would you eat peanut butter if it expired in May 2017? i wont but i wanted to make a peanut butter sandwich lol

Food won't expire that quickly---unless it's fresh foods like meat, dairy and produce. The dates stamped on foods are there to make you "think" you mut use it fast or throw it away. The food industry depends on customers always buying. So they can keep on alwasy priducing. To encourage a constant turn over on your pantry shelve they stamp dates on foods to encourage to throw away the old--so you buy the new. But it's rarely if ever "bad" when you do.