I found this great article on how to avoid stale candy by understanding the expiration dates. Here is an excerpt that is the jist of it..."For M&Ms and Mars candy, there's usually a 10 digit code of numbers and letters, but you only need to worry about the first three. The first number is the last number in the year (8 means 2008, 7 means 2007, etc) and the next two numbers stand for the week of the year (so, a number like 804 would be the fourth week of 2008: February 2008)
For Hershey's candy, there's a 2 character code for the month and year. The year is like the other code, with the number being the last number in the year, the second character is a letter that represents the month. A = January, B = February, and so on. So a code like 9A would mean that the candy expires January of 2009.
Stale candy isn't really "expired" in the sense that milk and other perishable goods "expire." In this case, the candy is merely stale and isn't as tasty as it should be. Still, why buy old candy?" article from consumerist.com.
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