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Hi. We all do it right. You pull the milk or the egg from the fridge, you see the date printed on the label and it's past. So what do you do? You toss it out. It's gross eating food after the date. But turns out that food may be perfectly good, perfectly safe, and we're checking thousands of dollars of food away for no reason no more. We're about to crack the code on those confusing food dates and save you some money. Uh huh. Go to the grocery store and those date stamps are on just about everything. Sell by Best Buy used by so many of us treated like a firm expiration date. If it's passed, the date expired. Expired, expired. Dump it. In fact, we throw out up to £400 of food per person per year, much of it still good. What does that cost you for an average family of four? That's $1800 every single year. But guess what? The National Resources Defense Council says those dates have nothing to do with safety, and the FDA responsible for food safety doesn't even regulate the dates on those labels. Experts say it's all about marketing to get you to chuck food to buy more food. But they say it has nothing to do with food safety. They say the dates on these products have more to do with peak freshness, a date the manufacturers come up with when their product tastes best. But again, nothing to do with safety. And you'd be surprised how long you can keep this stuff. So I've been a an array of products here, from dairy to eggs to crackers. Oh yeah, we're going there with Mayo. Let's first start with the milk. According to multiple food safety agencies, once you open milk, it lasts 4 to 7 days past. It's printed date. If unopened. Whole milk lasts 5 to 7 days. After. What about eggs? You can use eggs. Get this 3 to 5 weeks after you bought them. And if you lose track of time, there's actually a really cool test you can do at home to see if your eggs are still edible. So just grab a bowl of cold water just like this and grab an egg. Drop it into the cold water. Nice and easy. This is what you want to see the egg on its side, falling right to the bottom and staying on the bottom. That means the egg is all good now. If the egg does this, if it stands up like this upright and it's still on the bottom still good, you should probably eat it soon. The way you know the egg is bad is if it floats to the top. So if the egg floats to the top like this and sits there, chuck it now to your cabinets. Pasta noodles. The last 1 to 2 years after cereal and crackers unopened, sitting in your pantry 9 to 12 months after the date. If you open them and store them properly, like closing the bags up and clipping it shut, you can eat these up to six months later. Yeah, they may be stale, but remember, it has nothing to do with safety. This next one is a big one. Condiments, mustard, ketchup and the mother lode of sell by date Fear Nao Catch up last for a year after the date. If you open it, use it within six months of opening mustard unopened last two years past its date open to use it within a year. And Mayo will last unopened for 3 to 6 months past the date. If you open it, it still lasts 2 to 3 months. Yeah. One other item I want to mention baby formula. Even those dates on the packaging aren't what you think. Passing the date on formula just means the nutritional value starts decreasing. Nothing to do with the safety itself. For all the items we mentioned, plus more food experts say the smell test is best may not be scientific, but we all know it works to get a with and it smells bad. Get rid of it. We have all the information for all of this up on our website right now, Ross and reports dot com back to you.