Surprises at the back of the kitchen cupboard!!

purpleivy

ebateb wrote: »

I want a spreadsheet now! I'm always replenishing things we haven't even run out of.

I prefer to have the next one waiting for when the current one finishes. It's avoiding the next but one and the one before that in waiting that's the problem!

It makes me look efficient if things don't run out. Especially loo roll!

Former_MSE_Rhiannon

purpleivy wrote: »

I prefer to have the next one waiting for when the current one finishes. It's avoiding the next but one and the one before that in waiting that's the problem!

It makes me look efficient if things don't run out. Especially loo roll!

You've never known true humility until you've had to ask the neighbours/family to borrow bog roll after 4pm on a Sunday :rotfl:

suki1964

MSE_Rhiannon wrote: »

You've never known true humility until you've had to ask the neighbours/family to borrow bog roll after 4pm on a Sunday :rotfl:

Borrowing loo roll implies to me that once finished with it, you washed and returned it :eek:

joedenise

suki1964 wrote: »

Borrowing loo roll implies to me that once finished with it, you washed and returned it :eek:

I do wish we had a "Funny" button:rotfl:

Denise

Former_MSE_Rhiannon

suki1964 wrote: »

Borrowing loo roll implies to me that once finished with it, you washed and returned it :eek:

:rotfl: Well, I did return a BRAND NEW roll of Andrex (toilet roll snob alert) - which is what I meant. I can see the misunderstanding though :eek: :rotfl:

VJsmum

I am still eating a jar of marmite which is BB some time in 2012

It's nearly gone though. I think I will buy a smaller jar next time :rotfl:

Ashley2402

My grandad is trying to see how long he can keep an old Mars Bar. Which is the same age as me. And I am about to turn 25!!! He has had it since 1993!1!

JennyP

On Radio 4, on PM I think, they once had people phoning in with the oldest food item from the back of their cupboards. I think - could have remembered it wrong - that it was something from the 1700s. Don't think they ate it though.

Newly_retired

There is almost certainly nothing wrong with tinned food and items in glass jars or pouches, no matter how old.
Best before dates are just that, best before, and can usually be ignored. I think there is a move to abandon them, to reduce waste.
Some things might lose a bit of flavour but are still safe.

Fresh foods are different, up I still use some items beyond their sell by date, though am more careful about a use by date. I will be very careful to check cooked meats,and soft cheese, for example, but hard cheese can be eaten long after its use by date.

juliamarsh

It was a few years ago admittedly but I found a jar of marmite with a sell by date of March 1994. I ate it and it was perfectly all right. I have eaten tinned food that was years out of date too, which I found in the garage. I take no notice of sell by dates, I use my nose and my taste buds and I never get stomach upsets.