[mountainmist]

I want to use up any storage foods that don't have an Expiration Date plainly printed and easy to find and read.

I am seriously irritated with food manufacturers who are using unintelligible codes instead of ready to read dates, and so when these non-user friendly brands are used up, I'm replacing those brands only with food that is plainly dated.

In a little bit of surfing I did the other day, I came across several accounts of how many grocery stores so rarely actually stock their canned food to make positive that the freshesh goes in back -- I did not know that, so I cannot rely on whenever I purchased any of that "code dated" food - for all I know, it was already expired when I bought it.

I'm seriously irritated about this, because if we have some major emergency, if we are quarantined, or told to shelter in place --- how will it be for people who open up stale canned goods? And don't even know it? That's NOT the time I want to play around with my family's health, although NO time is any good for that.

It's possible that I'll simply find all those canned goods with the strange codes and give them to a food shelf --- they MUST have the ability to read those codes, and then I'll simply have them GONE, where they won't RE-irritate me every time I happen to look at them.