Don’t ditch best before dates!

Perfect plums, mangoes like sunshine, strawberries the size of golf balls . . . I adore Marks & Spencer fruit — so much so, that it accounts for around 70 per cent of my weekly grocery bill. But, alas, I might have to switch shops, for M&S plans to remove the ‘best before’ dates from 300 lines of fruit and veg. this is madness. Like most savvy shoppers I reach to the back of the shelf to get the pack with the latest possible date. Who wants strawberries that start growing fur within minutes of getting home? Whatever gooseberry fool thought this up needs to think again.