How Strict Are You With Expiration Dates?
Question of the Week: What's your practice with expiration dates - strictly follow them, rely on smell and taste, or ignore them unless the food looks bad? Comments
Question of the Week: What's your practice with expiration dates - strictly follow them, rely on smell and taste, or ignore them unless the food looks bad? Comments
Their only meaning if that they don’t want to be a liability and to be sued
Until you get food poisoning
“Sell-by” is for store inventory and peak quality, not safety.
Is the raw chicken that didnt last in the fridge and smelled like rotten eggs even before the expiration date!
When it comes to perishable foods, the expiration date doesn’t mean much if the items were left out on the fridge/ freezer.
The supermarket as well as in your home.
Doesn’t it depend on the type of food?
Milk isn’t be the date – more smell
Cold cuts by the look
Pretzels by smell
Chips by the taste
A can of tuna or beans can be eaten even a year later
Condiments also can be a few months after expiration date
Eating cold cuts (processed meats) increases your risk of cancer, particularly colorectal cancer, due to chemicals formed during preservation
Would not eat some items even 2/3days before expiration date
It may come as a shock, but printed food dates are not federally regulated and do not refer to food safety. Thus, it is usually safe to eat your “expired” food after its printed date has passed. Definitions of Popular Food Dates Best Before Date – The “Best Before Date” is, according to the manufacturer, the last date by which a products flavor or quality is best, the optimal time of its shelf life for quality. As noted above, the product may still be enjoyed after the “best before date.” Additionally the manufacturer may call this the “Best if Used… Read more »
Throw it out even close to exp date or if it sat in the kitchen cabinets too long in hot temperatures. A resolution i have a hard time with is not buying and wasting so much food.
For dairy, meat, and anything that could really go bad, I pay attention to the date and don’t mess around too much. For stuff like dry goods, condiments, or anything shelf-stable, I mostly use common sense. If it smells fine, looks fine, and tastes fine, I’m usually okay with it even if the date’s passed.
Throw it out if its past the expiration date – I don’t want to risk getting sick..
Is now a good time to talk about how I’ve never left the market place or empire kosher ONCE without something disgustingly moldy. Weather bread/wraps/produce. They slab on “expiration dates” on their old stuff. Gross.
A hundred years later it reverts back to being before the expiration date.
These Best Before Dates are the biggest Marketing scheme going. Our kids are now conditioned to throw good food out, so you spend more or more money.
Expiration Dates are required by law for Drugs and infant food.
Canada is asking companies to remove these Best Before Dates. Just include when it was manufactured.
Too much food is being wasted. Go by smell, your eyes, and taste.
Won’t risk food poisoning
Most times it’s already spoiled before the date
The food will tell me if its okay or not. Not a number because that’s the requirement. So many times with lettuce it says the expiration date a couple of days later however the lettuce is already not good even without opening the package.
The amount of times I’ve come home from the store with chicken , meat and fish smelling horrific. It’s not like I even waited ONE day to make it – the actual day I buy it and store properly, just a few hours later begin to cook and it’s happened way too many times I need to throw out and figure out another dinner plan. CROWN HEIGHTS STORES – need to start selling ACTUAL FRESH food! Don’t even get me started on the milk and produce 😭😩 I just want fresh real food! And I hate to be the one… Read more »
you have no idea if the kosher pantry products are from 3 years ago…they do
not put expiration dates.
Many yiddishe stores try to sell boxed food that has expired! I go by the smell & if it has any kind of smell i return it ! Thats why its good to shop at a store that has a good turnover……..
This topic is long overdue! The issue at hand is that many companies such as Lieber’s & Paskesz etc. or imported products do NOT even put an expiration date on Most of their products, Therefore we hesitate to buy them because you’re just gambling on the freshness, Especially outside of N.Y. where these products don’t sell as fast, Throughout the years we threw away too many of these products wasting a lot of food and money, A company who is scared to put an expiration date and only puts a code, gives a feeling like they are hiding behind the… Read more »
If people stopped buying products that don’t have a clear Expiration Date, that would force the companies to start putting an Expiration Date on all their food products!
Plain and simple!
As the expiration date nears or passes, I check the food to make certain it is ok.
Keep refrig very cold.
Cookies last forever.
Some things that have best before are still edible way past the best before date.
E.g. honey, many lollies (they’re all mostly sugar).
Also matters if food is kept in a fridge or a freezer or not. e.g. frozen milk can last months after expiry date if frozen and it doesn’t spoil.
Perishable foods are a real issue to eat after the expiry date, you can get really sick from eating it past the expiry date. Also don’t eat mayonnaise past the expiry date.