What’s the oldest thing in your food cupboard?

[Twospaniels]

I have just found pink food colouring whose BB date was Jan 1998. It’s about a year younger than my daughter who is 23.

Probably some sheets of lasagne verdi - about five years old. Comparatively youthful!

Some herbs my sister gave me as an engagement present. That would be 1973 or 4. She gave me a selection, I have saved one or two just for the fun of it.

We had the kitchen done last year so the oldest thing we have is use by Dec 2019.

Before that, when we were clearing out the kitchen, it was some Angel Delight that expired in 2007.

I wasn't living here then, didn't even know DP existed. There's no way I'd ever forget to eat Angel Delight!

Salt, a few years old

Spices, bought on honeymoon 15 years ago

Probably my food processor. We moved house a few years ago so were pretty ruthless about eating all but a box of food.

Asafoetida, 2001. Rarely used except in a dahl recipe. Still ok as far as I'm concerned!

Just moved house so threw out a lot of the geriatric wonders like jarred spices and half-used packets of risotto rice and barley. Still have two sealed “24 month matured” Christmas puddings from 2009 that I swear I’ll break out every year to see whether the extra years maturation makes any difference.

Salt which is about 3 years old.

Homemade damson rum 2008

Baking beans. Use them when baking pastry cases, and they are actual dried beans. Probably about 20 years old.

I made some mince pies the other day. They tasted a bit weird and when I checked the sell by date on the jar it was 2003.. oops

How can salt go off? Gawd I feel as old as Methuselah!

Spices that I brought from my first house when I moved into the current one - 14 years ago.