@whichuk: The big supermarket chains have removed ‘best before’ dates from many of their pre-packaged fresh fruit and vegetables to try to reduce food waste - so if you’re after a pack of tomatoes or a punnet of grapes with a long shelf life, you may need to decipher the code on the packaging.  At Asda and Tesco, look for a letter followed by a number: ‘A’ is January, ‘B’ is February, ‘C’ is March and so on, while the number is the day of the month. For example, the best-before date of an item with the code ‘I27’ is 27 September. Sainsbury’s codes begin with ‘J’ and end with ‘S’, standing for J Sainsbury, and contain the date in the middle. So the best-before date of an item with the code ‘J0910S’ is 9 October. Morrisons simply uses the first letter and day of the month, so a product with the code ‘S27’ has a best-before date of 27 September.  #food #foodprices #supermarket #supermarkettiktok #foodshop #foodshopping #shopping #foodies #Foodie #FoodTok

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Sunday 20 July 2025 09:57:03 GMT