For all of you who looked for best before date on a can and only found gibberish, check this site and print it. 
http://www.y2kkitchen.com/html/can_code_decoder.html
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Wow what a find thank you very much.
Think later today when it starts to rain again I use a sharpie and put "real" dates on them.
Thats what I do, but right on the lable. It's good to bring this sheet with you when you go "specials" shopping to ensure what you getting isnt going to expire next month. 😮 ,
Did you Know according to that sheet that SPAM has a shelf life of 60-96 month, its more preserved than King TUT 😆
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
aren't you the smart one....didn't think of taking the list with me for shopping
around here Spam would last a lift time...wouldn't eat it...cat food looks better lol
great find, making sure i keep that!
Thank you muchly! Very useful indeed!
I spent hours yesterday reading the Government of Canada web site on the labeling of canned foods with expiry dates. It turns out that some of the codes on the can have nothing to do with the expiry date. Which could be why it is so hard to figure out. Based on what I read or at least my understanding of what I read, if the canned food has a shelf life of longer then 90 days then by law they don't need to have an expiry date. It was suggested on the web site that if you have any questions, then contact the manufacturer about it. I spent an hour trying to find out what the code 57SN2FBNH 94FA9 meant. Some canned food manufacturers stamp a quality code rather then an expiry code.
Clever bastards aren't they, so if your buying some canned goods on sale, you dont know if you have a shelf life of 3 month or 1 week. Be sure to mark the date of purchase on cans with garbley goop on them, (un-decipherable numbers).
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
I just about threw out two cases of canned soup the other day because I discovered they had "expired" on march 30th 2014.
Just out of curiosity I did a little internet research and confirmed what I had suspected. Most canned goods (soups in this particular case) have a "Best Quality Before Date" stamped on them and are usually good almost indefinitely as long as there is no damage or swelling of the can.
Taste and Texture of food may decline over time but they will still be safe for consumption many years after the "Best Before date" stamped on them.
Glad I did a little poking around before I tossed them 🙂
DaScribbler
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