Weetabix? Yes, my complaint exactly. The flavor is fine but if you don’t bolt the whole biscuit down in 10 seconds it’s just mush. Still looking for what I call Shredded Wheat, which apparently is now a Kelloggs product. Kind of an extruded construction.
Buy the Sainsbuy’s version they were waterproof from my memory growing up.
About as digestable 
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At my last place of work, a colleague would offer me food years past its prime.
The record was a 14yo Pot Noodle.
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No problem, same answer as above, even bacteria wouldnt go near it 
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I often shop at NOZ, unusual food and drink items, sometimes out of date.
I thought it was illegal to sell out of date items.
Try telling that to Carrefour. I was in our local one last week and they had pork filet mignon in a fridge as you walk in marked at 50% off with a use by date 3 days before. I think they meant the product as well as the price was 50% off - it stank.
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Mustn’t confuse BBF dates and use by dates.
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I also read somewhere that the maximum reduction permitted was 30%.
But that may have been in the Connexion…
Normally the maximum reduction is 34%. This was definitely 50% (yellow CF reduction sticker)
I got 50% reduction on an out of date pool chemical in Cash piscine recently. Of course it doesnt go out of date but thats what the sticker said so who am I to argue
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As I am desperately spending my millions to rob half the successors, money reductions do not come into the equation for me. All I want is, like @Nunthewiser, Shedded Wheat, good, wholesome crunchy stuff but I can’t find it anywhere.
It is available on Amazon France I think at about 13 quid a box but that is a bit steep, even for me. 
Well, unlike Weetabix, it does stay whole in the bowl. 
My tutor at Catering College - a very funny man called Andrew Ray - reckoned BBE/Use By etc. were there simply to un-nerve the buying public. He said the only one needed was ‘Fatal After…’
He also said (this was about cooking meat) “If you can get near it, you can cook it. If you can cook it, you can eat it.” he never said you would enjoy it, mind you !
I do have a theory (which is mine, not Miss Ann Elk’s) that the air in the French countryside carries more airborn bacteria than my kitchen was generally subjected to in 50 years of living in Liverpool or Birmingham. I remember open jars of jam, discovered hiding in the back of the cupboard, were perfectly usable 6 months to a year later, whereas here the jar I am currently (and daily) working my way through will produce a flora which would gladden Alexander Flemming inside 6 days even if kept in the fridge !
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I live within walking distance of a Lidl an Aldi and an ELeclerc so I frequently go walking to any one of these early in the day.
Until about 6 months ago, Lidl was discounting 30% on its out of date items, but now they have switched to 25%. This particular Lidl is small and I think corporate Lidl pushes a lot of stuff to them (e.g. American week, Italian week) and they just have to move it along even though it may still be good for a long, long time. I have seen some meats reduced to 1 euro that were just out of date, but that is unusual.
Leclerc seems to go to 30% off as does Aldi. I have noticed that Grand Frais frequently discounts to 50%- I always check their old olives…how bad can they be a few days older?
We bought jars of locally produced jam that goes mouldy in a couple of weeks in the fridge, after taking back to the UK - this is an unusual experience because jam lasts decades before it decays under normal circumstances.
Which in itself is pretty concerning. The sugar is a huge part of the preserving process, do the labels show a different level of sugar (or type)
TBH I’ve not investigated (I don’t eat jam) but should check. I’m not even sure how much sugar normally goes into jam.