Use them to stretch your food budget
Deciphering Expiration Dates
Don’t waste good food
We talk a lot about ways you can save on groceries (keep reading to find out which warehouse club has the best prices). But one simple way to cut your food budget is to make what you already have last longer.
Sure, you say, except that food has an expiration date. And no, we don’t want you eating food that’s gone bad, because then you end up with a medical bill to treat food poisoning — #FrugalityFail.
But the reality is that we toss a lot of perfectly good food in this country out of blind loyalty to the dates printed on food packaging. We’ll help you decipher them so you can avoid wasting food unnecessarily.
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