Out of date meat products from supermarket; worrying.

GagaJo: here’s an idea, make meatballs out of combined lamb and pork mince. I always make mine like that with a couple ounces breadcrumbs, seasoning, some grated onion and bind together with beaten egg. You might have a lot but you can freeze them in portions either from raw, or bake meatballs in oven for 10 mins then cool and freeze. Just drop them in a saucepan of sauce and you get a quick meal.

One of my pots of yogurt was put in a bag with two big bottles of milk and the carton got squashed and cracked and I got a bag full of loose yogurt. I phoned them (Tesco) and they refunded straight away. No problem.

My bin would be doing overtime---I'll stick to the local butcher and wait for the time when I can choose my own stuff from the supermarket. Thank God I'm reasonably fit to do so.

the longest use-by date!
Blondie Yes, but if you are bunging it into your deep freezer at -20C where it could keep forever (almost), how relevant does use-by date become?

Sainsburys always deliver short dated goods in a blue carrier bag. Ive shopped on line with them for years and Ive never had any out of date foods delivered. Sainsburys customer care service centre is open, most big companies now do not acceppt calls to their individual shops.

GagaJo
Could you make a cheesecake? Just a thought.

I've never done online grocery shopping and after reading some of this, I'm quite glad. I'm quite picky about what I buy and have been known to rake through every pack of something on the shelf (I'm talking fresh/chilled stuff here) to find one with the longest use-by date and which I like the look of. The supermarket staff who pick the stuff for home delivery just seem to pick the first thing they see and chuck it in the bags.

My supermarket delivery came today. I think the delivery guy (or could be whoever puts the orders in the van) has mixed up some bags of mine and some bags of someone else's. We've got some posh food and are missing some of our basics.

I'll be reporting the stuff that is not there as missing but can't send back the posh stuff because they're not allowing returns at the moment. No idea what I'm going to do with double cream and mascarpone although I will enjoy the seriously expensive butter and the lamb mince. Not so keen on the pork mince they sent tho.

Greeneyedgirl, I was just about to suggest social media to jellybeanjean.
My daughter went on to the Co-op Facebook page when her complaint was ignored. She soon got a response after her post was commented on by several people.
The supermarkets dont like being criticised in public.

I have found the best way to alert supermarkets to problems just now is to post concern on Twitter. That makes them respond.

I had never shopped for groceries online but have managed over the past weeks by hovering like a vulture to get three delivery slots from Tesco (could not even sign up to all the other supermarkets). First one was good with all products with reasonable use by dates, second had a couple of very near use by dates and the third delivery was not good at all. Although nothing was out of date many of the perishable products were to be used within one or two days. I put whatever I could in the freezer (all the meat products had to be frozen) and tried to use everything else as quickly as possible. I'm not fanatical about dates as I prefer to use common sense, look and smell and care when cooking. OH was decidedly unimpressed and even offered to shop for us (rather he didn't) so I think I will choose my time carefully and shop at a small supermarket locally from now on.

When I get my email on the morning of delivery from Sainsbury’s it will tell me if anything has a short date on it.
I have never had anything out of date.
You cannot send anything back with the driver now but there is a number to ring for a refund.
Today my order has baby new potatoes with a short shelf life.
I shall just use them tonight.

Elegran, I'm quite sure, and it's Sainsbury's. Yes, I do know the difference between use by and best before; these are meat products!

Jellybeanjean Which supermarket? You don't specify. Whenever I have received supermarket orders (over years) I have been told by the deliveryman whenever things have a short use-by date, let alone are out-of-date. I could refuse them. I have never ever had anything that was out of date.

Are you quite sure that the things were past their use-by date, and that what you saw printed on them wasn't their best-before date? There is a difference! If it said "use-by" it should not be sold, but if it said "best-before" it will actually be fine to eat for a while after that - not dangerous.

I had a cheesecake sent from an online shop from Tesco a few weeks ago that was 4 days out of date. Trying to get an email address to complain was a nightmare. finally got one and a reply, only to say that under these trying times they were unable to comment on certain requests! ( not that I requested anything, just wanted an appology and perhaps a refund. I did send a photo of the box showing the date) Only time this has happened thank goodness.