Do you find yourself digging through packaged salads in the produce sections to find the latest “ best before” date? Then you get it home and after a few days it looks bad before the date. Or you have a half -gallon of milk that is past the date but its still seems ok. What do you do??
These are frustrating, if not expensive situations. We have tried to spell out some helpful guidelines in our First Kitchen DVD. For example, milk usually stays fresh up to a week after the sell by date if it has been handled properly. Yogurt is probably a couple of weeks.
Here is another perspective from a packaging expert. He says, “ Ignore expiration dates, and use your eyes and nose to determine what’s fresh enough to consume”. Check out his article, Expiration Dates on Labels Only Cause Confusion. I think he makes some valid points.
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