[BitWielder1]

Sell-by dates are not the same as expiration dates.
I know that, I eat stuff well after the sell by date.
If it looks, smells or tastes funny (and by that I mean not funny) then out it goes, as it should.
Reducing waste is good but don't try to make it mandatory.
It's my food, my responsibility, my choice.

[HotHunt]

Agreed.

[TontoKowalski]

I think there is a lot of waste, but probably not so much caused by the expiration date concern.

My wife will buy a rotisserie chicken for $5 at Costco. One night, I'll have some breast meat and she'll eat the legs. The next day she picks the chicken clean for chicken tacos or enchiladas. Then the carcass goes to make the base for a soup. That girl can work a chicken.

She can make the most of leftovers. I guess she learned it from her mother. She uses one of those vacuum sealer things to freeze food that will go bad before it gets eaten.

Neither of us come from wealthy families, but we weren't dirt poor either. Wasting food was a sin in our house.

"You can have all you want, but if it's on your plate, you eat it." "Don't complain about garden chores. You'll be thankful for those vegetables in the winter." "We hunt and fish to eat. We don't kill anything we won't clean and eat."

A different era, I suppose. Thrift was valued.