It’s the confusion over expiration dates.
Most people have a very valid reason for throwing away food - they don’t want to eat any that is rotten, so they follow the dates put on the package by the manufacturer.
You can safely ignore them. The simple way to make sure your food is still fresh is to just use your funny shaped body part to find out! : )
We will have a more in depth look at food waste in our main program that should be starting a few months from now, after we get most of Framingham signed up