Out of date jars and dried foods

pudding06

yeah - weavels are obvious to spot so I always use outof date pasta, rice etc.

You do have to use your senses though - sight and smell are invaluable lol

If I threw out all the out of date stuff in my cupboards and pantry teyd be bare lol

pudds

bucksliz

I'm just clearing out my kitchen cupboards and have found some out of date bits and pieces. Nothing much as I do them quite regularly. However, I once found some Worcester Sauce at my Mum's that was 5 years out of date and my ex-husband's aunt bought some peanuts to our house one Christmas which were about 3 years out of date. I won some biscuits at a tombola that were out of date and broken! I just quietly left them on the table and walked away!

What sort of horrors have others got lurking in their cupboards?

jovichick123

OMG you have me worried now lol am going to check the cupboards this afternoon to check I have nothing lurking!!

I do remember finding a curry sauce that was meant to have been used by 2001 when we moved house last year :eek: It had been bought as a BOGOF and when I got it home I realised it had raisins in it (can't stand them for some reason). I didn't throw it out at the time, just kept finding excuses not to use it!!

floyd

I am quite good at filtering through bottles and jars but its cans and the odd spice mix that tend to pass me by.
Found a tin of carrot and butterbean soup that was a year out of date, probably because it was abouta year ago I started making my own regularly! I think the worst thing was a packet of garam masala powder that was 4 years out of date and had been moved to 2 different houses

Gingernutmeg

My granny is an awful hoarder and has 'food fads' where she'll stock up on one particular thing and then go off it lol. About six years ago we cleaned out her kitchen cupboards and found about 20 Marks and Spencers cured meat sausage things. They were about ten years out of date and heaven only knows when she'd bought them ...

newlywed

Since MSE I check them all regulary so as not to waste them. But when I first got together with OH he had tins of food 2 years out of date!!!

Only thing I don't check is spices as they go into the spice rack pots and so no date is kept. They just "fade" a little in flavour (I was told) so no food poisoning risk as far as I am aware.