Unopened jars and dried pasta, well past best before, would you?

[WideButShallow]

Sorry for a basic question but I’m really feeling the pinch financially like everyone else. I’m trying to avoid another food shop this month so have been sorting through the larder and using everything up that I have in.
I discovered a couple of jars of pasta sauce with bb dates in early 2022 and some unopened dried pasta from 2021.
the buttons aren’t depressing on the tops of the jars so the contents should still be ok?
I will probably bin the pasta but do you think it would be stale by now?

i was just thinking about how we kept things in jars for years when I was a kid and dried food was the same. Stored in airtight containers for heavens only knows how long. Home produced though, without modern preservatives so I don’t know how it compares.

Wouldn't even think twice about eating the pasta or the sauces. The sauces may need a bit of pepping up if you have some garlic or dried herbs around....

As in I'd definitely eat them.

I’d eat them, as long as no mould or bad smell when you open them. Those dates are so arbitrary anyway.

I would and have. During lockdown I ordered two packs of the 500g for 20p pasta. I always got the same click and collect, then got covid and went off pasta aslfter loosing taste and smell. So I found some quite of date pasta at the back if the cupboard. It was fine.

I would eat those things, nothing bad will come of it.

Thank you all for the reassurance. Will give the pasta a go too.

My nose is a much more reliable guide to what is good to eat than any sell by or best before dates.

If it smells ok and there is no fuzz growing, I'll eat it. If there is fuzz growing, I'll scrape it off.

I very seldom have any tummy upsets. DH who scrupulously obeys dates is always having them. I know which I prefer.

Of course, they don’t know what date it is.

no heistation

I would only bin the pasta if it was crawling. If it isn't then it's fine.
Sealed jars that age are no problem.