We have a friend who throws food away when it reaches its 'Best before' date. As she is now in her 60s I very much doubt she will be convinced to change now. I wonder how my Gran, and my mother managed to get to their mid 80s without the Nanny State!
My RTBCs are my coum cyclamen are in flower, along with my winter flowering clematis and winter flowering honeysuckle. I have cut a few sprigs of the honeysuckle to enjoy its perfume indoors. The garlic are growing well and the globe artichoke have appeared again, I thought I had lost them. The agapanthus have started showing new leaves, the daffodils are showing and the mulberry has lots of new buds so Spring is on the way. Yeah!
I have been hospitalised with food poisoning and it is not an occurrence I would willingly repeat. Thus in our household we are very vigilant about best before and use by dates but, through effective larder and fridge management, very, very rarely throw food out.
I think I once read that about 30% of food bought in the UK is binned, uneaten, because of over-ordering. That is not something we are guilty of.
Easy as it is to mock the Nanny State, I wonder how high incidences of food poisoning were 60+ years ago. Health and safety regulations have certainly had a huge, positive impact on deaths and injuries in many work environments.
I've known milk go off BEFORE the use by date. Should I have carried on drinking it? or just use common sense ( increasingly uncommon in many these days ) If you need a use by date on a bag of carrots or a cauliflower or a pack of bananas, you really need to take a long hard look at yourself.
I've known milk go off BEFORE the use by date. Should I have carried on drinking it? or just use common sense ( increasingly uncommon in many these days ) If you need a use by date on a bag of carrots or a cauliflower or a pack of bananas, you really need to take a long hard look at yourself.
I think the point is not to blindly follow dates on food packaging, particularly 'Best before' dates. Use your common sense. 'Best before' on potatoes? Really!!
If you need a use by date on a bag of carrots or a cauliflower or a pack of bananas, you really need to take a long hard look at yourself.
Indeed. I should post a photo of my 'banana project'. I like my bananas on the greener side of ripe, so I normally purchase them that way. I bought a little bag which were obviously a little too green, and they still hadn't changed colour after two weeks. I even opened one to see what it was like. Like concrete is the answer. I decided to leave them and see what happened, and it's become a running joke in the house now.
I think we're currently at around 8 weeks - I've lost track. I should really put them in the compost bin now....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Britain’s former world tennis Number 1, Andy Murray, was among the more prominent critics, retweeting Farage’s video with Djokovic’s family and asking him to “please record the awkward moment when you tell them you’ve spent most of your career campaigning to have people from eastern Europe deported”.
Found my missing parcel - on my next door neighbour's doorstep! It's been there since last Wednesday, I think they must be away. I was able to check where it was by looking at the delivery photo on the Hermes website.
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Easy as it is to mock the Nanny State, I wonder how high incidences of food poisoning were 60+ years ago. Health and safety regulations have certainly had a huge, positive impact on deaths and injuries in many work environments.
If you need a use by date on a bag of carrots or a cauliflower or a pack of bananas, you really need to take a long hard look at yourself.
I should post a photo of my 'banana project'. I like my bananas on the greener side of ripe, so I normally purchase them that way. I bought a little bag which were obviously a little too green, and they still hadn't changed colour after two weeks. I even opened one to see what it was like. Like concrete is the answer.
I decided to leave them and see what happened, and it's become a running joke in the house now.
I think we're currently at around 8 weeks - I've lost track. I should really put them in the compost bin now....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Britain’s former world tennis Number 1, Andy Murray, was among the more prominent critics, retweeting Farage’s video with
Djokovic’s family and asking him to “please record the awkward moment when you tell them you’ve spent most of your career campaigning to have people from eastern Europe deported”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/10/andy-murray-trolls-nigel-farage-over-djokovic-visa-row
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was able to check where it was by looking at the delivery photo on the Hermes website.