oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

ok, whats the oldest stuff you have come across recently in your kichen cupboard .......I've just found some packets of Birds custard powder mix marked 'best before end Jan 95' ,tried using it but ended up with a wallpaper like substance :eek: :eek: :eek:

guess a clean out is required :D :D

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

I am safe I have regular clear outs just to be on the safe side. Worst was some pasta sauce that was 16 months out of date and I found that at easter I think. :o

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

Salt!

It's thousands of years old.:D

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

I always used to buy a Christmas pud, but we never got around to eating it. When we sold the house and I had to have a massive clear out, I found ten of them, hiding in a corner!

Never noticed the dates, but I've never bought one since.

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

See that the mother in laws aint made it in yet. Maybe they are burried that far back they cant be seen. :p;):)

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

I dont know and darent look either!!!!

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

I had a massive clear out about 12 months ago. I found a tin of mushroom soup which expired in 1996 and some mincemeat for mince pies. I couldn't read the date on that because the lid of the jar had gone rusty...:o:D

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

think i had a tin of celery soup in there not long back that was 12 ish months out of date, but thats about it

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

10 years??? :eek:

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

Lol..... I'm hanging my head in shame.

Actually, I was laughing at your Celery Soup, I hate celery and find it hard to believe that anyone actually eats it...:D

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

lol, i like it now and again, i obviously didnt eat it for a while though, and havent bought it since :)

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

I love celery soup. :D

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

oooo i find stuff in there especially tins that are years out of date...lol
but they say it should be alright, cuz years ago they didnt even have sell by dates did they?
also .....try looking in your freezer at the back!!
i have a chest freezer, and believe me there might be stuff there that you never knew you had!!!;)

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

With me it's the fridge, I daren't look at the back of that in those dark crevices beneath the mould, whatever it is it lost it's original shape years ago.

I am considering taking the bulb out because whenever I open the door and this thing sees me I'm sure it growls, even nosey parker Cat won't go near it's food if it gets placed in there!

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-imag...Gwynngetty.jpg

http://www.stickergiant.com/Merchant...5/z076_125.gif

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

I've just thrown some cous cous which was a couple of months out of date, I'm pretty good really the cupboards, fridge and freezer get regular checks.

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

Last time I sorted through the store cupboard I threw out tins and packets that were at least 10 years old. The worst was a packet of icing sugar dated 1990 - it was as solid as a house brick.

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

Oh hek Aleks .. even though I had a mass throw out couple of months hence, seem to have three items I put back in cupboards:-

Baking Powder (never bake now !) think may have saved for cleaning purposes, rusty tin .. no sell by date displayed.

Vanilla Essence ... yuk (never opened)... best before October '96 !

Almond Essence ... another yuk .. again no sell by date, but manufacturer General Foods in Banbury, which I think was taken over around 1988 by Kraft !

I feel duly ashamed ... now in the bin.. !

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

lol i sorted out richards first aid box today and i found some clove oil in there and the use by date on it was june 1988, i didnt half laugh thinking about this thread

Re: oldest product in your kitchen cupboard
 

im not too bad i only moved in my house in october last year so nothing as extrmr as best before 95 i think ive got some soup ive had for a few months