reduced foods at Tesco and Sainsbury

I hunt for reduced food and often eat it well beyond the expiry date with no bad effect all the best urban

I had it explained to me once by someone who works at a head office of a large supermarket chain. They said that the expiry dates on most foods are usually a day or two before the food will go off - but it depends on the quality of the supermarket... for example... (I am talking about how they mark up their own brands here) If you get something from Somerfield you usually have 1 day over the use by date to consume the food. If you get something from Tesco/Asda etc you usually can allow 2 days M&S however are by far the best and I have been told you can reasonably be able to eat the foods up to 3 days after the use by date. M&S don't have bargain counters though - but it is still handy to know... A lot of the time you can just use your judgement - because something like cheese can be ok for a week after sell by dates as long as it has not been opened.

You may have heard of the movement called "Freeganism" where people go dumpster diving outside supermarkets to salvage viable foodstuffs that are still perfectly edible,it's just the label says their shelf life is up..Only fresh foods and dairy produce would be very time critical..anything with preservatives added should still be safe on expiry day! Cheese would be one of our ways of preserving milk produce..as long as there was no mould evident (assuming it's not blue cheese!)It'd still be good next day,especially if your plan was to use it on that day..