I spent 33 years in the grocery industry at every level on the leader chain.
The ONLY mandated ‘use by’ dates were on the baby formula.
That’s it, everything else is marketing.
Milk: crap shoot...
Cheese: it only get better with age...
Bag salads: Is it rotten?
Your nose knows much better than the packaging manager....
“Bag salads: Is it rotten?”
Been following the news lately? Bad Bag Salad nowadays is not about “rotten”, it’s about Salmonella and E-coli. How do you judge that through the window on the bag?
Sadly true. Makes me think those "don't kill that cow" folks have a point. So Much Waste.
I think this is true about a lot of medicines, too. I use an allergy medicine very infrequently because I don’t want to be caught in ‘rebound effect’; so I don’t buy a lot of it. It seems to be just as effective when it’s several years ‘expired’.
Same thing with aspirin.
Very true. Sometimes milk will start to go before its 'use by' date and sometimes it can be as sweet as the day it was opened two+ weeks after.
When I'm in doubt I pour a little in a glass and taste just a touch of it. No need to take a swallow to know if it's good or bad.
Cheese is a favorite. You aged it longer and it’s half price? OK.
You got it! I always smell things because that tells me everything. When I buy meat we either eat it the next day or it gets very well wrapped & stored in the freezer.
I have eaten sour cream months past the expiration date & it is thicker & richer.