AIBU to sugest you have things in your food cupboards you will never/eat use?

[RoseRedder]

I had the 'tidy' of food cupboards yesterday

I had 8 tins of soup in a flavour I no longer enjoy

8 tins of creamed rice

5 beans and 5 hoops I won't use in the next 2 months (have loads more)

Pears, peaches and several sauces I bought to make stuff like fatijas but never

Instead of binning them I took them to the local foodbank (sally army)

Mentioning this in case anyone fancies doing similiar

[clippityclop]

Tinned potatoes (bleaurk) and 'lite' mayonnaise from a hamper we won at Christmas. Will donate next week, good idea op.

[YoungBritishPissArtist]

I don't. I only have one cupboard for dry and tinned goods and know what's in there.
I buy stuff to donate to foodbanks.

[ILoveWooly]

I am quite organised with cupboards, ours contain lots of tinned tomatoes, rice, pasta, noodles, chickpeas, aduki beans, lentils, split peas, tinned fruit and herbs, spices, stock cubes etc.

However DS and DD's school have a 'food bank' in reception that is collected every Tuesday. We have got into the habit of letting DS and DD chose £1.50 worth of stuff each week and take it in. I do an online shop to avoid extra's we don't need so they choose with me and take it in on a Monday.

This week DS choose (All Sainsbury's basics) 1kg rice, 10 stock cubes, carton of tomatoes, 500g pasta and a chocolate bar. DD choose 3 x rice pudding, 2 x canned peaches and 1 x canned pineapple.

I know it isn't much but it is what we can afford and it helps the DC's to be a bit more aware (they are 11 and 9).

[Rissolesfortea]

My DH found a tub of glace cherries bb2010 in the cupboard so I told him to chuck them. He replied, its a job for the weekend. WTF?

[UniS]

Jelly - It turns out that DS is all but phobic of jelly. Bang go my plans for jelly and ice cream birthday teas.

[WestieMamma]

I use everything in my larder. There's stuff I use for food and stuff that is being used to test the theory of evolution.

[mindthegap01]

As well as food in the cupboards that you won't eat, what about clothes, sheets, towels and toiletries that you won't use? I had a huge clear out and took 2 car fulls to my local homeless shelter, along with all the forgotten tinned food and they were very grateful! Most cities have shelters - if you live in Bristol it's the Julian Trust (www.Juliantrust.org.uk). Think of all that space you'll free up! I now split donations between charity shops and the homeless shelter. Plus they often take stuff that charity shops can't use, like underwear and tea towels. Who hasn't got a gazillion tea towels stuffed in a drawer somewhere in their kitchen??

[boschy]

good point about the homeless shelter mindthegap. I need to sort the airing cupboard out...

[JulietBravoJuliet]

Thank for this. Thanks a bloody lot! Read this thread, went purposefully into the kitchen to sort out my food cupboard and the bloody shelves collapsed :( I now have the entire contents of the cupboard, including a full dinner set and some pots and pans, in the middle of my kitchen floor, and we're just going to have to have a Chinese for tea as I can't get to the cooker... But, on a plus point, I've got LOADS of tins and packets which I'm going to take down to the food bank tomorrow

[NearTheWindmill]

I don't have actual food that will never be used. But I do have a pot of powdered cardamom, enough saffron to sink a battle ship (DS sweetly brought it back from sri-lanka), two pots of cloves, out of date breadcrumbs, etc. and yesterday I opened a pot of baking powder (out of date) and it was crawling with weevils eew. I remember finding them in baking powder as a child - is it prone?

[MothratheMighty]

I donate seriously shabby towels to the local animal shelters, they are always in need and many of my cast offs are too tatty for humans.
I've just donated a lot of kitchen equipment to a local organisation that works with young people setting up home for the first time. If you haven't used something for a couple of years, it's a waste of space.

[mrspremise]

I have a packet of greengage jelly from a South African shop. It just hasn't been the right moment yet and I'm worried it will be vile

[MedusaIsHavingaBadHairday]

I recently did a clearout, and threw out the unused spices that we were given as a wedding present... in 1990 !!!!

However my Mum has tins wayyyy older than that which she insists are FINE...

[BlueberryWoods]

Visiting a friend in NZ a couple of years ago, I saw in her cupboard bottles of food colouring with it's volume specified in fluid ounces. NZ went metric in the 1970's!

[TwelveLeggedWalk]

Dodgy soup and creamed rice - check!

Tried to do the same a few months ago OP, but everything was out of date. Although I do now have some baby foods that my two are two young for that are probably in date, so I should take them along.

[LittleRedDinosaur]

Nothing lurking at the back of our shelves unfortunately but I did find a pot of mustard with a 'Presto' price label on it at my mum's. I think our local Presto closed in the 1980s..... don't think anyone will thank her for that donation

[frogslegs35]

Yanbu and I applaud you for making everyone go look :)

I don't have anything dodgy or unusable, with the exception of Dp's packet of instant unflavoured gelatine
used for making a jellified traditional (to him from his home country) fish and vegetable thingy

I'd like to take the credit for my cupboards being so organised but the reality is this -
Dp is an ex head chef and even the air in our kitchen is on a fecking stock rotation I'm so not joking :)

[MmeLindor]

I have loads that we brought back from Switzerland 2 years ago. Do you think the foodbank would want rillettes and tinned duck something or other? Don't know why I am keeping it.

[FIFIBEBE]

I have a box of little glass bottles of liquid food colouring which my mum used in a cake decorating class in 1966. I use them regularly and can't seem to use them up, everything else is well within date.
Today I was sorting at the local food bank shelves and disposed of a tin of pease pudding which had a BB date of 2011, but that was not the only reason it was binned.

[rocket74]

I have a massive tub of Za'tar and two bottles of pomegranate syrup when I got very excited reading the otto lengi cookbook. Never used them

[hackmum]

Mostly in my case it's herbs and spices. I often have duplicate packets, and also a load of stuff bought optimistically such as coriander seeds in the naive belief that I would do some Indian cooking.

My late father had spices in his spice rack that were so old they preceded the advent of best before dates.

[teenagetantrums]

Nothing in my cupboards that i don't use or is out of date since i split up with my ex years ago, he kept buying herbs and spices and used them only once when he left I sent all the 10 year out of date stuff that he would never throw away to him with one of the kids. Last time i was at his house about 18months ago it was all still there, he is such a hoarder.

My kitchen is so tiny no room for to many tins, shame really i would love a nice big store cupboard.

[VikingLady]

I just took 17 bags of pasta, 4 packet rice and a pack of oat cakes to our local food bank. I couldn't take any of the out of date stuff though, obviously, so we're using them for craft at a local surestart centre!

Frightening, the stuff I bought on offer but don't like!

[specialsubject]

not any more, after several house moves! Everything will get used, fear not. My food clutter days are over!