Best before and sell by date are two different things. Just because it’s past its best before date doesn’t mean the food is bad. Tinned food has the date because it’s a legal requirement but the food is perfectly fine as long as it’s not been punctured.

From the US here. I talked to someone from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) last week who basically said the best by dates are arbitrary and that they are safe for years as long as the can integrity is good. I have been eating food past those dates for years and haven't died yet. We have bargain stores that buy out the foods near or past the dates to sell at reduced prices. I love those stores!

nothing wrong with a) tins a few months past the best before b)meat in tins (better than fresh at times!) maybe that is a challenge for you- eat only things in tins and/or past best before dates! Gotta prevent food waste!!!! :)

Tinned food is fine for a couple of years after it's date. Just make sure can isn't dented, rusty or looks like it's swollen. Same with dried stuff, lentils and pulses are fine for years

Yeah you missed out with the chickpeas. They were a bargain & if the tin was in good nick would have been fine. Great challenge again. Love the content, keep it coming 🙂👍

C'mon, Sam. BEST BEFORE dates are not a warning that the food has expired and will kill you. They are put on everything, including soap and plastic bags where I live (no longer in the UK)! Best before is a guideline. We didn't have them 40 years ago and cases of botulism or salmonella from such foods was a rare event. The thing you DO need to watch is the USE BY date. This is more often on fresh foods - meat, dairy, perishable items. They are important as the longer such foods sit, the more its condition alters with the growth of bacterium, etc. I look for items that are on sale because they've reached or are just past their best before date - because otherwise they will end up in a landfill - and using them within a month of purchase means they haven't lost any nutritional value. Honey has a best before date - it NEVER goes bad. Salt has a best before date - and unless it gets damp, it doesn't go bad or breed bacterium! I know someone who ate food from cans (no rust, no dents, no deterioration in the packing integrity, stored in a cool, dry cellar for almost 50 years) that had been bought and stored for an emergency - and they are still happy, healthy and intact! It saved them a considerable amount of money, too - only needing fresh and perishable foods for many weeks. The very fact that the shop alerts you to that information shows that they ARE checking dates and being responsible!

Canned food is good indefinitely as long as the can isn't pierced or blown. Just for future reference. Love your videos 😁

There's a very big difference between best before dates and use by dates .......besf before is perfectly fine to eat after the date especially with Tinned stuff ...it's fine for years

We've just lost our Pound Stretcher and I can't say it's a big loss, it's quite a weird shop. Best thing about it was it had a brand of cat food sometimes that you don't normally see in stores. Good video! I really enjoy seeing all of the challenges you do

Love these. Thanks for sharing.

Maybe a microwave company needs to sponsor you and give you a machine and have you make a microwave series.

Another enjoyable video Sam! 😀 I'm sure in addition to your basic salt, pepper and oil, you should be able to include sugar & milk? I think most people would have this on hand even if just adding to tea/coffee? I love those pancake shake bottles!

Love watching these videos so entertaining I used to know what it was like to only live on a small budget for food each week and having to be creative in what I was making to make food last me a week £15 food shop and a big use for creativity got me by

FYI it takes far, FAR more than a week to get Scurvy.

Love theses videos❤

It's only a Best before date on the chickpeas, they would be fine for a while yet

If Best Before tinned food is out of date it will be safe to eat as long as the tin is not compromised in any way.

If the rules allow use of pantry: my grandma used to serve us rolled up pancakes with cinnamon/ sugar on the inside😍

The canning proccess gives most things an extraordinary shelf life, Ive eaten a year over date can of mixed beans and no problem at all. Sadly not the best place to shop for a challenge.

Sweet new vid mate

When I make pancakes I always add sugar in the pancake mix before frying.

Once you've done every shop at least once, you should do a tier list of the best shops for shopping on a budget :)

There was a Poundstrecher where I live but it closed down cause half... wait no 90% of the stuff they had was either months out of date or looked like someone threw it into a skip from the eiffle tower due to how damaged it was, the only thing that I bought from them was some ball point pens as it was the only thing not broken, it's now my town's second B&M store

You do know foods still good after the best before date. There are places that just sell out of date things

The microwave stuff is also boil in the bag.

Getting close to 9k subs now Sam! Hopefully be getting up to 10k sharpish!

When we make pasta bake we put smoked sausage or hotdogs in

I'm not sure if you live near a Heron Foods but you should do the challenge there!

I like the Rice and beans it's looks a nice thing to try

Can goods, can last well past the best buy date. Years actually as long as the can is not dented.

Here in Bangkok / Thailand i can easily eat good fresh 3 meals OUT a day for 2 days for 10£ incl fresh fruit smoothie and icecoffees =)

Another fab video! Also i think you maybe mixed up use by date with best before. Best before is when the food will be safe to eat but may not be at its best and should be fine. Whereas, use by date you should never eat :) might help you for next challenge and i look forward to whats next 😊

I've eaten tinned food that is 2 years out of date and it's been fine. I get nervous with jars though!

Its amazing how you can make meals on a tight budget, just need imagination and a few cupboard ingredients. I dont understand why you couldn't use milk if already in your fridge? Well done, you managed it

If ur doing food challengers then at least have the knowledge between best before and sell by dates! Foods past their sell by dates are fine to eat. That's why there are lots of cheap food online sites now! Jezzzz 🙄

Approved Food are you choice for items close to or after their BB dates and enjoy the deliciousness

Wow, a tin of chickpeas one month past their BBE, however could you eat such a thing, you might just die on the spot

90% of comments: "There is a big difference between Best Before and Use By dates". Me: "Sam was talking about protein and just skipped over the pet food isle. I'm sure there would have been some tinned meat there." (I'm joking, please do not eat the pet food!)

It seems in pound stretcher. Nothing ever moves off the shelf’s and all looks old

Shops are alowd to sell past best before but not use by.

Why would you go to Poundstretcher for a food shop ?? It is NOT a store known for selling food .............

❤❤so can you do €10 Tesco value range

My local Poundstretcher has trippled their prices and they wonder why there's no-one shopping there now. I know a lot of companies have upped their prices but 3x? Something that used to cost under £1 now is cloer to 4. When you can go to Home Bargains for less, why bother going there?

Can anyone work out how much the planet proteins are please, they are great with tuna. Ive never been in poundland, thou daughter says nothing is a pound .

Is there such a thing as 'sell by date'? Thought it was use by and best before?

A great video, I think the most challenging yet.

13:38 same

Isn’t it crazy how they were selling expired food? Geeeez. Why not do challenge where for the first week of the month you spend fifty pounds, then ten pounds a week for the next three weeks just to see if you can build a decent pantry of different things to get you through the month.

This is the equivalent of making a video saying i am going to see how many days i can live off of food from Shoe Zone

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Allow me to educate you... J. Sainsbury's came up with a radical new concept in 1974. It was not a concept to Protect their customers from death. It was a concept to increase sales, and subsequently waste. It was so successful every other retail chain (to the utter distain of bin men, and subsequently Greta thunberg) adopted the concept. As you're clearly sold on the concept, im guessing you're a millennial or not that much older!! Oh, i forgot to tell you J. Sainsbury's 1974 concept... J. Sainsbury's INVENTED the Best before date!!!

You look and sound like u could be a great presenter for children's TV like cbeebies

Hi how are you doing

That cake was flat at a pancake 😂

How long can you live? Do you mean before the food runs out, or before it kills you?

4:33 those who know know come on sam ❤

Those chickpeas will be fine still in 5yrs

Sam Can you please do "How long can I live on £10 at the co-op" video

The dates on the cans will have been best before dates so you would probably have been fine 😊.

Have you tried to live on magic bags for 2 days

Another interesting entertaining video 🤩Thank you. Confession:😇 guilty of being greedy to have more videos released more often😈

Pound Stretcher?? Didn't the company go bust years ago? Someone has bought the trade name and judging from what I see not a UK citizen. Shocking, what a crime.

Poundstretcher is such a weird place - simultaneously scabby yet overpriced. Almost every item is cheaper in in supermarkets, pound shops and places like B&M and Home Bargains. God knows how they are still going

are you related to Black Belt Barrister?

I think poundstrends now is expensive 😢

Heron foods?

i made the likes counter change from 222 to 223 🤭im so naughty

Can they give you a microwave

Close down poundstretchers

Whinging

Simon from the Inbetweeners on his day off:

It’s not like poundland. Will agree it’s like B&M and HomeBargains