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Home made Christmas puddings should be made a year in advance normally on stir Sunday.

In the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, my local Tesco, two minutes walk away, sells off all its Christmas food, cheap. I usually stock up on their individual Christmas puds, and eat them over the following year or three. I see there are half a dozen at the back of the cupboard already over a year old. Time for a Christmas pud, I think.

Many thanks for all the replies/ideas :-)

To cover some of the points:

I have no idea why I had so many tins (about a dozen). If Sainsbury's stop selling items (like Baxter's Classic Tomato Chutney) I tend to buy from Amazon which usually means a box of a dozen.

The bin men are a bit fussy about what is in which bin so putting things in the wrong bin is not something I would normally do.

Emptying them into the garden might attract the wrong type of carrion.

I asked in the DIY group because I am going to dispose of these myself rather than get the butler to do it.

Thanks again!

I've updated the dates in my post, the pud in question was 11 years past the best before date!

My local supermarket never has left over Christmas fare like puddings, Stollen, Panatone etc. any more. They used to have loads and I've bought puddings that were £8 each before Christmas for £1 ea by December 28th. That obviously costs and cuts into profits. For the last few years they never have left over stuff like this. It appears they order fewer items and would rather run out of puddings etc. on Dec 23rd/24th and disappoint a few customers than have to sell things at a loss after Christmas.

Donate them to your local food bank? Many supermarkets have a bin for donations near the exit of the shop, you could just check them in. In the unlikely event that the food bank doesn't want them, they will know how to dispose of them properly.

Theo

Pre-packed cheeses will keep for years. I've eaten cheddar that has been kept, unopened, for ten years plus at room temperature. It was fine.

It depends on the food. I worked on developing coatings for the inside of tin cans. My predecessor in that job wiped out a substantial proportion of the Italian tomato crop one year. Anything containing water is corrosive but tomato-juice is far worse.

In a previous job I worked on developing an acne treatment for Beechams. The product passed all of the clinical testing with flying colours. But we had to drop it because we couldn't find any sensible way to package it. I was tempted to suggest Houdini as a brand name.

One of my tuna recipes would probably work. Mix a can of tuna and a can of mixed beans in vinaigrette. Add lime juice and/or chilli powder to taste.

I usually round-up a couple of pandoro from lidaldi

Donating to a cat rescue centre might be more successful

Some might, but the ones we have had over the last many years do come in packaging which carries a Best Before date - which is the central factor in the original question (in my view at least).

"Stir Up Sunday" WIWAL - which is odd since it mainly involved a horizontal circular motion.

Often supermarkets will send (some types of) food to a foodbank when it gets close to its Use-By date.

Quote:

Heads up, canned-food eaters: A report released today by the Environmental Working Group details which canned food brands use bisphenol A (BPA) in the lining, and which don’t.

Most of us know BPA as the plastic additive that mimics the hormone estrogen and has been removed from things like water bottles and baby formula packaging. But BPA lines an estimated 75 percent of canned foods in North America, protecting the metal from corroding and preventing bacteria from getting in. This has environmental advocates concerned, because the chemical leaches into the contents of cans at far higher rates than it does into, say, the water in your water bottle.

A 2011 Harvard study found that those who ate canned soup every day for five days had levels of BPA in their urine that were ten times those who had fresh soup”.

And that golf course in New York.

As a child I had many a slice of Christmas pudding when I came home from school ravenous. It was all I could find to eat. Come Stir Sunday mother had to make extra because there none of last years left.

When I was a kid, the cat lived on Glenryck tinned pilchards so try offering them to an animal rescue charity that takes in moggies.

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