Out-of-Date B&B Pudding.

Sounds luscious. Glad you enjoyed it.

I used a tin of custard that was 5 years out of date the other day. Tasted fine and I’m still alive!

Glad you enjoyed it and are still here to tell the tale. Personally anything made with wet bread leaves me cold. To each their own.

I think I could have forced myself and enjoyed it!

I'm sure it was delish well done, I would have used them up too, no waste here

I use out of date eggs after doing a test on them. Always ok. So just test to see.

We eat a lot of OLIO food.

Also my 92 year old mum gives us loads of really, really, really out of date dried food and tins. (To protect herself)

We never have any ill effects and help to save the planet through no food waste.

As a result, we manage to save money and take our children and grandchildren on self catering holidays with us, which we love!

And because we are paying for the holiday home, they provide all the meals !!!!

Your b&b pud sounds delicious

The loaf of bread was bb and not use by. Unless it was covered in mould you used your loaf! Tinned items keep almost for ever. Well done in eliminating waste. Lots of companies are looking at bb dates now - I think It’s Morrison’s with milk. Just use our nose, eyes, taste and common sense.

I never chuck stuff, just because of dates. I check it's OK. Sniff test. Check it doesn't look off. Taste it (if it's not raw meat etc).

I never thought of using condensed milk - do you just whisk some eggs into it and pour over the bread n butter?

I’d have used them, too - I love using things up. One thing I actually enjoyed about the first lockdown, when supermarket shelves were often empty, was contriving nice meals out of what we had. Which included several store cupboard items 3-5 years out of date.

Personally I’d never chuck out of date dry goods, unless they smelt rancid (some things with oil content can) nor tins that are perfectly sound.

GagaJo

I never chuck stuff, just because of dates. I check it's OK. Sniff test. Check it doesn't look off. Taste it (if it's not raw meat etc).

Yep, same here! A relative told me off because the rice in my cupboard was a few months out of date! I have some salt in the cupboard which is out of date by 1 year! As it was formed a few million years ago, I don't think it is going to make much difference.

When it comes to wasting perfectly good food, Kali, common sense is sadly not exactly common.

I never throw anything out if it passes the sniff test, no matter how long ago the ‘use by’ date is. Nothing wasted here!

No waste in this household either. As long as it looks, smells and tastes OK we eat it.

I'm the world's worst chucker-outer, especially as I've got older.

My neighbour shops in M&S twice a week. She doesn’t eat enough to keep a gnat alive.
So when her food is 2 days out of date she gives it to neighbours.
Thank you very much ?

Calendargirl

Title slightly misleading. Have just polished off a rather large slice of a bread and butter pud I made yesterday. I used bread from a reduced Tesco bloomer loaf, BB date of 27th January, and a tin of condensed milk 2 years out of date. DH said at tea last night it was a bit ‘stodgy’, but managed to eat seconds.

Well, all gone now, no ill effects from the dates, it was de-licious.

Am sure some will come on to say they would have chucked the ingredients, but not me.

One of my favourites, and with condensed milk, yum. As long as the tin wasn’t rusty or dented, I would have used it.

ExDancer

I never thought of using condensed milk - do you just whisk some eggs into it and pour over the bread n butter?

I usually use evaporated milk. With the condensed, I mixed some ordinary skimmed milk in with it to slacken it off, and then beat 3 eggs (also a bargain, 20p for 6 free range large from Co-Op, another out of date item!) into the mixture and poured over the bread etc. Hardly used any sugar as the condensed is sooo sweet. Should have used more skimmed probably, as I had to agree with DH, a bit stodgy, but still yummy.

I think condensed milk goes a bit brown looking if it's very out of date but I'm sure it's still fine to use.

Don't give much credence to dates. More inclined to touch, smell and appearance in general of fresh stuff. Tins I regard as indefinite until proven otherwise on opening. Hasn't happened yet. Mind you, I always diligently seek out the dates at time of fresh purchases and choose the most advanced one (usually at back of the shelf!).

I take little notice of dates. If it needs eating it gets eaten, if not it’s frozen , or cooked and then frozen. Nothing is thrown out and we have had no problems. Can’t stand waste.

I think dried foodstuffs and tins are fine for a long time after their sell by date. I would throw fresh stuff away away a day or two after the date, but I’d only throw vegetables and fruits when you can see they’ve gone off.
I understood that B+B pudding was developed in order to use up stale bread.

I once made a B&B pud in France, with a mega size stale brioche the baker gave for free when we collected our daily mega order of baguettes, croissants etc. - there were at least 12 staying at the time.
It worked well, but TBH I prefer it with bog standard white bread and butter.