Out of date cans and packets

room512

Farway wrote: »

I'd just use them, they are only two year over the BBF date.

Tinned pots are always rubbish anyway, and Smartprice must be a bit lower down the taste chain? Chuck them in a casserole, stew etc. They will just dissolve anyway. Or fry as others have suggested

I did use tinned pots, Smartprice included, but found all of them them so awful I have not bought them for a few years and now use bog standard raw spuds

Exactly why I never used them!!!! Think I bought them as they were cheap and it'd be quicker to make potato salad (but decided I'd rather take longer and enjoy eating what I was making). Then I decided I could make spanish omelette and 2 years later still haven't got round to it. But now I'm trying to be frugal ...

bargainbetty

I've just got stuff from Approved Foods that is out of date. Knew that when I bought it. Couldn't give a stuff. Does the tin magically know that last month the tomato paste was OK, but this month it is off?

Open the tin of pots, give them a rinse under cold water, halve them and toss them in a hot frying pan with onions, bacon and garlic till the spuds are properly golden and crispy. Then never buy the damn things again.

Steve-o

Best Before date = the date after which the manufacturer thinks a food's quality will deteriorate (texture, smell, taste).

The Best Before date is a quality-guide date, nothing more; look at it, sniff it, and if it still checks out try a little taste.

With tinned food, you have to watch out for "blown" tins ('bloated' tins, where bacteria has started to grow inside), and dented tins; dented tins have a greater chance of the seals having been ruptured.

faerie~spangles

room512 wrote: »

We have lots of tins of potatoes and tomatoes in the cupboard that my OH say will be fine to eat.
The potatoes are Best before November 2010
The tomatoes are Best before September 2010
What do you reckon? I opened a tin of pots the other day and I thought they were a bit slimy but could just be me stressing as I don't think they are fit for consumption!
Thanks for your help x

OMG, how will you survive 'til the zombies find you?

castleton

I have found some tins of tuna in my cupboard that went out of date Sept 2011. Can anyone please tell me if these will still be OK to eat?

thank you

azzabazza

So long as the tin hasn't blown, I would still use them.

Ilona

I am eating JW tuna chunks in brine, out of date in June 2011. I bought a case of 48 tins, cheap because they were already out of date. Nothing wrong with them.
Ilona

Middy

My mum opened a can of anchovies earlier this year with a BB date - June 2001 and none of us became ill or died!

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zippychick

we have a thread on using out of date packets and tins - have a read and ill merge yours in with i t later

Zip