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  • Mands
    Mands Posts: 969 Forumite
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    ostaragirl wrote: »
    That's good to hear as I've found loads of thing I probably spent a fortune on at the time for example - a whole range of sushi making things like a packet of roasted seaweed, a box of sushi rice and a tube of wasabi all unopened, also jars of pickled mushrooms unopened and chutneys of all sorts.
    I really need to start meal planning.


    Can you make January a use-up month? Challenge yourself to create meal plans to use all this stuff up? Some of it sounds lovely and you'd gain some cupboard space and saving on the grocery budget too.

    For practical reasons I have to run our freezers to empty two or three times a year. It means we have the occasional strange combination meals while we're emptying but it's probably a good discipline for me getting to entirely empty.

    Although, to be fair, I'm really not keen on eating the lemon and lime popsicles that have been lurking since last summer ;)

    Mands
  • Blackbeard_of_Perranporth
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    It will be July 2014, at the earliest that the Black Treacle, dated October 2007, used in Xmas Puds, homemade to a handwritten recipe from nana's mum, in 1930, shall see the recycle bin.
  • Mojisola
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    Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »
    It will be July 2014, at the earliest that the Black Treacle, dated October 2007, used in Xmas Puds, homemade to a handwritten recipe from nana's mum, in 1930, shall see the recycle bin.

    That would probably still be safe to use in 2114!
  • njk2125
    njk2125 Posts: 20 Forumite
    Thought of you tonight while using up the last of the pasta sheets dated BBE July 2009.
    GC 10/12/2012 to 10/12/2013 £611.71/ £5000
    Jan £343.33
    Dec £268.38.

  • Blackbeard_of_Perranporth
    Blackbeard_of_Perranporth Posts: 7,605 Forumite
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    Mojisola wrote: »
    That would probably still be safe to use in 2114!
    Aye, but the tin would be empty about then!
    njk2125 wrote: »
    Thought of you tonight while using up the last of the pasta sheets dated BBE July 2009.
    We keep our paster and rice in a jar, no dates!
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