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Post by overthehill on Feb 22, 2024 10:23:59 GMT
Thank you, parsnips are from asda, code is B22.
I haven't read any background on this, so I still don't know which foods qualify. I'm struggling to see the  point if the code is that simple to decode.
Has to be simple enough for the staff to stock rotate I guess, but once you know they might as well put the date!
Probably not so as they use a scanner so I had assumed it was barcoded.
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Post by bracknellboy on Feb 22, 2024 10:42:58 GMT
I think they may also just be putting 'codes' on somethings, not sure if Costco always did it but their veg just has a date code (I assume date picked) which is elapsed days from Jan 1st, so pick the highest number for the longest date. And apparently some supermarkets are doing A for January and then the day, so A10 for 10th Jan, then B for February, etc, I haven't really noticed this yet. I've noticed that a lot of pre-packaged veg doesn't have any date on. I'm intelligent and competent enough to know what a manky potato looks like without having to look at the packaging. Most of us know what a manky potato/carrot/aubergine looks like. However for me that isn't the point. I can't tell how long something has likely got before it starts to be manky. Dates on packaged veg mean I can buy the longest dated available, and not buy if it is too short dated for its likely use, and thereby minimise food waste at home. Supermarkets that are removing food dates are transferring food waste from the store to the home. Their motive is to reduce their wastage - both for publicity and cost reasons - and shift the burden elsewhere. They use the "we're doing it to reduce food waste by idiots that can't tell a date from a state" as a smokescreen. The coding systems are not all obvious. My only regular places are Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys. The latter kept dates on longer than the former, but have now also removed on many items. I've not figured their system out. Oh, my local Tesco's no longer sells carrots individually. Only in plastic wrapped bags of 1kg. Undated. The last two packs I've bought, 3/4 of both have ended up on the composter because they've gone manky in a few days. In a household that tries to avoid food waste, that's disgraceful.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Feb 22, 2024 10:55:41 GMT
I've noticed that a lot of pre-packaged veg doesn't have any date on. I'm intelligent and competent enough to know what a manky potato looks like without having to look at the packaging. Most of us know what a manky potato/carrot/aubergine looks like. However for me that isn't the point. I can't tell how long something has likely got before it starts to be manky. Dates on packaged veg mean I can buy the longest dated available, and not buy if it is too short dated for its likely use, and thereby minimise food waste at home. Supermarkets that are removing food dates are transferring food waste from the store to the home. Their motive is to reduce their wastage - both for publicity and cost reasons - and shift the burden elsewhere. They use the "we're doing it to reduce food waste by idiots that can't tell a date from a state" as a smokescreen. The coding systems are not all obvious. My only regular places are Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys. The latter kept dates on longer than the former, but have now also removed on many items. I've not figured their system out. Oh, my local Tesco's no longer sells carrots individually. Only in plastic wrapped bags of 1kg. Undated. The last two packs I've bought, 3/4 of both have ended up on the composter because they've gone manky in a few days. In a household that tries to avoid food waste, that's disgraceful. My Tesco carrots have a B20 on them, so they seem to use the A, B, C system. Bought last week and stored in the fridge they look fine at the minute.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Feb 22, 2024 11:04:25 GMT
Has to be simple enough for the staff to stock rotate I guess, but once you know they might as well put the date!
Probably not so as they use a scanner so I had assumed it was barcoded.
It would be slow to scan every bag of carrots or whatever looking for out of date, but anyway it's good for us that it's easily decoded whatever the reason.
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Post by benaj on Feb 22, 2024 11:05:21 GMT
Don't get fixated by parsnips folks, there are plenty of other killer foods out there waiting to expire and put you in hospital...
What could possibly go wrong ?
Persuade me it is has absolutely nothing to do with supermarket profits.
I suppose it depends how you got the food source and store them in the first place. According to this bird, some onions can be stored for months. youtu.be/dtWzx0iW2Qg
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Post by adrianc on Feb 22, 2024 13:44:08 GMT
I've noticed that a lot of pre-packaged veg doesn't have any date on. I'm intelligent and competent enough to know what a manky potato looks like without having to look at the packaging. Most of us know what a manky potato/carrot/aubergine looks like. However for me that isn't the point. I can't tell how long something has likely got before it starts to be manky. Dates on packaged veg mean I can buy the longest dated available, and not buy if it is too short dated for its likely use, and thereby minimise food waste at home. We've all bought packaged fruit and veg and found one or more item within that's nasty well before the date - and others in the same package that are good for days afterwards... The problem is supermarkets moving to only having bagged, not loose. Vote with your wallet. If you go into Tesco, and they don't have loose carrots, go to Sainsbury instead.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Feb 22, 2024 14:43:12 GMT
Most of us know what a manky potato/carrot/aubergine looks like. However for me that isn't the point. I can't tell how long something has likely got before it starts to be manky. Dates on packaged veg mean I can buy the longest dated available, and not buy if it is too short dated for its likely use, and thereby minimise food waste at home. We've all bought packaged fruit and veg and found one or more item within that's nasty well before the date - and others in the same package that are good for days afterwards... The problem is supermarkets moving to only having bagged, not loose. Vote with your wallet. If you go into Tesco, and they don't have loose carrots, go to Sainsbury instead. My Tesco has loose carrots and parsnips, Aldi price matched, same price per kg for bagged. The loose carrots tend to be monsters! May have been out of stock. Going from one supermarket to another to do shopping is a pain, so you often have to compromise on some things for convenience, our different supermarkets are miles apart.
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Post by bracknellboy on Feb 22, 2024 14:54:13 GMT
Most of us know what a manky potato/carrot/aubergine looks like. However for me that isn't the point. I can't tell how long something has likely got before it starts to be manky. Dates on packaged veg mean I can buy the longest dated available, and not buy if it is too short dated for its likely use, and thereby minimise food waste at home. We've all bought packaged fruit and veg and found one or more item within that's nasty well before the date - and others in the same package that are good for days afterwards... The problem is supermarkets moving to only having bagged, not loose. Vote with your wallet. If you go into Tesco, and they don't have loose carrots, go to Sainsbury instead.Thanks for that advise, the thought would never have occurred to me otherwise. Of course things in life always involve just one variable. Silly me. T he fact that one supermarket only sells some things one way, and another supermarket might have the same problem with something else. Or of course perhaps one of them is within a 5 minute stroll, and the other needs to be driven to. But hell no, life never involves multiple variables...... So better still, why don't they all put dates on their packaging, and sell the majority of veg loose, at least as an option. Oh, the problem probably has little to do with the packaging in this case, given that they get removed from said packaging once they reach chez moi
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Post by bracknellboy on Feb 22, 2024 14:56:34 GMT
Most of us know what a manky potato/carrot/aubergine looks like. However for me that isn't the point. I can't tell how long something has likely got before it starts to be manky. Dates on packaged veg mean I can buy the longest dated available, and not buy if it is too short dated for its likely use, and thereby minimise food waste at home. Supermarkets that are removing food dates are transferring food waste from the store to the home. Their motive is to reduce their wastage - both for publicity and cost reasons - and shift the burden elsewhere. They use the "we're doing it to reduce food waste by idiots that can't tell a date from a state" as a smokescreen. The coding systems are not all obvious. My only regular places are Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys. The latter kept dates on longer than the former, but have now also removed on many items. I've not figured their system out. Oh, my local Tesco's no longer sells carrots individually. Only in plastic wrapped bags of 1kg. Undated. The last two packs I've bought, 3/4 of both have ended up on the composter because they've gone manky in a few days. In a household that tries to avoid food waste, that's disgraceful. My Tesco carrots have a B20 on them, so they seem to use the A, B, C system. Bought last week and stored in the fridge they look fine at the minute. Tesco's does use an A,B,C xx system. From what I've been able to tell, the xx at the least increments with time. Although its taken some time to be fairly confident in that. Therefore picking the 'most recent' is not that difficult. Especially if like me you have no shame whatsoever on lifting up the topmost crate to compare with the one underneath.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Feb 22, 2024 20:36:14 GMT
My Tesco carrots have a B20 on them, so they seem to use the A, B, C system. Bought last week and stored in the fridge they look fine at the minute. Tesco's does use an A,B,C xx system. From what I've been able to tell, the xx at the least increments with time. Although its taken some time to be fairly confident in that. Therefore picking the 'most recent' is not that difficult. Especially if like me you have no shame whatsoever on lifting up the topmost crate to compare with the one underneath. Absolutely no shame. 
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 23, 2024 16:45:44 GMT
I've never thrown away a single piece of supermarket vegetation in my life. If it looks a bit manky, goes in the curry. If there's too much, make something and put it in the freezer. I agree with the supermarkets pushing their food waste problems on to the customers. There is too much whining that someone should do something, but there's nothing the little guy can do. Just scrape the mouldy bits off.
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Post by mikeb on Feb 25, 2024 20:00:00 GMT
I've noticed that a lot of pre-packaged veg doesn't have any date on. I'm intelligent and competent enough to know what a manky potato looks like without having to look at the packaging. Oh, my local Tesco's no longer sells carrots individually. Only in plastic wrapped bags of 1kg. Undated. The last two packs I've bought, 3/4 of both have ended up on the composter because they've gone manky in a few days. In a household that tries to avoid food waste, that's disgraceful. Can you freeze them? When you grow your own carrots/parsnips, a) they don't come with dates on at all, and b) the whole year's delivery turns up at once. ZERO chance they will keep until next year  So, wash/peel/slice/bag/freeze is my solution. No reason why you can't do the same with supermarket veg (e.g. the Xmas 10Kg pack of carrots for 2p offers).
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Post by bracknellboy on Feb 25, 2024 20:31:28 GMT
Tesco's does use an A,B,C xx system. From what I've been able to tell, the xx at the least increments with time. Although its taken some time to be fairly confident in that. Therefore picking the 'most recent' is not that difficult. Especially if like me you have no shame whatsoever on lifting up the topmost crate to compare with the one underneath. Absolutely no shame. This afternoon involved lifting up TWO layers of crates to get to the most recent/longest dated sweetcorn (on the cob, obviously). Still no shame.
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Post by daveb on Feb 28, 2024 20:44:01 GMT
Absolutely no shame. This afternoon involved lifting up TWO layers of crates to get to the most recent/longest dated sweetcorn (on the cob, obviously). Still no shame. Sweetcorn in February?? Where the blue blazes has that been flown in from? And is the environmental harm from flying corn round the world more or less than chucking out the odd floppy carrot?
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point if the code is that simple to decode.
So, wash/peel/slice/bag/freeze is my solution. No reason why you can't do the same with supermarket veg (e.g. the Xmas 10Kg pack of carrots for 2p offers).