BBE dates dont suggest you will be ill or worse if you continue eating the stuff after the date though, it's just a suggestion that it will be better quality if consumed before that date...I take Use By dates more serious.

I am very cautious when it comes to food in general though and must admit I do throw a lot of bread out, I don't like eating it if it's been opened for more than a day and tend to throw the rest of the loaf out to the birds and open fresh stuff.

And no I don't think it's a con.

Don't you just hate it when you buy a bunch of bananas that are green and not ripe enough to eat. So you wait a few days and a few days more for them to yellow and ripen.

Then you turn your back on them for 5 minutes and hey presto they are black and rotting...!!

What the hell's that all about.....???

I always tend to buy thing I'm going to eat in at least a week. I don't do mass shops for the month, find it a bit pointless.

:laugh: I've done that, when desperate for bread to dip in my soup and couldn't be bothered going the shop.