Consipiracy Theory - expiry dates

I think that food manufacturers must LOVE the new expiry dates on everything from crackers to toothpaste. Okay, sure they have to be a bit more accountable for delivery times, and may lose some product sales when consumers don't buy expired products - although I've found out that those expired foods are just sent to liquidators where people don't seem to care about expiry dates.

But I also think that they benefit greatly from these dates. Personally, when it says "best before" I take that as a suggestion, so if I go a few days after the date, big deal. Yes, "expiry dates" mean a whole different thing.

But JP and people like him, seem to take these dates very seriously. In fact, just the other day, I happened to have a bag (or two) or tamari chips beside my computer. Sure they were a little old, but I was fine with it.

Then suddenly they disappeared.

I looked on the floor to see if they had fallen and searched to see if one of the dogs stole a bag and hid the evidence, but they were nowhere to be found. So then I had no choice but to ask him (you'll find I am and extremely curious sort). Yup, he decided to care enough about my health to check the date on my snack food and threw them out because they were past the date stamped on the bag.

One more happy food marketer loving this great little scam. They don't care much about my health, just as long as I am a mouth eating their food. But they looove to sell their products!

So not only do you have to pick up every item at the store to check fat content and calories, you now have to check for dates. I really don't understand why more people don't just shop the perimeter of the store for all the ingredient type food and skip all the pre-made cookies and crackers because they're becoming a lot of work to purchase. And then to burn off those calories too.

In knitting news, no progress on the sock, just working on the shrug. Not feeling to well the last 2 days and had a big deadline at work.

Tonight it's snowing Way Out Here, so all I want to do is hide under the covers. And knit.