To use a sauce in a jar

[Izzy24]

Dated June 2020? The lid doesn’t bounce in the middle.

The lid is not supposed to pop or bounce when still closed. It pops when it's open.
I even dug out a jar for this.

Given it's been sitting in the OP's cupboard for 2 years I suspect the lid would be bulging by now if it had been contaminated with the botulism bacteria

Bulging? OP would’ve contracted botulism from the shrapnel from her dodgy jar! 😂

I'd eat the sauces but not those.

I do get the ‘why use them it’s only £1’ but I feel bad wasting it.

Why? This stuff is literally so mass produced, why do you feel bad wasting one or two jars rather than risk being ill? It's one jar which has come from a huge vat, which is one of hundreds/thousands of huge vats of the stuff made each day.

Honestly, you'd get ill over a drop in the ocean!

(Ok, you probably won't get ill, but I don't get this extreme anti-waste mentality)

If the sauce looked OK when I opened it, I'd probably eat it. I've just had some orange juice from an individual tetra pack that was 18 months out of date.

It was a little darker than you'd expect, but it tasted OK so I drunk it.

The lid popper isn't to do with whether the sauce has gone off, although it might help indicate this, it's mainly to show that the jar hasn't been opened and potentially contaminated since production.

This was a safety feature introduced after a high profile blackmail plot some years ago.

I can't find a news story for this, it was decades ago, and googling only brings up news of a more recent case.

www.cps.gov.uk/thames-and-chiltern/news/farmer-found-guilty-contaminating-baby-food-part-ps15million-bitcoin

I've just sent DH off to work with salmon (and cucumber) sandwiches.

We are moving house and eating the cupboards down. It was specifically bought for him as I don't eat tinned salmon.

Date on the tin was 2018........

But in the situation the OP described, I'd be very surprised if the food was even slightly stale/past it's best, and even then, it's very unlikely to make anyone ill, it just wouldn't taste as it should.

Because I'm a sucker for a bargain and too lazy to rotate my cupboards properly, I'm always finding 2/3/4 years out of date food in the cupboards and freezer.

99% of it is absolutely fine, so it wouldn't occur to me to not eat it. However, I can confirm that suet that is 18 months out of date is slightly rancid, but not dangerously so and if you keep a tin of soup long enough, all the solid bits sink to the bottom of the tin and don't resuspend even if you give the can a good shake.

But despite all the above, I've not had food poisoning for at least 30 years.

Dried prunes will be fine, surely.

Ten year old marmite in my cupboard….

Dried prunes will be fine, surely.

Yup. We dried out own and they lasted for ages as long as properly stored

Dehydrated stuff will almost certainly be fine. Removing all of the water from something means that bacteria cannot thrive/grow. You have to store it properly though. As soon as moisture is reintroduced, the clock starts ticking again, so to speak.

Why risk it? It’s two years out of date and might make you poorly… plus it’s like worth a £1!!

I am pleased to know that once zombies come there will be plenty of jars and tins past their BB date left over for me to comfortably survive😁

So OP, update please.

Are you alive?

Did you projectile vomit/ shit yourself?

Are you perfectly ok as there is nothing wrong with eating something beyond its best before date as long as it has been stored appropriately?

Well they’re not really dried. They look the same as when I took them out of the packet
and put them in a jar to store them. So I don’t know 🤷‍♀️