A Week On Asda Smart Price DAY 6

[@mystscot9814]

I remember several years ago I was made redundant from my job, was unemployed for 7 months or so. As with the financial situation or should I say the lack of finances I had to buy the cheapest of food to make ends meet. Most if not all the food was the value, smart price, essential labelled food, such as rice, pasta, bread to name but a few. When money is tight it's surprising how we can adapt to situations very quickly, despite eating cheaper food I have and will always be grateful for having food to eat in those tough times. Even had an old slow cooker, never used it until I was unemployed, would buy the cheapest of frozen minced beef, add mixed frozen vegetables and potatoes and a gravy mix, I would freeze the food into smaller containers, to which these meals would last me 4 to 5 days, surprisingly I was always full when eating the minced beef and veg with bread to soak up the gravy. I'm now in a great job, however, from time to time I will purposely go out of my way to buy the cheap food items again, just to give myself a reality check on how things were bad at the time in the past, never to take things for granted. And finally, I always buy food for the local foodbanks, put the food into those foodbank trolleys that a lot of supermarkets have these days, cause one day I could be in that situation myself again, struggling to make ends meet.

[@adalieze]

watching this makes me want to browse the low cost aisles again...the nostalgia of getting through those hard times has come flooding back. To be fair, the only difference between low cost and brand name food is mainly the cost of advertising. True some brands have their secret recipes and whatnot, but the primary ingredients are practically the same.

[@ladolcevitauk1474]

Thank you for sharing that😊

[@Zooumberg]

I've just resigned in Feb. I'm on Universal Credit. Let's just say that money is tight. I'm in that exact situation. I can't even concentrate due to lack of food. Tomorrow is my pittance day and I'll be cutting into my rent to buy a huge shop. Never again will I be left with no food for an entire week. Before anyone says I can afford internet. Well, I need that to look for jobs and it is the only luxury I have. If I didn't have that I wouldn't be able to talk to friends and I'd be totally isolated. I'm not work shy, I worked for Worldpay for six years and prior to that, for Sky for four years. All without a gap in my employment.

[@whitexchina]

@@Zooumberg I hope you are doing better now.

[@Zooumberg]

@@whitexchina much better. I'm working for a huge coffee company giving technical support for their machines. I've got a beautiful flat in a lovely area. Thank you for asking.

[@thomraider9193]

Watching Mike and Grace cook always makes me feel like a master chef

[@dganet]

Lol....I think this every time too! 🤣

[@Chloemichelleashby18]

ThomRaider91 haha very true. Every time they struggle to open up a microwave meal by peeling, I get a sharp knife and just make a slit 😂

[@Sackboy612]

Stir your microwave meals

[@AC-wr7lx]

SBM I agree

[@SophiaPetrillosBuddy]

That was pissing me off

[@nickmayes6501]

Thank you

[@Dave2108]

I had an Icelands ready meal last night and it didn't mention anything about stirring it in the heating instructions.. But i did any way.. :)

[@crazyrandombob]

I'm deeply disturbed about you adding corn in your spaghetti.

[@sui5525]

crazyrandombob I do it makes it so much better

[@cheeserice388]

In slightly disturbed that you're stealing opinions from older videos

[@edbadyt]

crazyrandombob he didn't put sweetcorn in the spaghetti, he put it in the bolognese. Spaghetti is just the name for the long thin pasta he served with it.

[@Billybloop]

Corn tastes good in tuna pasta bake but not with spaghetti bolognese.

[@adalieze]

you've never lived till you do :)

[@trionawhite5110]

You should try a week on ww2 rations. It teaches you a lot about what our great/grandparents had to do to survive and feed their very large families. Pretty eye opening xx

[@paulgascoigne5343]

I think he means more like civilian British food in WWII were you were limited to 1 egg, 4 oz bacon, 2oz cheese, 2oz butter, 4oz margarine, 4oz lard, 3 pints of milk, 8oz sugar etc - a week! People had to make do with powdered egg and weird concoctions. There are plenty of ww2 recipes online. Potatoes were used to about everything. Potato sandwich spread. Potato pastry.. mash Potato with flavoring to simulate banana..

[@trionawhite5110]

@@paulgascoigne5343 *she. Exactly what I mean, I have tried it and it really makes you respect food. We are very privileged, even the poorest have access to to food they didnt have during the war.

[@karinahilton2330]

I asked this yesterday, hope he does :)

[@zain2232]

No

[@Captain1diot]

A week on reduced priced food from the reduced section. (I know Tesco has one!)

[@DANE89]

I literally saw 2 Asians fight over a loaf of bread for 15p.

[@drewpamon]

Isn't that what he's already doing?

[@Chloemichelleashby18]

Dane Jones sounds savage 😂

[@Captain1diot]

@@drewpamon not quite. I'm talking about the stuff that's usually damaged or near use/sell/bbf date that gets reduced in price.

[@SimonJ57]

@@DANE89 I've seen those type of folk just walk out with trollies full of cheap bread. It's stupendous the length some'll go to penny pinch so I have 0 doubts you saw a domestic in the middle of the super-market. Much like the Dan C, I've seen a Roma woman basically ask every member of staff to get stuff reduced, even though it's basically hit it's limit (still has like, 3 days on but it's a 'deleted' line).

[@IgnoresTrolls]

The people of Bologna are going to hunt you down if you call that sweetcorn filled dish after their town again.

[@drunkenhobo8020]

Bolognese with sweetcorn, but no onion or carrot. For my next meal I'll have steak pie with without pastry or meat, but cucumber instead.

[@dganet]

Oh jeez, loving the comments this week 😁

[@PiousMoltar]

Carrot? No thanks.

[@djcubiceldanto3678]

Italians in general, im already booking a flight to Britain

[@IgnoresTrolls]

@@PiousMoltar Bolognese sauce has carrot in it. I grate when I make mine so it's melted into the sauce when it's cooked. There shouldn't be chunks of the stuff, but it's there.

[@legsyboyy7007]

Next challenge idea could be a week off aldi/ lidl food ?

[@JunKurosu]

He could do worse

[@nothingbutwest6372]

Aldi/Lidl food is really good food. Their grade of fruit/veg/meat is higher than you'd find in any Tesco, Sainsburys, etc.

[@legsyboyy7007]

The food is lovely very good price too with big selection on everything

[@zeberto1986]

Like all supermarkets Aldi has some really good food even in their ‘everyday value’ range. This would be a great week on.

[@legsyboyy7007]

Glad this got a great response and people agree , hopefully he sees this and does this challenge :)

[@TheRetroTaco]

The moment you realise that mikes latest week on is nearly finished 😔 😢 😔 😢 😔 😢

[@TheRetroTaco]

@B J B mike is brilliant! One of the best youtubers and deserves alot more subs! I thoroughly enjoy his videos ☺

[@SneakyCrocodile]

B J B far from Karl Pilkington.. All Mikes comedy consists of is “YOLO”

[@Akaraut]

I work at asda on the produce department. A while back they rebranded all the produce smart price and some of the regular asda branded produce to 'Farm stores'. It's still the cheap option for fruit and veg, but now uses a different name. The rest of the store still uses smart price though.

[@turnip5359]

i used to love putting those iceberg lettuces out

[@ReiEvans]

Hello fellow colleague! :') This was the first thing I thought when he said they don't do onion. Those pre chopped onions are so cheap

[@robintraylen7331]

So that's why fruit and veg I get from asda goes off so quick.

[@StevioGaming1]

Week on LIDL please, atleast their food is nice

[@mrchode3641]

This is the same but different packaging.

[@young321bookie]

Different LIDL/ALDI stores actually sell different products, the stores in the posher areas sell fancier products.

[@mrchode3641]

@@young321bookie Rarely. Mine sells lobster tails. But Aldi is cheap for a reason, they offer like one variation of a product so can afford to sell it cheaper than the like sod Sainsbury's who can offer multiple choice of one product. But literally all these cheap products are the same especially things like biscuits, spaghetti etc.

[@edbadyt]

Exactly, the food is good so a week on it would be boring. Just watching a man eat normal food for a week.

[@aalyssassecret]

Or morrisons

[@charlieh1006]

Do a Week on Aldi like if you agree

[@dr666demento]

#weekontacobell

[@ollieb9875]

There's nothing wrong with Aldi though, you can get everything there it's easy.

[@baddude1337]

There's no Taco Bell in the UK. Just as well, our toilets wouldn't cope.

[@OtakuboyT]

"Week on Aldi" is basically a week a my Grandparents.

[@CloMo-]

@@baddude1337 there's a taco bell in Nottingham.. So there must be more around the U.K.

[@spicklelucy1]

Waiting for Waitrose essential, it will differ so much to the other supermarkets because of what they consider “essential”.

[@katiegardner3254]

I ALWAYS put sweetcorn in my Bolognese, it's a crucial ingredient which if without i refuse to make 😂 love your videos Mike, my daughter is mad about Basil, she hears your voice and runs in asking if I've seen the cat yet 😊

[@JS67137]

Mike your knowledge of diet is hilarious😂

[@enarabone2555]

I disagree, for a man of his age he should know more. Obviously not uneducated in food or nutrition, fat, carbs and everything that goes with it that he should know.

[@jase5164]

I triggers me as a gym freak...

[@Stewf123]

@@enarabone2555 sarcasm alert!

[@LastofAvari]

Nice hooters shirt. Grace is the best ;)

[@EmeraldLavigne]

She is phenomenally lovely. Do you follow her on Twitter? Worth it.

[@randywatson8347]

Hmmmm... no.. brain... stoppppp... keep it civil..

[@RileyRivalle2]

+SopranoPictures I haven't checked myself, but I mean... Did you search her name before asking at least?

[@ellennn1994]

Nothing wrong with putting sweetcorn into a spagbol IMO, always do it. Been known to chuck everything into one, good to bulk up, peppers, onions, courgette, anything and everything, makes it more chunky and tasty, in my opinion!

[@jackieparish979]

All you need to do for fatty mince is fry it off first then put a sieve over a bowl and tip the cooked mince through it. The fat collects in the bowl and the meat stays in the sieve. Then put the mince back in the pan and add your other ingredients. Simple!

[@johngooch1439]

Is Sainsbury's basic next on the cards like if u agree

[@catslikesaltandvinegarcris110]

Graces Hooters top is TOO CUTE! Ah ma gahd, Grace, we love ya 🦉🦉🦉 you're so gorgeous. Mike, how slim and healthy do you look!?...I watched the Tesco value week last nigh and you look so different. The cardio is paying off, very much so.

[@badmangames6380]

Sick gym playlist.

[@catslikesaltandvinegarcris110]

BadMan Games , haha! Yeahhhh 😁👌🏼 you’re gonna’ use that now, right? Lol.

[@nafisahafeez5866]

You Could melt chocolate and put it on the corn flakes then put it in the cupcake cases and then fridge which makes a nice tasty crunchy cakes

[@Urbantravellife1]

the sentence "ohh well, yolo i'm an adult" is my new catchphrase

[@mariaboyle9920]

"Don't talk with your mouth full" - he says, with his mouth full of food .

[@ltk1727]

Maria Boyle exactly looool what a wasteman

[@crushbeast29]

Sweetcorn in a bolognaise? You are truly a disturbed man.

[@Nimmo1492]

This "Week On" is far more positive than usual.

[@harshbarj]

Do a week on Aldi. I practically live off their food exclusively. High quality and low price. Plus you will actually get fruit and veg.

[@accountnumber90]

There was a brand of dog food we used to give my dog as a kid that looked _identical_ to that meat.

[@TheRetroTaco]

A week on slow cooker meals?

[@bruixeria]

In the US it's pretty common to have to drain the fat from ground hamburger meat, what you guys refer to as mince. You can get ground hamburger with less fat that you don't really have to drain but it's more expensive. I was surprised that you guys were surprised that you were gonna have to drain it.

[@Ivashaaa]

Please do a week on IKEA food

[@markiangooley]

Belle Swedish meatballs, lingonberry jam, fish roe in cream paste... sounds good

[@michaelocyoung]

and MOOSE SAUSAGES

[@drewpamon]

They make furniture, I'm pretty sure anyway.

[@Zak-ob5ze]

@@drewpamon they also do food

[@Pweebz123]

you can't expect the packaging to have a design at that price lol

[@PCReloaded]

It should do though. It bearly costs anything

[@brianstanton5844]

I love the asda smart price milk choc. Prob because ive not got much of a sweet tooth but its nice with a cuppa

[@eustacequinlank7418]

Is that mince mechanically reclaimed meat slurry, plumped with water and extruded through a high pressured die?

[@MrAndyB]

I used to live off Smart Price when I moved in to my first flat. Me and my flat mates used to love the Bolognese sauce. It tastes a bit like the sauce they use on pizzas too.

[@daniellethomson1916]

The spaghetti bolange wouldn’t have dry pasta if stirred it

[@SuperSkullSplitter]

Sweetcorn in the bolognese, just like mama used to make 👌🇮🇹

[@KrisTHFC26]

😂😂

[@nix6784]

Be good to see this done again now they have changed their smartprice range to just essentials, see if theres more in the range or if the food tastes different

[@MrAranton]

Treat yourself and show us a week on what you eat when you're not on a "a week on x"-challenge.

[@jaynadiah5498]

pretty sure its spagbol every day

[@whitexchina]

What is it with the corn in your Bolognese? Well, to each their own. I like my Bolognese to have some sweetness to it as well & one can add different things to make it sweeter, like carrots, or a little bit of fried bacon, brown sugar... I sometimes I even add a bit of Ketchup. I know it sounds crazy, but I like it. I lived in the US for many years & was invited for dinner once. She made a fantastic, moist meatloaf, with crispy oven potatoes fresh herbs etc, wonderful cauliflower & the best gravy ever. I asked her what she put in the meat & the secret ingredient was Ketchup.

[@Rainbowofthefallen]

Could you do a week on Morrison or Sainsbury's own brand of food?

[@seoulpurpose]

I've always loved these "week on" videos Mike, and wanted to share my idea for a shameless homage. I've got brain cancer, and have to take chemotherapy drugs for one week each month. During that week, my appetite and senses of smell and taste change drastically, and my diet has to adjust to cope, and I wanted to document how I deal with that through the week. It's not meant to be tasteless, or trivialize such a serious subject; I wouldn't monetize and the audience would be tiny. I just want to speak to my own experience in a way that's sincere, but not heavy--I try my best to add some gallows levity when writing about my new life, so it's not some slog or bummer. Just wanted to mention it's an idea I've had; I may never get the chance to pull it together, but wanted to at least mention it to you in a public forum while it's still just an idea--in case you're so repulsed by the idea that you'd beg me not to try it.

[@setogod7]

i also love sweetcorn on a spagbol or lasagne and put it in bread so its a spagbol or lasagne sandwitchs

[@SebbeDK]

You'll get better sauce coverage on your pasta if you add the almost cooked pasta into your pasta sauce for a minute and finish the cooking there.

[@IceWeaver]

I'm watching this at 1AM and for some reason that half-sauceless pasta made me hungry. Damn it Mike

[@LauraBidingCitizen]

I’m still mortified you put sweetcorn in your bolognese 😫

[@PandaOnRitalin]

You can get asda smartprice ketchup and other sauces btw.

[@carmeenamack]

I don't care what Mike eats or where he gets it... I'm only here for Basil 🤓

[@drewpamon]

It's in the sauce

[@izz2756]

Live for these videos! Love seeing what you’ll be eating and doing next 😂 keep on doing what you do best!!☺️

[@ceph042]

the mince meat looks like fish food

[@lewishawkes8246]

How small his portion was for the spag Bol

[@kinggads]

Id like to see you do another week on “iceland” but not just the £1 meals but actually try a full range of their products

[@tomjohnston1108]

You could have gone for the smartprice mandarin or grapefruit segments (if in stock). I tend to use quite a few of the smartprice products (the soups are really nice) , and I've been quite pleased with the quality and taste . I'm hoping you've got a tin of smartprice sausages & beans tucked away for day 7...

[@themondays4914]

Quick tip, next time you do pasta mix it with the sauce in the pan and you get nice coated pasta.

[@ZombieToad]

£2 for 500g of frozen beef and pork mince? you can get 500g of beef mince for £1.49 or 500g of pork mince for £1.89 from lidl

[@PandanRcake]

Sainsburys basics next pls!

[@dganet]

God that mince stuff (in its raw form) looks like the stuff I used to feed my dogs!

[@JamieB1993]

Sweetcorn in spaghetti bolognese?! what are you thinking?! xD

[@drewpamon]

Yum?

[@JamieB1993]

@@drewpamon definitely not lol

[@PCReloaded]

I was thinking that 🤔

[@CraigIsSocial]

I have the Smartprice chocolate chip muesli bars. They're brilliant to throw in your backpack as a snack on the go, but gosh they'd never serve as an actual breakfast!

[@mariedonnachie8784]

Now to do a week own brand name (just Asda not smartprice) and repeat with Tesco and sainsburies to see if it is an improvement over value ranges!

[@garethrichardson5428]

0:18 I thought that was someone else’s hand about to turn the light on. I had to close the app and give myself a minute. Wow.

[@danielbeaney4407]

Im not mad at you for the sweetcorn... im just disappointed that you didn't make the sause from scratch (but then again i haven't made a meat Bolognese for ages!) . Also they do have smartprice onions useually.

[@beccalou3916]

I’ve been waiting all day for this 12 hours tbh 😂 please do a week on Sainsbury’s

[@tyler5420]

U got inster 😂

[@beccalou3916]

Tyler English why? Ahah

[@tyler5420]

@@beccalou3916 JW ha snap then 😂👌

[@beccalou3916]

Tyler English @becca_l24 is my insta

[@tyler5420]

@@beccalou3916 thanks

[@CokeCansHD]

Does everyone eat their ready meals like Mike in the box or do you empty it onto a plate?

[@KellieValentine]

Dark chocolate from supermarket brands is actually so lovely. Agree with you guys about the milk chocolate not being as good, would recommend the dark to people tho for sure!

[@mgthestrange9098]

Have you never heard of sandwiches for lunch? You could have ham and cheese, a yoghurt,SP crisps and a biscuit, the classic packed lunch! I love the SP chocolate, I always use it for crispy cakes. It’s actually cheaper than buying cooking chocolate. ☺️🥪🍱🍫

[@qwrktks9534]

Oh should film buying the products and the process of choosing certain foods

[@little_becky]

Are you going to do a Sainsbury’s basics week?

[@giorgiadi-girolamo4213]

Was gagging so bad at your ‘bolognese’ 😂😂

[@mollylouise666]

You should do a week on Sainsbury’s basics! They have their own range of fresh fruit & veg😊

[@DarknessViper99]

The reason the dark chocolate tastes better or “chocolate-y” I believe is because there’s supposed to be a required minimum percentage of cocoa in anything dark chocolate, whereas milk chocolate can pretty much be 99.9% milk if they want it to be. Then again, I forget if this rule applies to only the US, UK, or both.

[@iamannedroid]

Oh lord the frozen mince looked like wood chippings or something

[@MonkeyHunch1]

I saw you looking at Graces hooters at the end Mike ;)

[@theimben]

That's mostly water not fat cooking out of the meat.

[@loollo3280]

Week on meal deals or sainsburys own?

[@rhodaleader6824]

Italians use a 50/50 mix of beef and pork in their authentic bolognese as pork gives it more flavour.

[@Tomnickles]

Is that a thing in England to put corn in your spaghetti sauce or something? Cause, of all the things I think to put in the sauce, corn is not on that list.

[@djklink20009]

that was awesome great video you two, you make a great couple by the way

[@enigma776]

Quite possibly the worst Bolognese I have ever seen.

[@jaynadiah5498]

nah the one he made on sainsburys cheap own was even worse

[@enigma776]

@@jaynadiah5498 Gonna go looking.

[@jaynadiah5498]

@@enigma776 yeah it was the same nasty frozen mince and tomato sauce.. that was pretty much it lol! The supermarkets also do their own cheapo fresh mince.. its so much better.. theres no need for anyone to buy the frozen crap

[@enigma776]

@@jaynadiah5498 Yeah I personally won't touch frozen mince at all. Its bags of mostly water anyway, same goes for the chicken too.

[@jaynadiah5498]

@@enigma776 yeah even the cheapo fresh one has added water but at least it cooks up to the proper consistency.... makes a huge difference compared to the mushy crap.... frozen chicken breast is ok as long as its the standard version not the really cheap version

[@prudies.1433]

Oh my god!!! Every part of my Italian heritage is having a stroke right now. Corn? No. No. No. No!!!!

[@drewpamon]

Try it you'll like it.

[@prudies.1433]

drewpamon I could say that about cocaine but I’ll pass just the same.

[@jannahbrown7149]

Love these type of vlogs ! Keep them up 😊 and also my boyfriends name is basil .... funny how he is always asking for food too 🙄🤔😂

[@leefairbank9000]

Why do you eat out of the food containers rather than plates ???

[@ohdear5671]

I believe it was more water than fat that came out of the mince (obviously because it's frozen) :)

[@jom2240]

And also them stats ur looking at the front is usually per100g or so say so it's actually usually 3x or 4x them stats but dunno if you realise it.... The ready meals aren't 100g usually 400g or more.... So actually 200% of ur fats for example in the mac and cheese dish. Not just 100g's worth

[@jom2240]

So I don't presume your weighing your portions either so you shouldn't really bother reading stats unless you are going to weigh it per 100g...

[@MrGreenYeti]

I though it was baked beans and spaghetti from the thumbnail.

[@jamesschofield4233]

Spaghett! The mince looked a lot like those pink pellets you find in bird and hamster food..

[@elizabethpawlowski2673]

I use that dark chocolate to make chocolate mousse and it's nice in that

[@KimKandyKane]

You'd have to be some kind of maniac to add sweetcorn to your bolognaise.

[@jefallecker]

A week on Gas (Petrol) station food. What do you think Mike? Is it doable?

[@nethalus]

When he turned the camera off, Grace clouted him round the lug'ole for calling her awkward, then she ran off with both bars of chocolate..LOL

[@endpapers]

Should do the living on a pound a day for a week challenge

[@aalyssassecret]

Can you do a week on morrisons food

[@missmaryh6932]

Liked and subscribed as requested. Lol, that looked quite nice. I'd eat it the pasta that is. Might add bit of cheese? Enjoyed the podcasts. Well done to you both for adherence.

[@moozicforLIFE]

'It looks like spaghetti Bolognese'...... Mysterious collective shudder runs through all of the citizens of Bologna

[@joannegray5138]

Damn those peaches grown specifically for carnivores - they're so damn expensive!

[@maxscardanelli6185]

Well, we've spotted the vegan here...

[@joannegray5138]

Guilty. What gave me away? Lol.

[@drewpamon]

Calling vegetarian fruit food for "carnivores"

[@joannegray5138]

Could just be I'm very erudite?

[@EspadaShi]

I have always wanted a cat and name it Coriander. Can Basil and my future cat be friends

[@PapaSeed]

U gonna eat it?

[@shinetilly]

The peaches were probably in a sugar syrup and sugar isn’t usually vegan.

[@stellaharper3338]

Grace looks extra pretty in this her skin and nose is glowing

[@chloelovesdavid09]

Basil is such a gorgeous cat he has a great character

[@richandiben]

A week on Wetherspoons?

[@gerardbell8130]

I have to say, I would love to see a "week without processed food". Like full on, not eating anything unless you make it with all fresh ingredients. I suppose flour for baking would be okay. But I think people would be well up for seeing that.