Don't throw your food away: it's still safe to eat after the "use-by" date...

My supper looks absolutely normal — a ready-made pasta meal with a salad of tomatoes and rocket, and a bread roll, then chocolate cornflake cake for dessert. It looks fine, tastes fine and, most important, 24 hours after eating it, I feel fine.

This is remarkable — because all the items I consumed were two weeks past their ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates. I bought them on April 29, and ate them on May 16.

Had I followed the labels, I’d have had just a few days to eat this food after buying it. In fact, all but some raw chicken were fine to eat up to a week after their date stamps — and some were still edible another week after that. More...

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