'Take some power back': Industry experts break down the ins and outs of best before dates on groceries

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Industry experts are offering tips on how to navigate the labels in your fridge to cut down on the amount of food you're throwing away.

At Pepper's Foods in Saanich, some customers are conditioned to lean on best before labels when buying their groceries.

Chef David Lang, chair of culinary arts at Camosun College, agrees that it's OK to keep food past its best before date. Expiration dates, however, are different. They apply to foods like baby formula, liquid meal replacements and nutritional supplements."It’s not that it turns into poison after, it’s just that you’re not getting the nutrients you need," said Nikkel.

 

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we will all have to be a smart shopper , look for special and deals , don’t just but because you are there already ,

The only thing making my life utterly unaffordable are government taxes… carbon tax, gst, gas tax, municipal tax, provincial tax, federal tax on and on and on. As govt workers and elected get raises

Tip number One; eat your leftovers. Just sayin.

Weird question when people are skipping meals or going hungry due to cost. Confident if you speak to food banks they'll talk of the raise in people attending

the best way price control inforced by the government

This makes me sad. Follow his idea, inflation & price will go down :

Toilet paper that was $7.99 pre-pandemic is $25 now where I live (Canada).

Tax the rich and redistribute their money.

You need to go back to your grandmothers cooking. Make a big meal on Sunday and get creative with the leftovers on the next two days. Bake your own cookies. Stop buying processed food and buy real food. Make a salad instead of buying it in a bag.

Self check out.

Look for sales and flyers. Use coupons shop around.

Preorder my groceries in an app, then pick up. It’s the little extras that aren’t on the list that always end up costing! This way there’s no temptation :)

Flipp app is helpful!

Do what I do. Always cook in bulk. Make giant pots of stew/spaghetti sauce/soup. Less meat: Only buy meat if it’s on BOGO or major holiday where it’s cheapest.

Shoplift

Go to Superstore. Collect optimum points. Look in the flyers. Canned veg is still decent. Get protein at Walmart. Constantly look through flyers. Don’t goto saveonfoods there prices are ridiculous. Even with all the corners being cut. Our food budget has doubled.

Get rid of the carbon tax .. immediately. Prices will drop pretty quick .

Charge grocery stores for food waste.

Nationalize necessities Food production, grocery stores, utilities, energy, etc

Make it expensive to be rich by targeting their infrastructure

Reweard grocery stores that have lower prices. Make sure to buy the sale items only in whichever store you are in and wait to get those other items at the lower priced store. Sure we spend extra time and it might only be a couple dollars but by doing this we take the power.

Billionaires on a pile of cash: that’s your fault I guess

Eat the rich and don't read thier postmedia propaganda.

I have never had a big appetite and typically eat one meal and one or two snacks a day. I don't eat red meat. Even despite this my grocery costs are mind blowingly ridiculous. With the godawful exchange rate & inflation shopping across the border doesn't even make sense anymore.

Go through your receipts and figure out what items are not inflated. Make a list, and plan menus around those items.

Tax excessive corporate profits and the 1%.

Carnivore

I've just stopped eating food altogether at this point.

Buy less conserve more. Food waste cost billions every year. Get the stores to realize that collectively consumers can stop the price gouging. Time to take control of our lives.

To start you can tell the grocery stores to stop ripping us off .

Well we could stop giving CEOs millions of dollars in raises

Shop at American owned grocery chains like Walmart and Costco.

Open up grocery retail to foreign competition (trader joes/Albertsons etc) Dismantle the ridiculous supply management nonsense. There, fixed the problem

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