Laxie Goes Primetime

[Laxie]

Truth is:

Men with a woman in their life haven't a clue - they only eat stuff in date because the woman in question will throw out stuff past its sell by date.  And single men put the sore belly down to alcohol.....

C, C always C - unless you're skint, why would you take the risk?

utter, utter nonsense. how do you cope with fruit/veg from markets or cakes from the cake shop that don't come printed with best before dates? common sense would be my guess

If there's no sell by date, it has to be common sense.  But common sense would also say to me that the date is there for a reason.......

Boldie has a BBE date - I'm sure it's something like 1982.

shhh, don't make MrsB throw me out.

Jack's threatening to stick a 'best before' date on himself to see will I toss him out when the time comes. 

As for the question...I'd be a B kinda girl at best and C when I'm in one of my over efficient modes.  Jack is very deffo an A man.  I've had to toss things with military precision (ie - when he's not looking).  Been caught once or twice which caused the debate you lot are carrying on with now. 

Now then, forgetting food for a minute.  Kin has nearly hit on my next one...what would you lot say about medicines and the like with dates on them?

[kinboshi]

Depends on what the medicine is.  I don't really take much in the way of medicine, but I wouldn't be worried about taking a paracetamol or indigestion tablet if it was a year out of date.

[boldie]

I think the pills I took were Solpadol 500mg. Over a year out of date and absolutely fine.

I tend to trust the boys and girls at Harvard and they agree..it's fine

http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update1103a.shtml

[Claw75]

definitely A for the food, particularly with 'best before' rather that 'use by' dates.  The only reason they're on there is because they have to be by law. A lot of stuff with long best before dates that won't actually go off will simply be repackaged once it's past the date if it's still not gone to retailers.  Certainly would have no issues eating tinned stuff, for example, well past the best before date, as long as it looks ok once i've opened it.

medicines i'd happily take within a few years of end by date.

haven't read the daily mail article about beauty products, but same as with food, you can tell if a body lotion or something has 'gone off'.  Given that I wear make up about once a month most of my stuff is years old.

[Claw75]

just reminded me - my mum gave my brother some ralgex to use at the weekend and after he'd sprayed it on he noticed the expiry date was 12/2001.  I'm gonna check to see if his leg has fallen off or anything.

[SirPerceval]

My wife works in a Brewery (I love my life)

She once phoned me up and said some bottled beer had gone "out of date" and they couldn't sell it but were offering it cheap to staff.

I bought 40 cases


p.s. option A everytime for best before

[technolog]

Oh dear, as predicted there seems to be some serious pwnage ITT.

Not sayin', just sayin'.

[mickyp]

Another day, another DIY project being researched.  This time we're looking into sorting the flat roof on the garden shed.  I've stumbled on to this stuff called EPDM rubber roof.  No worries about losing a layer of skin to hot liquids poured wrong and installation seems simple enough.  I've googled mad and bookmarked a few sites, but if anyone has personal experience using the stuff, opinions welcomed.  Be great to get the lawn mower out of the front hall and back into the shed!

This is my line of work dawn.If your only wanting to patch the roof up, this stuff may last for a couple of years max.Is it a felt flat roof at present ?

[kinboshi]

My wife works in a Brewery (I love my life)

She once phoned me up and said some bottled beer had gone "out of date" and they couldn't sell it but were offering it cheap to staff.

I bought 40 cases


p.s. option A everytime for best before

You're from Scotland, right?

[boldie]

My wife works in a Brewery (I love my life)

She once phoned me up and said some bottled beer had gone "out of date" and they couldn't sell it but were offering it cheap to staff.

I bought 40 cases


p.s. option A everytime for best before

You're from Scotland, right?

Yeah, that's why it only lasted him a week

[Laxie]

Another day, another DIY project being researched.  This time we're looking into sorting the flat roof on the garden shed.  I've stumbled on to this stuff called EPDM rubber roof.  No worries about losing a layer of skin to hot liquids poured wrong and installation seems simple enough.  I've googled mad and bookmarked a few sites, but if anyone has personal experience using the stuff, opinions welcomed.  Be great to get the lawn mower out of the front hall and back into the shed!

This is my line of work dawn.If your only wanting to patch the roof up, this stuff may last for a couple of years max.Is it a felt flat roof at present ?

It is...in theory.  Goodly bit of it not exactly functional.  End of day, the lot needs to be replaced.  Timbers as well.  Hence the rubber thing.  I'm not a rubber fetish girl, honest.  All about the roof.  Really...it is.

[kinboshi]

Another day, another DIY project being researched.  This time we're looking into sorting the flat roof on the garden shed.  I've stumbled on to this stuff called EPDM rubber roof.  No worries about losing a layer of skin to hot liquids poured wrong and installation seems simple enough.  I've googled mad and bookmarked a few sites, but if anyone has personal experience using the stuff, opinions welcomed.  Be great to get the lawn mower out of the front hall and back into the shed!

This is my line of work dawn.If your only wanting to patch the roof up, this stuff may last for a couple of years max.Is it a felt flat roof at present ?

It is...in theory.  Goodly bit of it not exactly functional.  End of day, the lot needs to be replaced.  Timbers as well.  Hence the rubber thing.  I'm not a rubber fetish girl, honest.  All about the roof.  Really...it is.

Roof fetish imo

[The_nun]

So say a jar of dip was opened with a bb4 date of 2012 but it also says on a lot of them use within 4 weeks of opening?..

[Laxie]

I always toss out after the X number of days post opening a jar if it says to.  They're generally bang on anyway and you'll notice green things growing if you try to push out the limits.

[Claw75]

what about ketchup?  that says store in the fridge and use within 6 weeks.  does anyone actually do either of those things?