A Week On Asda Smart Price DAY 7 

Apparently a lot of you thought I was serious when I said I shower once a week. Good grief.

I think cobbling together the final meal was actually great because it showed what someone with limited means might have to do anyway - use the food on hand to make something filling and (fairly...) nutritious...

hey Mike, I just want to say thanks for doing these, I'm a large guy (close to 400lbs) and there is something about watching you do these week ons and product reviews which is actually in the back of my mind somehow helps me enforce an aspect of portion control which actually gives me motivation and inspiration to control my portion sizes much more when i'm at home. honestly, your week on series, your ability to stick to these week ons without falling off or binge eating much like myself is very powerful to see. so even though i'm just one guy, I just wanted to say thanks for doing this, being entertaining and for doing what you do a lot of people watch man vs food and get hungry, but theres something about what you do which just works for someone like myself, I don't know if anyone else here is like that, maybe I'm on my own in these comments, but regardless i always get a kick out of these videos in a positive way, keep up the good work, you're a top bloke. please, i seriously emplore you to keep making these.

The "blue" stuff in blue cheese IS mould. It's a harmless one though (one that doesn't produce nasty toxins like the ones growing on spoilt food generally do) that turns the milk into this kind of cheese. This is how it is made. The white stuff around camembert is also mould. ^^

Do a week on marks and spencer to see if it is really worth spending more

Mike jeavons: master of one handed box opening/cooking/eating etc 😁 😂

I think as you’ve sacrificed your health on this for a week, I reckon we should all chip on Patreon and you do a full week on M&S food or maybe Tesco Finest, eat like a king for the week!

What a fantastic series. Me and my other half really enjoyed each video you did. Great work Mike, great work

I love the humor on these videos, cheers me up after a bad day at work more than you could imagine! Keep up the good work!

I liked this week on , it was a good intro to the smart price range . Yay for basil . Basil is a lovely cat . Keep up the good work Mike , already looking forward to your next week on !

The Jaffa cakes are not stale that is how they are made like they did years ago before someone took mcvities to court over Jaffa cakes being like buiscits and the extra tax for being a biscuit with chocolate on

Would love to see a week in Aldi/Lidl. I now live in a part of Scotland (Shetland) where there is no Aldi or Lidl and used to do all my shopping there. Shopping at Tesco these days and price of a weeks shop is often more than double what it was in Edinburgh. Great videos keep them up.

I started school on Wednesday and I’d just watch your video before bed I honestly loved this series 😊

Big congrats for the million views on the Tesco value day 1 video, that week is what got me to your channel, RU-vid recommendations actually brought me something good for once ;)

The thing about Asda Smart Price is that it can be a little hit and miss. The vast majority of items are decent, especially the stuff you’d expect to be crap, but there are items that are bloody awful. The blue cheese, as you experienced as one example, the hazelnut chocolate spread as another. Overall though, it is well worth giving Smart Price products a go. You can save significant amounts of money over branded stuff and sacrifice only a minor amount of flavour/quality. As an aside, the Jaffa cakes aren’t stale. Mcvities use a recipe which contains more fat (used to be hydrogenated fat before all the uproar about it) that gives them a more sponge like texture. The smart price recipe is actually more “traditional” and so is much more biscuit like in texture. Bit of a shock when you’re used to Mcvities and not expecting it, but otherwise they’re probably one of my fav of the Smart Price line.

I love how you apologised at the start regarding how you aren't making these videos in a degroterry way towards people who genuinely buy these products and now suddenly it's a "fantastic" week.

Thumbs up every day mate. Great content. Been watching you a while now. Keep up the good work!

Came across your channel by chance of looking for something else but watched all week not something that I would try but enjoyed watching you. keep the entertainment going I wait to see what you do next 👍👍👍👊

Your relationship makes me feel all warm inside, its so sweet

Call me crazy, but isn't blue cheese meant to be very strong ?

Literally my favourite series on RU-vid hahahah, have you done Iceland yet? I work there and would like to see that

I really enjoyed this one. I’ve always thought about buying the cheaper Asda stuff when I’m in there and this was like watching you test drive the whole range for me lol

Blue cheese is called blue cheese because of the BLUE MOULD...

just found you today, great series!!!!!

Just subscribed and love the videos. I thought the weekly shower comment was a joke made for the taking, loved it! As for the blue cheese, i think you maybe need to like blue cheese in the first place. I will go try it myself asi love blue cheese lol. Looking forward to all your videos from now on! cheers guys.

Really enjoyed all these videos. Some of that food actually looked pretty good.

Thank you. Enjoyed this week. How about m-savers? Morrisons savers. White chocolate is the best and jaffa cakes

My childhood cat used to have a thing for the boiler cupboard. He went missing for about 2 days once when we had no idea he was in there. When I opened the door I found him sat in there. Whenever you used to open the boiler cupboard he used to jump on the shelf above the boiler and curl up in all the towels and sheets and you had to lift him back out again before you closed the door.

Love your chopping board! Asda jaffa cakes are my favourite

Love these videos!!

Ha ha the plastic lid opening fail!🤣

Normal People: Boiler Mike, an intellectual: *H O T W A T E R C Y L I N D E R*

What a fantastic series

This was ten times better than your week on Tesco mainly for one reason: You didn't spend every episode talking about your book and when you did talk about it or your Patreon it was unobtrusive and appropriate. Maybe it's just me but it made all the difference to me and made me more likely to support you

I've watched all 7 videos and it was very good, I think I'll go check out your Tesco Value Videos :)

Well done Mike, looking forward to the next one

Thanks for this one, got some great ideas to try new products from Asda, but when I went to my local superstore I found they stock next to nothing smartprice!

Recently we had some farm fresh organic mince in a spag bol and boy was it good. I'd love to see a week on Organic to see how you think it compares!

Really enjoyed this :) love the week on series! on a more random note, did Grace make that stunning blanket that is on your chair near the end?

thanks for the videos theyre great

The ready meals could have such a long shelf life by either being packaged in an anaerobic environment such as chips (chrisps) where they package is filled with nitrogen to purge any oxygen before being sealed. It would also explain why they dont peel open but must be cut. They also could irradiate the package once sealed killing off all bacteria that might be inside further reducing the ability for it to go off.

I would love to try some of this squash drink mix you have been showing - haven't seen the equivalent in US markets.

Fs, beans on a low to medium heat for 5 mins - Heinz or otherwise - not 20 seconds at a heat closer to the surface of the sun. Other than that I have no qualms.

This week actually inspired me to go and buy Smart Price stuff on my previous grocery shop in Asda. Can confirm just how good it is: for the insanely low amount of money the stuff costs, you can't go wrong. The chips (fries for you Americans.) are especially good when considering the fact that a bag from McCain would cost £2-3, when - if you ask me - the McCain are no where near as good as the cheapo alternative. My mother swears by Asda's own brand stuff and thinks the Tesco equivalents are horrible. Sainsburys is worse AND more expensive whilst giving less quantity for your coin.

I loved this week on!

this week on has gone by too fast :(

I’d love to see you do a week on Keto 😁

Really enjoy your week ons Mike :)

A week on TINNED GOODS!! Great videos again mate x

This week went by really fast, for some reason it didn't drag, maybe because it was so positive. It really felt so nice and chill, like hanging around with a good friend :-)

it`s wonderful that you survived this week on, now try and eat this range every week and nothing else, i can only imagine some people have too, because of budget reasons.

i think you should do a week on 'Tesco Finest' or Asda's version of that!

Mike where did you get that jurrasic park clock??? I need one

Another neat week on Mike. Wonder what you going to come up next.

I knew from just hearing you talk that you would be local to me, looked you up and says you was born in northampton, and live in bedfordshire :D I'm from Kettering.

I like the Asda packaging design. So pure and simple. Next: one week after I've learned that my filthy oven can be cleaned.

Would you do a week on morrisons value food. I think it would be good for people on a budget to see what the value range is like in the most common supermarkets so they can make a more informed choice as to what value range is decent and so they know what to expect when they buy it

I loved this week on and the Tesco Value one

A week on Polish food? The odd meats you get in Eastern European shops.

Mike why are you the best British youtuber lol. Me n my mates love yah. Much love from the Bedford boiz

Love these videos! How about a week on Aldi/Lidl?

Basil is so adorable! I got a black cat when I was 8 and grew up with him - he recently died at the ripe old age of 15 :(

The Problem with using Tesco Value as the benchmark is that Tesco have axed a lot of the Value products (55 in fact, including baked beans and Tea bags) eg: The Tea is now Stockwell (made by Typhoo). A lot of the chilled aisle value products are now Eastman.

It's time for the Grand Finale!!!!

Do aldi smart price or Morrisons smart price food😀😀 If u from UK ima pretty sure u r tho 😄 I subscribed and put notification bell ON!!😀

Once asda you said was being bought out by different company you might want to go back and revisit this and see if the amount of items changes and the quality of the items changes

My mother used to make a poached egg on cheese toast, she called it a Welsh rare bit. I don't know how popular that name is for it though I think it's fairly ubiquitous in Ireland. Just wondering if other countries call it the same thing, especially in Wales?

Ooohhh that cliffhanger outro... The next week on is a stinker?? 🤔 place your bets

It is probably the fat and salt that helps preserve the chilled meal. Plus they can use cheaper fattier meat.

Maybe you can do the Tesco and Asda for a week at the same time mix them together?

Ready meals in the US last for a thousand years.

Like the song by sting, you like your toast done on one side !

@5:25 Is your stove powered by Mace Windu's lightsaber?

Hi lovey! Have you ever done weight watchers? Would love to see you do the new plan! X

I propose a week on Fortnum and Mason's.

was that smart price oil you used for your eggs ?

That blue cheese looked great tbh.

Do a posh week on. A week on Waitrose Essential!

OMG - having Lean Cuisine Lasagna as I'm watching

its because the film on the ready meals refused to come off that they have such a long shelf/fridge life.

Somehow, I think that GBP 35 is not that cheap. I suppose part of the reason is the lasagnas and other warm meals for lunch, which will always be more expensive than sandwiches. Also, there were a lot of sweets and snacks. Anyway, that was another interesting week on.

>Not eating the cheese rind B A R B A R I C

Please do an Aldi Essentials Week On.

Bro you looked ripped ! This asda diet must be fire

I’ve tried the savers blue cheese.its not the nicest is it.?in fact Inthought I was tasting Roquefort!!

I'm glad I made an appearance on this episode ☺ 🧀

when I did food tech in secondary school all the food was ASDA smartprice

You should give a week on Soylent Green a go, it's a liquid that is apparently an alternative to food.

Morrisons Value Jaffa Cakes are 30p and by far are so much nicer than Mcvities Jaffa Cakes. I find the Mcvities ones too hard crunchy, whereas Morrisons value are soft and have great taste. Try them !

I think it's a idea to do M-Savers cause they have a semi decent range of products

They put such a lot of salt in those ready meals in place of more expensive herbs and spices, I think that's why they have such a long shelf life.

Did you not have butter or do you just not put any on cheese on toast?

Please can you do sainsbury's and morrisons own brand week on that would be great x

Dude. Bread, cheese, eggs. French toast with cheese in the middle. Even better if you dump a can of spaghetti hoops over the top. 😆

bonus video - chicken and mash

Asda smart price is basically just Asda's own but with dull packaging so they can charge slightly less.

It's not evil preservatives that make the meals last 3 weeks in the refrigerator (not freezer) as they would have to list them and as you demonstrated, alot of them didn't have preservatives. High fat content foods last a long while (hence you can have butter in your fridge for months). Also, they suck the oxygen out the containers and replace it with nitrogen so that it's a much more difficult environment for bacteria to grow - this is probably why the cellophane wrapper is such an arse to remove, if it was easier like the meals which only last a few days then you'd have more meals going off quicker. More expensive ready meals have a higher turn over rate, more are sold to be eaten at convenience, where as smart price is aimed at people who perhaps may only shop once a fortnight or so.

Can't microwave them meals need to oven them and they come out much better .not that I get them much but have had times when on a bugget

Mike, did you not try the smart price Bourbon Creams?

Are you really supposed to leave the foil on when you put it in the microwave or oven?