff would usually make sure that all the edible waste was put in clean plastic bags so we could recoup it. I still think that food is being used as a weapon against the majority of us, poisonous additives and packaging. Anyway, take care and feed the sparrows.

There is no yeast in cake mix. Cake mixes have expiration dates because the leavener, baking powder, loses its potency over time.

I hate "sell by" dates. Give me a "best by" date so I know which item will actually last longer.

Real honey doesn't go bad if it is real honey & not flavored corn syrup. Always look for Real Honey.

Dates are not that important on canned goods as long as the can is in good shape. I recently had a can of green beans I found in the pantry that was 3 years past the best buy date. They looked good, smelled good, I cooked them and they tasted just as they should. Milk and cottage cheese is usually good for up to a week after the date. Smell it. Use your senses to see if something is still good. Hard cheese can be good for a long time past date. Eggs stay good for a good while.

Any time you go beyond a "best by" date, after the look and smell date, complete and thorough cooking is called for.

FYI - cake mixes don't contain yeast.

If something has mold in it, I'm not picking it off and eating the rest, I'm throwing the whole thing out 🤮. The best thing to do is not to buy in excess; buy the amount of food you and your family will eat will eliminate food waste!!! I see so many people hoarding food. If it's not perishable, the date is mostly for quality. It's ok to eat that bag of chips past the date on the bag! But the ultimate thing you need to ask yourself is, why did you buy so many or buy it at all where it sat so long to reach that date?

Some things not addressed, the format on dates are somewhat confusing, especially in Canada, some dates are MMDDYY, YYYY MM DD some are DDMMYY, Some use the notation BB/MA (Best Before/Meilleur avant)? (updated) Anyway, I found some helpful things when reading months: JA: January FE: February MR: March AL: April MA: May JN: June JL: July AU: August SE: September OC: October NO: November DE: December

Good Info. For me, milk and Dairy products, Baby Formula etc. Spoil much faster than other foods. Some Breads also. It is amazing how long Flour Tortillas last. And Sour Dough Bread too. Light and Heat is also a problem with Foods. Of course a Basement is the best place to store Food. Always Cool and Dry. I use expired canned Goods all the time. But always use Caution and Common Sense. Especially with Raw Meat. Always Freeze your Raw Meat for any kind of Storage. You can Refrigerate for a Few Days, but no longer than that. That's my little two cents on the matter of Food. Always use Caution.

It still makes me nauseous to think about eating something that's past the expiration date. I know it's mind over matter but I just can't. 🤢

I knew and even argued with others about it 😊

In my experience the most serious food quality problem is not the use by date. It is how the food has been stored and handled getting it to the customer. If you're shelf stable food has been sitting in a shipping container reaching temperatures well above 100° for hours or days or weeks that food may no longer be good food. Or if food has been sitting warm on a cart in the stores back room and then is placed in a cooler it may no longer be good food. So you always have to depend on your experience and your ability to observe the quality. In 70 years I have had food poisoning three times each time it was from a restaurant. The Experience can be very bad. At first you're afraid you will die and then you are afraid that you won't die. In past Generations it was very common to point to Summer Complaint, as a minor illness. The cause was because Refrigeration didn't exist and the food was spoiling. Since covid I have noticed that a lot of food on our shelves has no use by date anymore. Also that a lot of food well within its use by date is obviously spoiling.

Canned food can be good for years after the expiration date. But if the can is dented, then use it before that date.

Set your refrigerator to 5C, and most things like weeks after the use by date. I am currently drinking milk (that is still fine) that has a use by of January 23rd (4 days ago). Set you fridge at the right temperature and save tons of money!

Buttermilk lasts more than a month past its date.

My sea salt, is a million years old, but it expires next tuesday.

Pickles can keep up to twelve years in a fridge, so long as you don't put a dirty spoon in the jar. But who would keep pickles that long?

I ate some lara scudders natural peanut butter that was a year past the date and it made me throw up for 4hrs. the oil probably went rancid. Didn't notice the date until after I ate it!😲

This is true information.

Better to toss food that may be off than weld yourself to the shitter for 3 days.

I seem to have ended up as the ham and bacon inspector in some supermarkets, because some of the staff, don't know that they change colour, when going off.

Well I think I would discard it at a reasonable time I’d rather take the loss of the cost instead of getting sick ❤❤

Just remember for a long time they didn't have dates on anything.

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Where I live as soon as the expiration date is close they sell the items two for the price of one, suckers. I relish these deals as it’s a great way to save cash.

I was right all along !

All these years that people wasted good food by throwing it out

Very good

Common sense goes a long way when it comes to best before dates.

Mold on natural cheese that has been kept in the fridge is not a hazard to your health but it does have a very sharp taste. You can cut it off and the cheese is fine or if you like the sharp taste just eat it. I'm 63 and been doing this my entire life without any incident.

Some not so good fresh vegetables and fruits, can be made into stews, soups, purees and similar dishes.

I found in the dumpster a ton of hand sanitizer thrown away because of the expiration date. Does alcohol expire?

I buying near expiry date milk to make yogurt. I love over expired cheese.

Food does not know it is suppose to go bad on a certain date

I ate a can of progressive soup that was exactly 1 yrold. I am still here the soup was 👍 great

I normally wet-age my brisket for 45 days in the fridge before smoking.

Just think what they're mixing to keep those food products last long? They're adding all the chemicals, preservatives, artificial flavors and food coloring etc in food to keep them, make them look good for a long time. So it's better to throw them as early as possible.

Irradiated peanut butter still good 15 years past its expiration date.

these videos just prove that Dead Internet Theory... how many times has this been done, over and over again...?

Its coz...just to b more careful...exp. dates are lessen than actual 1s

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In 1996 when my mother died, I inherited a case ( of 25 cans) of Ensure™, a vitamin fortified elder-care milkshake. It was 2 years away from expiration. The warnings about discarding the product were very specific and in bold type, on the side of each can. (Beyond what is typically written on many food stuffs). They aren't all that great tasting, and are designed for seniors, who may be dying, or are chronically ill. Because they are so extra fortified with vitamins, it seemed like it would have been a colossal waste, for me to, not try to drink them up. Not tasty enough for me to want to drink one each day, I tried my best to consume them before they expired. This product doesn't need refrigeration, until it is open. However they are only palatable, when they are chilled. I was shocked, that they became immediately un-drinkable, one day after they expired. (barely 24 hours) The homogenous liquid milkshake, changed into a lumpy, and semi-slimy, goo. I opened the other cans, thinking it was a fluke, and perhaps only one can was compromised. NOPE,...they all had transformed into a lumpy, gooey, (gross) solution, (overnight). Luckily I only had to toss out 10 cans. (So unpalatable, to a person who isn't sick, I found it to be a real challenge for me, to drink them up. lol)

If you're still buying stuff with exploration dates on it then there is no help for you.

Well, there's only one time zone in the United Kingdom... midnight the same time across across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It's unlikely the Food Standards Agency in a country with one time zone would address a non-existent issue.

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Here was a few things that are not quite correct, but I'll only comment on two of them: Freeze burn isn't the only issue with frozen foods. Absolutely everything in the freezer will spoil at some point, it just takes a long time. And anything containing fat can be spoiled quite quickly (depends on fat type). For example, frozen white fish will start to turn yellow, usually when frozen at least 6 months (in most cases longer, though). When this happens, it will smell sour as hell if defrosted, and will be slimy, so don't bother - simply toss it if you see it's yellow. Mold. Never ever eat anyting with mold, except certain cheese that are supposed to have it. The reason is, even if you carve away the molded part, the mold isn't gone, since most types of mold have long roots going deep into the product. Those roots alone can be dangerous.

Im eating expired instan noddle while wacthing this video🤣🤣🤣

Are these the same as expiry dates?

I have oat bread that expired in October 2022 and to this day doesn’t have mold on it and is normal

So with heavy cream…it says use within 7 days after opening, even with the expiration day 2 months away…is it still good longer than that after opening?

its funny i have butter that expired the 6/9 tooday is the 24/07 diten mold og smell bad at all

Called marketing 🤫

Cake mix with yeast??? Hmm.

00:15 What you failed to state as fact as that the dates are *absolutely NOT "expiration dates"!!! They are "Best By", "Sell By", "Use By" dates.

Well, I was hungry before watching this video. Not any more. Eggs can last longer than you think but if the white is watery, you got to wonder. I don't have to tell you about smell of it. You know it's bad if it smells bad.

Not sure is it true in other country. A lot the ink used will disappear after the expiration date, be it 2 years or few months. Anyone of you experienced such?

Milk and yogurt dates are no joke, they are bad the day after.

silly question, would there be any value in an adult drinking baby formula to supplement nutrition?

The fact that you do most of your shopping doesn't indicate quality is your number one concern

I noticed the expiration dates on bottles of Fairlife milk were three months out from when it was bottled. I found out why is that the milk is ultra-pasteurized with an additional step that very briefly shoots the temperature of the milk up a few extra degrees. As an experiment I kept a couple bottles of Fairlife milk for three months past the expiration date on the cap. It was perfectly fine. I then bought three gallons of Great Value whole milk and put it in the fridge in the basement. I opened one gallon two months past the expiration date. It was perfectly fine. The second at three months past the expiration date - it was perfectly fine. Four months past the expiration date - it was perfectly fine. Never asked, but I assume other milk bottlers do the same step as Fairlife but just don't advertise it. If after two weeks you think it has gone bad you pitch it and buy more. So in this case with milk, it appears to be a gimmick.

What about milk? Milk hits that date its chunky..those dates are on there for a reason

There is no yeast in a cake mix. Baking soda or powder.

Even famous Chefs never go with this one hahha they only use their most powerful tool their noise.

Sorry My OCD won't let me eat anything beyond the expiration date

I am watching this literally the day after eating 2 month expired pesto sauce. I'm still alive.

If the date is within 2 to 3 weeks of my planned purchase, I won't purchase the item.

Decades ago a woman appeared on The Tonight Show with her book "The Joys of Carrion Eating". During the interview she gave a line that stayed with me: "As long as you cook it well done, no matter how bad it smells, it can't hurt you."

You sniff it.

TL;DR - Welcome to the Broke Life, where tossing out foods unnecessarily can leave you hungry

When you dry aged meat It can be eaten forever

I had an unopened bottle of Heinz ketchup go out of date,. It turned a really dark red, like a dark maroon and a bag of unopened powder sugar go out of date and the bad swelled up like it was going to pop,. They both went in the trash...

you choose to buy something and arrive at expiration date; there is something wrong with your judgment call system; in how what you buy; to eat; there is nothing wrong with expiration date system; but some thing wrong with you;

Expired date

Your sources include Vox, NPR and Healthine? Batting 0 for 3.

And after a hundred years in the future you'll be saying the same thing food from 1906 feel good today

The image of that newborn drinking formula was abhorrent.

Getting rid of experation dates is stupid. Use common sense and don't contribute to food wastage!

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