sell by dates

[Scythe13]

With eggs, when they're out of the chicken, as long as they don't get too warm from the sun (just keep them in the kitchen cupboard) they'll stay good for well over a month! Eggs are usually picked within 24 hours of being laid. Then they are shipped to the egg checking company that makes sure they're clean and uncracked (they use a cool machine that scans the shell and checks for cracks...pretty cool I think) then 'lion stamped' boxed up and shipped off. Put into a warehouse then out within a week. As BP says, they can be upto a month old from chicken to shelf. So picking my own...I'm happy to let them sit in the kitchen from Jan until early March, and still be happy they're good.