Travelling On

themadvix

Great progress on the windows Karma!

Chiglepig

Stuff the brownies, I want yorkshire pudding!

rtandon27

KC - what has happened to your diary? We are talking about food AND having people in the house?

...just going to double check I'm in the right place!

Karmacat

rtandon27 said:

KC - what has happened to your diary? We are talking about food AND having people in the house?

...just going to double check I'm in the right place!

That made me laugh so much 🤣😂🤣😂

Food confession time: I have a *lot* of white rice, quinoa and cornmeal to use up.  The cornmeal has an expiry date of ... April 2017.  Coconut, expiry 2019, it's not even just pandemic stuff.  I don't want to use 2016 stuff, but later than that, I'm going to experiment.  I thought I had a recipe for cornmeal something or other, but I can't find it.   When I write about "just getting by" this is what was happening - I was eating lots and lots and lots of gluten free pasta, because I could just pour it into a pan, as opposed to rinsing or mixing it with something.  I really don't want all these ingredients to go to waste!   And I have a bit of spare energy to do something about it now.

People in the house: yeah, what can I say - what I'd like to do is make sure he'll have his mask on, which I'm sure he will, have him measure up and then talk to him in my front yard - you know the way physical guys talk really loudly?  I want him outside while he's doing that 

I still want Yorkshire puddings though, and I didn't make them.  Maybe do them for lunch tomorrow, right after breakfast  

beanielou

I would ditch 2017 stuff.  Shudder.

greenbee

I’m eating 2016 stuff… and possibly things even older, but I decant them so there are no dates. Obviously if there are weevils I throw it out. Careful meal planning Karma, and you’ll get though it. I have buckwheat, rice and chickpea flour to use - and I’m trying to do low carb and low calorie right now. I also have couscous, giant couscous, maftoul, Kashi, buckwheat, oatmeal, oats, red rice, jasmine rice and two kinds of risotto rice, plus whole meal and white flours. The ‘ordinary’ flours get used in baking for others. The rest of the stuff needs planning into my diet carefully.

Chiglepig

I've not told anyone in the house that the stuffing on Chritmas Day was exp. 2019 - I have no idea how it hadn't got used, but I did the shopping thinking there was a box in the cupboard, so that's what we had - MrCP and DD are none-the-wiser. Like @greenbee, if dry ingredients don't have weevils, I done worry. Old self-raising flour gets repurposed as plain flour for sauces.

themadvix

Same here - I’ve just finished using up some red lentils from my mum’s house that were dated (on a post-it on the jar) 2008. Nowt wrong with them and they didn’t even need to be cooked for longer, which I thought they might. If it’s dry goods, they’ve stayed dry and there’s no weevils, they should be fine. You could always offer on Olio if you don’t fancy it yourself - you don’t have to see the person, it can just be left out for them to collect.

Suffolk_lass

I'm the same. My only reservation is weevils, if they are stored in paper - I recently sent my last box of SM bought Tapioca to my Mum - it was expiry dated 2013... and when we changed the fridge I threw out some white Flora (remember that?) vegetable shortening with a 2003 expiry date on it - before we even moved here!

badmemory

Cranberry on Xmas day May 2019.  I had a back up in case it was dodgy but it wasn't.  Although once opened now binned, but so little left I wasn't at all worried.  I think it must have got to the back of the cupboard because last years wasn't OOD.